Update: Sadly, this bill failed to make its way through the legislative process in compliance with legislative deadlines.
Bill Description: This bill would ban the use of steel-jawed leghold traps and Conibear traps for recreational or commercial purposes.
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Leghold and Conibear traps are arbitrary and antiquated. These devices case immense suffering as the animals they capture may die of dehydration, starvation, or predation from other animals if the trapper fails to check the device soon after the animal stumbles into it. Furthermore, these devices are not species-selective. They are an indiscriminate killing method that sometimes catches and kills non-target animals, including family cats and dogs and endangered species.