Trapping Victims’ Fund
Traps are indiscriminate – they catch and kill targeted and non-targeted animals – including family cats and dogs, threatened and endangered species. Animals who survive may suffer severe physical injuries that require costly veterinary treatment and lengthy rehabilitation.
Born Free USA wants to help cover the cost of care for individual animals impacted by cruel traps. Funds are available for specific and immediate emergency veterinary care for companion animals or wildlife impacted by traps and for specific costs associated with rehabilitating and releasing a wildlife trapping victim back into the wild. In the worst of circumstances, funds are also available for funeral arrangements.
Funds are available on a case-by-case basis (to be determined by Born Free) to individuals whose animals are injured or killed by traps or snares. Funding also is available for wildlife rehabilitators, animal shelters, or Good Samaritans who take in and care for a domestic or wild animal victimized by a body-crushing trap or strangulation snare.
Apply for Funds
If an animal in your care has been injured or killed by a trap, you may apply to receive funds.
Roxy
On December 10, 2015, Patti Foy and her husband, Dana, were taking their usual walk with their two dogs along a trail north of the Gilman tunnels in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. They stopped short when they heard their Border Collie mix, Roxy, cry out in pain and alarm…
Max
A woman in Grantville, PA, had been feeding and taking care of an abandoned cat named Max for the previous six months when he suddenly disappeared in April 2013. After three week passed, she finally found Max hanging from the floorboard underneath the mobile home with his front paw caught in a foot-hold trap…
Tréa
In late 2012 we took $320 from the fund to pay for the initial veterinary expenses incurred for the treatment of Tréa, a young black Labrador stray dog from Princeton, MN.
J.J.
In the spring of 2012 we tapped into our Trapping Victims Fund to help Myra Combs, a resident of Mount Airy, NC. Her family’s cat, J.J., was caught in a body-crushing Conibear trap on a neighboring property…
Valiant
Born Free USA sent money from the Trapping Victims Fund Valiant in early 2011 to the human companion of Valiant, a cat from Maryland, who was found dragging a leghold trap that had nearly severed his foot…
Dozer
In early 2011, Rose Kirby’s dog Dozer got caught in a trap on a neighboring property and suffered broken bones, puncture wounds in his leg, and had to have his tail amputated after painfully releasing himself from the trap…
