Help end steel jaw traps!

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Help end use of the brutal and archaic steel jaw leghold trap

 

HR 1800, a bill to end use of conventional steel-jawed leghold traps on

animals in the United States, has been introduced by Representatives Nita Lowey

(D-NY) and Christopher Shays (R-CT). The legislation has 60 cosponsors, but

needs greater support.

 

Leghold traps slam shut with bone-crushing force on the limbs of their

victims, tearing ligaments and tendons, severing toes and causing excruciating,

long-drawn out pain. A captured animal may chew off his own leg in a desperate

attempt to escape the intense pain. The traps are notorious for catching and

maiming non-target animals including dogs, cats, songbirds, raptors and fawns.

Children have been caught in these traps too. And the traps are unnecessary

because myriad less cruel alternatives are available.

 

The World Veterinary Association, the American Veterinary Medical

Association, and the American Animal Hospital Association have condemned use of

steel

jaw leghold traps as inhumane. According to a US Fish and Wildlife Service

study conducted at Yale University, 78% of the American public is opposed to use

of leghold traps.

 

The European Union (EU) banned use of the barbaric steel jaw leghold trap so

that 88 countries now prohibit their use. Nobly, the EU went a step further;

the EU law also prohibits import of furs from countries that use steel jaw

traps. On December 11, 1997, in response to this European law, the US Trade

Representative reached an “Understanding†with the EU in which the US agreed

to

end use of “all jaw-type leghold restraining traps†by 2002 on muskrat and

nutria and to phase out use of “conventional steel-jawed leghold restraining

traps†by 2004. Adoption of HR 1800 would ensure that the US fulfills its

commitment to the EU.

 

Please ask your Representative to cosponsor HR 1800 to end use of this

abominable device.

 

Letters may be addressed to:

 

 

> The Honorable______________________

> House of Representatives

> Washington, DC 20515

>

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