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Trapper from Fayatteville, PA illegally set a trap and caught a gray jay, a protected species under the Endangered Species Act. He also trapped a lynx illegally and tried to discard the body

Nubbins the cat was caught in a leghold for approx 1 week until the residents of property released her. Nubbins back leg was amputated. Nubbins family was never found; took in by a volunteer.

A Fernley man was cited by state officials for allegedly setting a steel leg trap that caught a cat near a bike path in Cottowood Park. This cat, named Trapper John by NHS vets that treated him, was discovered partially submerged in water and struggling to free himself from the trap. Although hypothermic and injured by the trap, he survived.

A young woman and her dog were cought in leghold traps on the path they walk everyday – she was forced to drag herself and the dog home with the traps that were attached to a log over a kilometre in the snow. Two of her fingers were cut to the bone. The trapper has not been found.

The dog was caught in a trap while on popular state-owned land. She was in the trap for about a minute, was taken to a veterinarian and treated and released.

The cat was caught in a trap, believed to be set by a neighbor and the incident was reported to police. Waiting to here if violations are charged. The attending physician provided intensive care for Jasper for two days, and he survived after much suffering and some seizures.

In a neighborhood, near farms and a railroad track — The cat showed up with injury and taken to veterinarian who deduced that the injury was caused by a trap. The bones, nerves and blood supply were severed. The foot started to die and had to be amputated.

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.