Since there is no mandatory trap check required – MTFWP merely recommends that trappers check their traplines every 48 hours, trapped animals may linger in traps or snares for several days and nights, while exposed to pain and panic (physiological and psychological trauma), extreme temperatures, hypothermia, and other predators. Injuries range from lacerations, dislocated joints and broken bones. Some animals
have found to chew off their limb that is caught in a trap (“wring off”). Death in traps occurs through strangulation or drowning, freezing or starvation (whatever comes first) before trapper returns to either club them to death, stand on their chest to crush inner organs or shoot them in the head (saves pelts).
Coyote (Canis latrans) died of strangulation in a neck snare
See more images of the unbelievable cruelty trapping for fun inflicts on animals, whether domesticated or wild.
