“He has terminal lymphoma, so I decided his happy place and my place of solace was in the mountains and I thought let’s get out and go for a walk. Process this and we’ll have a good cry,” the woman said. She didn’t know one of their last walks together would turn out the way it did. “I heard a very loud sound that seemed almost out of context, metal clashing,” she said. “A large game trap came out of the ground hit my dog in the face and took hold of his front paw.” She says her dog was caught in an animal trap that was hidden under the dirt just off the trail. When they were walking along the trail she said they noticed a dead fox close to the walkway and their curiosity veered them in that direction.
When her dog was caught in the trap, she called 911, then animal control, but she said neither responded to the incident. Instead, she was able to dislodge the trap and get her dog to safety on her own. “I hate that I have that fear of going out on my favorite trail with friends, my dog and to worry about that.” While Rad walked away from the incident with trauma to the face, broken teeth, and a bruised paw they said they’re lucky things weren’t worse.