At least three dogs were killed by body-crushing traps last year in New York. With your help, though, we can make our woods a little less dangerous.
Thanks to your emails this summer, The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)Â proposed regulations that wisely ban these lethal traps within 100 feet of public trails. But, unfortunately, leghold traps are still permitted, and a dog being walked could still be injured or maimed. And one proposed method of protecting dogs is to elevate body-crushing traps, which can result in injured and dead animals, including cats, dangling from trees.
Please send a quick email comment on these regulations to the DEC, asking that the 100-foot buffer zone be made permanent, leghold traps be added to it, and elevation of traps not be permitted.
Please enlighten me
I was under the impression that there are state regulations imposed by the fish and wildlife commission that already restrict the use of all types of traps. These restrictions deal with placement on both public and private property. Please enlighten me as to how domestic dogs could be caught. How is it that the present laws are deficient? What is this buffer zone now?