Only to an extent, re your final sentence.ezzy333 wrote:...You just hit on the main problem. People have been taking traps for years. That is why no one wants signd put up because hunters as well as other people take the traps. The problem starts with us.
The problem starts with the folks who set traps with zero regard for location, legality, non-target harm and montoring of the traps.
Traps, in other words, being used for other than the taking of pelts.
Traps, often cheap snares, being used for control of deer predators.....snares that by their nature and design, catch by location more than anything which can be a teaching experience.
I do not wish to be connected in the collective WE, The Hunters or Whatever...with those selfish or agenda-blinded folks, in any shape or fashion.
But, why anyone would want to steal a trap is beyond me.
Were one of my dogs to die or be injured in a trap then destroy it I would as a weak individual I am.
Were I to find a trap, dependent upon where it was and what kind was, I would simply set it off....if it offered little possibility for dog harm then I would simply leave it be and head out of Dodge....as I have done both in Kansas and Iowa.
Trappers....need to police their own ranks and own up to the bad actors in their midst.
Dog owners...need to respect the honest Trappers and accept the consequences when a dog's injury or worse may demand a bad action in memory of a good dog.