CAUGHT IN A TRAP
Sir, —Referring to the caso reported in Saturday's Herald concerning a dog caught in a rabbit trap, the easiest and best way to free dogs and cats from theso traps is to obtain a pieco of wood about three inches wide and one inch thick/and of sufficient length to obviate the operator 'getting too near the animal. By pushing down the spring with this wood the animal is freed and runs away, if ablo to. I have never known a dog to attack its liberator. The excruciating pain caused by the' jaws of the trap makes it snap, when it is in the trap, at anyone coming near, even its owner. If the wooden staff bo narrower it is apt to slip off just when the trap jaws are half open, and this will givo the animal increased pain. This case should make consumers of trapped rabbits think of the horriblo torture endured by rabbits when caught, for hours beforo being released and killed. | A.M.P.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21251, 3 August 1932, Page 15
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