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A pet cow got caught in a body grip trap left for wildlife set in a pasture. The cow experienced permanent injury.

A pet cat got caught in a body grip trap left for wildlife in a marsh. The cat died as a result.

A cat got caught in a foothold trap left for wildlife on a compost/garbage site. The cat required vet care and experienced permanent injury as a result.

A cat got caught in a body grip trap left for wildlife. The cat required vet care and experienced permanent injury as a result.

An otter got caught in a body grip trap left for other wildlife set in a body of water. The otter died as a result. (Seizure Tag A67732).

A pet dog got caught in a body grip trap left for wildlife set over near frozen body of water. The dog died as a result.

A girl found a cat named Barney in a conibear trap and immediately took him to a vet. The trap had crushed his spine and organs and he had to be euthanized – the trapper was found and is currently under investigation.

Mentioned in passing in a Letter to the Editor, “a friend’s dog got caught in a snare trap up Hurricane Creek” on public land.

A cat caught in a steel-jaw trap on the city’s west side was euthanized by the Oshkosh Area Humane Society to put it out of its misery from a badly broken back leg. “There was no salvaging that cat. He was in horrible, horrific pain,” said Joni Geiger, director of the animal shelter. Police were called by a resident who found the cat in the trap in his yard. The trap did not belong to the person who called police. It was the type of trap someone would use to trap small game in the wild. Police have not cited anyone and they don’t have any suspects.

A retired sled dog survived with minor injury the crushing jaws of a conibear trap set less than 10 feet off a trail near town. A woman who was training a second dog team for her kennel partner (signed up to run the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in March) noticed that Lucy had broken her chain and was following the team. The woman let the dog run loose and then, less than two miles from residential areas, heard Lucy start screaming. Lucy was roughly seven feet off the road, lying on her side still screaming, having stumbled into a trap set in the crook of a tree root. Slammed on her neck was a large conibear trap. The woman couldn’t free Lucy from the trap and set off with the team to get help. Lucy spent more than an hour in the trap before the kennel partner and a third friend arrived with bolt cutters and released her. A Fish and Game technician said the trap was legally set but questioned the experience of the person who set it.