Jul 9, 2025 | Dog, Extreme Animal Cruelty, Illegal Trapping, NM Department of Game and Fish, Roxy's Law, Senate Bill 32 (Roxy's Law), Snare, Trap Injuries, Trap Victim Story, Trap/Snare Incident Report, Trapping Regulations, Waste
By Stephanie Gates/For the Taos News A Valdez couple were devastated to find their beloved husky, whom some in the area referred to as “the Mayor of Valdez,” dead in a wire trap off Broken Arrow Road in early June. The dog, named Zuni, went missing June 3 at...
Nov 27, 2023 | Dog, Extreme Animal Cruelty, Illegal Trapping, Trap Injuries, Trap/Snare Incident Report
Witness Anaruth had seen dog Rodi on the streets before the incident (with all four legs), and then saw him with the injured and ultimately severed leg around October 27th hanging out across from the mail boxes in Rodarte (see yellow highlighted area in attached map...
Apr 2, 2023 | Dog, Extreme Animal Cruelty, Illegal Trapping, NM Department of Game and Fish, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Senate Bill 32 (Roxy's Law), Trap Injuries, Trapping Banned on New Mexico Public Lands, Trapping is Torture, Trapping Regulations
ESPAÑOLA, N.M. — Española Humane workers never know what’s going to come through their doors, but Wednesday brought an unusually rare case. “Almost unrecognizable as a dog,” said Mattie Allen, director of communications for Española Humane. “It’s pretty shocking to...
Mar 1, 2023 | Dog, Extreme Animal Cruelty, Public Safety, Trap Injuries, Trap Victim Story, Wildlife
After his beloved dog Che’s snout was caught in a leg hold trap, Montrealer Frederic Berard started a campaign urging Quebec to heavily restrict or even ban their use. “Che was having a walk as always at my chalet, and he got trapped,” said the...
Jan 23, 2023 | Banned Fur Sales, Commercial Fur Sales, Cruelty, Extreme Animal Cruelty, Fox, Fur Free Fashion, Fur Trade, Legislation, Public Opinion, Waste, Wildlife, Wildlife Ethics
Californians can now officially celebrate the end of fur sales in the Golden State. A statewide ban on the sale of new animal fur products went into effect on Jan. 1, 2023, making California the first state in the U.S. to implement such a ban. Its citizens have waited...
Jan 5, 2023 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Coyote, Cruelty, Dog, Extreme Animal Cruelty, NM State Game Commission, Public Lands, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Senate Bill 32 (Roxy's Law), Trap Injuries, Trap Victim Story, Trapping Banned on New Mexico Public Lands, Trapping on Public Lands, Trapping Regulations, Wildlife Management
Mary Katherine Ray helped outlaw traps in her state Adapted from an interview by Lindsey Botts January 1, 2023 A few years after moving to a remote area of southern New Mexico, I saw a Sierra Club ad in the local paper. I was a longtime member and thought,...
Dec 1, 2021 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Dog, Extreme Animal Cruelty, Illegal Trapping, NM Department of Game and Fish, NM State Game Commission, Public Lands, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Senate Bill 32 (Roxy's Law), Trap Injuries, Trap Victim Story, Trapping Banned on New Mexico Public Lands, Trapping on Public Lands, Wildlife
BY JESSICA JOHNSON / CHIEF GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS OFFICER, ANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO AND ANIMAL PROTECTION VOTERS | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH, 2021 AT 12:02AM Roxy – the beloved dog killed by a neck snare in 2018 while hiking with her family – may not have received...
Nov 29, 2021 | 2021 Legislative Session, Ban Traps on Public Lands, Cruelty, Dog, Extreme Animal Cruelty, Illegal Trapping, Public Lands, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Senate Bill 32 (Roxy's Law), Trap Injuries, Trap Victim Story, Trapping Banned on New Mexico Public Lands, Trapping is Torture, Trapping on Public Lands, Waste, Wildlife
The trapper accused of killing Roxy, a Northern New Mexico cattle dog who was strangled to death in a snare near Santa Cruz Lake, recently was found not guilty. The verdict was immensely disappointing. It feels like justice slipped through the cracks, alongside the...
Nov 21, 2021 | 2021 Legislative Session, Dog, Extreme Animal Cruelty, Illegal Trapping, Public Lands, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Senate Bill 32 (Roxy's Law), Trap Victim Story, Trapping Banned on New Mexico Public Lands, Trapping on Public Lands, Wildlife
Traps and snares are lethal devices that pose a real threat to people, pets and wildlife on public lands. That fact was made tragically clear when a dog named Roxy was strangled to death in a snare at a popular New Mexico recreation area in 2018. Senate Bill 32,...
Nov 13, 2021 | 2021 Legislative Session, Abuse, Ban Traps on Public Lands, BLM Land, Cruelty, Dog, Extreme Animal Cruelty, Illegal Trapping, Public Lands, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Senate Bill 32 (Roxy's Law), Trap Victim Story
Chimayó trapper Marty Cordova was acquitted by a jury this week of 10 counts of illegal trapping, three years after state officials alleged that he set a snare that strangled a dog near Española, his attorney said Thursday. The death of the dog, named Roxy, attracted...
Aug 18, 2021 | Banned Fur Sales, COVID-19, Cruelty, Extreme Animal Cruelty
The Ann Arbor, Michigan fur sale ban passed less than a year after an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in mink on a Michigan fur farm and the infection of a Michigan taxidermist with a COVID-19 variant found in mink. As it turns out, fur...
Aug 18, 2021 | Banned Fur Sales, Cruelty, Extreme Animal Cruelty
ANN ARBOR, MI — The future is fur-free, animal rights activists told Ann Arbor officials Monday night, Aug. 16. City Council responded by voting 10-0 to give the final OK to a new ordinance banning sales of fur products in the city. “This is yesterday’s business,”...
Apr 8, 2021 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Extreme Animal Cruelty, Hiker, Legislation, Letter to the Editor, National Forest, Public Safety, Roxy's Law, Senate Bill 32 (Roxy's Law), Trapping Banned on New Mexico Public Lands, Trapping on Public Lands, Wildlife
I would like to echo the sentiments of another letter and publicly thank the New Mexico Legislature and our governor for outlawing the use of traps, snares and similar devices on public lands in our state. Senate Bill 32, The Wildlife Conservation and Public Safety...
Mar 29, 2021 | 2021 Legislative Session, Ban Traps on Public Lands, Extreme Animal Cruelty, North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, Outdoor Recreation Industry, Public Lands, Roxy's Law, Senate Bill 32 (Roxy's Law), Wildlife, Wildlife Ethics, Wildlife Management
BY CHARLES FOX The governor of Montana recently made news by sadistically – and illegally – trapping and killing a wolf as that state gears up to slaughter more of its native wildlife. Despite protests from numerous professional wildlife managers, the Montana...
Jan 20, 2021 | Ban Traps on Public Lands, Extreme Animal Cruelty, Roxy's Law, Senate Bill 32 (Roxy's Law), Trap Injuries, Trapping on Public Lands, Waste, Wildlife, Wildlife Ethics, Wildlife Management
Marie Curie said, “nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” And yet men driven by fear want to convince you that New Mexico’s wildlife should be feared and that science tells us so. In response to a proposed bill to ban traps on New Mexico public...
Oct 13, 2019 | Banned Fur Sales, Commercial Fur Sales, Cruelty, Extreme Animal Cruelty, Fur Trade
California has made history today by becoming the first U.S. State to ban the sale of animal fur. Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 44 into law, banning all new fur sales and manufacturing in California. The law, which comes into effect in January 2023, has...
