Trapping Incident #52

Summary:

A woman was walking her dog, Fi, near the rail trail by the Ainsdale Golf Course in the middle of the afternoon. She let Fi loose to run free in a field near a wooded area, about 100 meters from the trail. “The next thing I heard was her screaming and jumping around with a trap on her head,” she said. She ran over to Fi, who was flailing in pain with the trap crushing her muzzle and throat. “Her eyes were bulging and her tongue was out,” she said. “It was the worst thing I’ve ever seen.” Unable to open the trap — she cut herself trying — the woman flagged down a passing snowmobiler who was also unable to free the dog. Fi died while still in the trap, so the woman took her to Kincardine Veterinary Clinic to have them remove it. “She died right in front of me. They had to use bolt cutters to get it off of her neck.” She suspects Fi was led to the trap by bait hidden under a white bucket that was found nearby.

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