To: The Minnesota State House and The Minnesota State Senate
Dog safe trapping
To prevent further deaths of beloved family pets and hunting dogs, support in this legislative session a bill requiring body grip traps to be set 5 ft. above ground or completely submerged in water.
Why is this important?
Many beloved pet dogs are being senselessly killed on public lands by legally set body grip fur harvesting traps in the state of MN. Hundreds of thousands of hunters and people recreating with dogs on our public grounds are being terrorized by a minority of trappers using body grip traps. If regulations were adjusted to require body grip traps to be set 5 ft. above ground or completely submerged in water, trappers could continue to successfully harvest furs and the vulnerability of dogs would be considerably reduced. This is being done to the benefit of dogs and trappers in neighboring states and Canadian provinces.