Jan 2, 2017 | Companion Animal, Cruelty, Dog, Illegal Trapping, Trap Injuries
Article in Making Tracks, Winter 2016 Issue In August 2016, APNM’s Cruelty Case Manager was alerted to an extreme animal cruelty case in which two missing dogs in Taos were found severely injured, caught in cruel leg-hold traps on a neighbor’s property. Both were...
Dec 8, 2016 | Companion Animal, Dog, Hiker, Illegal Trapping
Just 80 feet from the road to Sandia Crest. In view of a picnic table and a popular hiking trail. And in the path of a family pet named Cub. This past weekend, Cub stepped into a metal leg-hold trap. Read the article in the Albuquerque Journal
Oct 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
Five Years Later, Cruel Indifference Continues Over the course of the 2015-2016 trapping season, Born Free USA conducted a follow-up investigation to Victims of Vanity: our landmark investigation in 2011 that exposed the dark, brutal world of trapping. Since the...
Oct 14, 2016 | Lethal control
Livestock owners traditionally use various non-lethal and lethal methods to protect their domestic animals from wild predators. However, many of these methods are implemented without first considering experimental evidence of their effectiveness in mitigating...
Oct 14, 2016 | Lethal control
From their review of the prevailing research into lethal and non-lethal predator control practices in North America and Europe, an international trio of environmental scientists has determined that the science behind the reviewed research is not very scientific. In...
Oct 14, 2016 | Lethal control
A new study finds little evidence that lethal predator control does anything to help ranchers. A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment found that there’s little scientific evidence that killing predators actually...
Jan 14, 2016 | Audio, Dog, Public Lands
Kathleen McDonald tells her story about when her dog was trapped and she was injured in the Lincoln National Forest. It is impossible to think of the places we love in the same way when a hidden trap could be anywhere. Animal News Hour with Kathleen McDonald...
Jan 30, 2015 | Audio, Cruelty, Dog
David Forjan, the host of Animal News Hour, recounts his own heart-pounding story of having to rescue his dog Annie from a trap and how he was also horribly injured—a story that is all too common in New Mexico. Animal News Hour with David Forjan...
