Humane trapping essays

Humane trapping essays Humane Trapping is the capture of a animal without pain. Humane trapping is really up to the trapper. If you have a good skilled trapper who respects animals, the animals he traps will feel little or no pain. If you have a trapper who doesnt care about the animals the animal will probably feel excruciating pain. The animal rights activists videotape the animals that the bad trappers catch. Trapping is the capture of animals by means of a physical system or device. A trap may be designed to kill, injure, or preserve the captured animal; those that use nooses are also known as snares. Frequently the trap makes use of a lure such as food (including live animals) or-particularly for insects-a species-specific sexual attractant. Humane traps really aren't all that humane! Surprised? You shouldn't be if you have read this far. The fact is that so called "live traps" can really be quite cruel. For example, a squirrel trapped in a box trap (we don't call them live traps because it is too vague a term; in fact footholds and sometimes snares are live traps). Squirrels often panic and will actually die from fright in the cage. Of course we haven't even mentioned the situations where squirrels freeze to death in the winter cold. So what would be more humane? A kill trap placed over the squirrel den opening, where it has a reasonable chance to die quickly? Or a box trap where it has the chance to die from exposure? Foot-hold traps are more selective than we are telling you. In my prospective, every trap is ultimately non-selective. That is every trap can potentially capture a non-target animal. Just like every hunter can potentially shoot an unwanted target. However, the problem isn't as bad as animal rights activists would like you to believe. They conveniently forget that the trapper is half of the trapping equation. animal rights activists consistently ignore how the experience of the trapper impacts the effectiveness ...