I personally do not wish to trap but dont criticise others if they wish to--if they check traps regularly and humanely. people who trap and then goof around and dont get to the traps in a timely fashion sicken me. if left too long the animal will resort to chewing off its own limbs in some cases. the animals dont understand that perhaps some one will be there soon to end the suffering , they only understand survival.
i know of people who trap coon to "teach" their coon dogs with , i was throughly sickend when the guy explained once how he would let the dogs have the coon (in a pen) for a time and then when the coon wore down too much he would seperate the coon from the dogs until the coon had revied some and then give the coon to the dogss agin, he did this until he tired of it or the dogs finally ended the coons suffering from what i understand, he told me this in his own words.

also as this guy lived near me , i had been told by his friend that he had been baiting my cats to his home and then killing them. this young man gets off on hurting animals and killing them, domestic and wild. any way one day we kept smelling something dead near our home and i could`nt find it(although we suspected it was under our house where we could`nt see it), but after a couple days i came home from work to find the body of one of my missing cats lying in the yard. the smell had apparently been the cat under the house and a young pup we had had drug it out from under the house. the cats hind feet were gone, no other damage except a busted stomach from bloating from death that we could see, just two missing hind feet. i suspected that my neighbor had trapped the cat and it chewed its own feet off anf crawled home (under our house where it stayed) to die. my husband and uncle didnt beleive it was trapped but no one has ever been able to explain it`s two missing feet, but with no other aparent damage i can think of nothing else that it could have been. i suspected my neighbor may have been useing my cats for dog (training) bait also. i can`t swear to it and did`nt see it but you just need to know the twisted freak to understand where this thinking comes from.

any way as i said, i dont condem trapping, it to is a source of hunting and the main purpose is to preserve the hides in the best way possible, which could`nt always be if taken in a hunt.
also one of the softest most beautiful things i ever felt was a beaver pelt, i would have never known how luxourious they were if it had`nt been trapped and made into a pelt.
but if you do decide to trap please be considerate to the life inside those traps and dont delay when its time to check the traps. thanks, annie.