Feb 28, 2018 | Cruelty, Dog, Fox, Hiker, Public Lands, Trap Injuries, Trapping on Public Lands, Wildlife
Readers share their experiences with traps in N.M.’s wilds and call for action ABQ Journal February 27, 2018 Click for larger image
Feb 27, 2018 | Cruelty, Public Lands, Trapping on Public Lands, Waste, Wildlife
Trapping, while legal in many parts of the country, is a vulgar activity. The traps cause unbelievable suffering, including ripped flesh, broken bones, crushed pelvises, swelling and blood loss. The most insidious traps are the steel-jawed leghold traps. The...
Feb 15, 2018 | Audio, Cruelty, Dog, Hiker, Public Lands, Trapping on Public Lands
WARNING: DISTURBING AUDIO OF SCREAMING DOG CAUGHT IN STEEL JAW TRAPMar 3, 2017 | 2017 Legislative Session SB 286, Cruelty, Legislation, Public Lands
By David J. Forjan / Tularosa Resident Friday, March 3rd, 2017 In the six decades I’ve been on this planet, American society has become continuously more violent. Movies, TV shows, video games. Mass shootings at churches, temples, mosques, schools. No one single event...Jan 21, 2017 | Cruelty, Dog, Editorial, Endangered Species, Legislation, Public Lands, Wildlife
There is a trio of wildlife bills proposed this legislative session that would cost the state – and thus taxpayers – nothing in cash while earning them the moral high ground when it comes to respecting New Mexico’s wildlife and ecosystems, which belong to those same...
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...
Oct 14, 2016 | Cruelty
Steel-jaw leghold traps, widely criticized for being indiscriminate and inhumane, are presently prohibited or significantly restricted in the majority of countries around the world-but not the United States. According to research released today by the Library of...
Jul 15, 2015 | Abuse, Cruelty, Dog, Trap Injuries
A dog found walking on exposed bone stumps of missing back legs is thought to be a victim of a bear trap. Watch the KOAT news segment here: http://www.koat.com/article/dogs-former-owner-arrested/4477482 For more information on Cub please visit...
Mar 5, 2015 | Abuse, Cruelty, Dog, Trap Injuries
https://www.thedodo.com/miracle-dog-expose-trap-horror-1022299525.html Every year on public and private land throughout the country, thousands of animals suffer and die slow deaths after becoming ensnared in leghold traps, considered by some to be one of the cruelest...
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...
Sep 16, 2011 | Cruelty, Dog, Legislation, NM Department of Game and Fish, Trap Injuries
The founder of a Santa Fe animal sanctuary had three dogs each missing one leg. A woman from San Cristobal told of her dogs — and her fingers — being caught in animal traps. They were two of about 75 people from all over the state who traveled to Albuquerque on...
Sep 14, 2011 | Bobcat, Cruelty, Dog, Public Lands, Wildlife
These letters appeared in the Albuquerque Journal on September 13, 2011 THERE IS nothing “more humane” about the way trapping is done. Catching any and all animals that happen by a trap doesn’t help or take care of our wildlife. Animals left in traps for hours or days... 
