Friday, August 13, 2021 | 2 a.m
Tessa Archibald made some excellent points in her guest column on August 9th: “Trapping has no place in a stressed ecosystem.”
This activity is primarily recreational and causes prolonged, widespread suffering in animals. It’s an untenable endeavor that wildlife authorities continue to promote by allowing trap review time to be 96 hours instead of the more humane 24 hours that some other states have introduced.
Attempts by conservationists and concerned citizens to reduce the time it takes to test traps have failed in the past; Meanwhile, both targeted and non-targeted animals have fallen victim, including pets. Once caught, they lie helpless with pain and fear, with no food or water and exposed to the elements and other predators. It is a terrible fate.
One only has to look at the archaic torture devices to see that they belong in the past, not in today’s world, in which we recognize all too well that our ecosystem is interdependent and that every organism has its place and its function.
