Comments on: Second Lynx Killed in Northern Maine

By: Dear fur wearing vegan-environmentalist, you’re not fooling anyone « About Quality Cedar

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:05:37 +0000

[...] 2007 for allowing Canadian lynx deaths (an already stressed species,) inadvertently, in fur traps. Here is a report on this from Trapping Today, of which the fur industry’s contempt for the Endangered Species Act [...]

By: Mike St. Clair

Mike St. Clair — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:41:24 +0000

this whole lynx thing is the stupidest thing I have ever heard we were up in the Forks in Maine this week and were hunting and trapping we witnessed 3 different set of lynx tracks during the week we were there and why are we being restricted in this state when other states are allowed to trap them !!! It makes no sense!!!

By: Trapper

Trapper — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:21:20 +0000

PAtrapper – notice that this 5 day check law only applies to conibear traps, which kill an animal almost instantly. So whether a trapper checks them twice a day or once a month, the animal will have been dead since the moment after it was caught. I personally don’t feel that any check requirement is necessary for killer traps, especially with the new ‘elevated set’ rules. I have held a few animals alive in a conibear in warm weather on the ground, but never in an elevated set. The 5-day check law for conibears is an old rule that was around when ground sets with small conibears were legal (just 2 years ago), and I don’t think it’s necessary anymore, but I’m sure it will stay (or be shortened, if the animal rights groups can help it).

I think checking your traps often is a very important part of responsible trapping when an animal is being held alive in a trap. The requirement in Maine is a 24-hour check for foothold traps.

That being said, there is a big difference between a hobby trapper and a full time guy who earns part of his income trapping. Guys who are running 150-300 traps in some western states cannot possibly check every trap every day. However, they still check regularly, and use quality traps with good modifications, offset and laminated jaws, good swiveling, etc., and can hold an animal for 2-3 days with no more paw discomfort than it had on the first day.

We’re dealing with wild animals. You are right, we owe it to them to be humane and responsible. At the same time, we also need to consider that they do not think or feel quite like humans, and treating them as such may be a bit ‘overkill’.

By: Judge Rejects Request to Stall Trapping in Lynx Habitat in Maine : Trapping Today

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:04:24 +0000

[...] request to cut the trapping season short in lynx habitat came after a second lynx was killed in a trap in northern Maine, prompting arguments that the state’s trapping laws didn’t do enough [...]

By: PAtrapper

PAtrapper — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:06:00 +0000

This pains me to think that traps are going possibly 5 days without checking. I remember having a line in PA between when I was 13 and 17 and checked them every morning before school and every evening after school. You owe it to the animals you are after, with 5 days being absurd.

By: ARemington

ARemington — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:10:18 +0000

Looks like an awful battle, there. Ingnorance run rampant and lies all over by the
activists. Men trying to make a living while activists are determined to run things
based on a lie, still. Someday soon I hope it will sink in, the destruction their
agenda has caused and will help us restore what we are trying to hang on to.

If only so much energy and time where put toward your fellow-man instead of
against him.