I agree with Phil

Heck NO! Trappers be proud!! You aren't doing anything illegal. Smear some blood on the animals and ride around town with your animals still in the traps....decorating your truck. Tell everyone that asks how it almost chewed its' own leg off before you got up to it and pierced its skull with your .22. Good SHOT!!

The aforementioned was stated in jest.....kind of. I won't get into my thoughts on trapping.....but will add that it's legal....and that trappers (the ones I know) are pretty careful in how they allow the public to see what they do. They do a good job of flying under the radar.....and we'd do well to follow their lead.

Yes he is much a better with suprising them with death, LOL

Please remove this thread, more harm then good

Either their wild animals, or their all pets, we can not have it both ways!!!!

When we start adding human emotions to animals ,we are siding with the antis. The % of highschool kids trapping today will be the downfall of us all. please rethink your position and introduce a kid to trapping.Protrapping ,prohunting.


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Good grief, its getting to the point where I think alot of you people need to hunt with a camera for fear of hurting someones feelings. Trappers kill, so do bow hunters, rifle hunters, etc. Ever trap a mouse in your house? Shed a tear over that? We're not talking about clubbing baby seals here...its largely overgrown rodents and vermin. Trappers do alot of good (in general, theres always a few that don't check traps daily) for the overall ecosystem. With todays fur prices, you can make some decent cash as well.

Just because someone kills a seal when its fur is at a point where someone will buy it doesnt make em heartless,or anything less of a human.There just like farmers slaughtering squab or veal.Its just that nature raised it not the farmer.
Everyone gets the heartstrings pulled sometimes when they dispatch an animal.Thats just the nature of the beast.By the time we are 45-50 yrs old,we know first hand what the animal is feeling.Weve had to swim for our lives,duck bullets,get people out of wrecked cars,and burry dead friends.
The thing that keeps me focussed is seeing what happens in areas with an unhealthy population.I wont trap in areas where the population isnt out of control.The battle scars,mange,etc realy shows.and that is far worse than death by trapper.I would hope someone would do it for me when the time comes.The trapper that realy knows what hes doing hasnt seen a chewed leg in a lot of years.And when he sets,its got the animals welfare in mind.

I agree with the topic creator. Some of the photos seem to have a look of sheer horror on the faces of the animals. I'd rather them pretty much not know what hit them other than have to sit and wait for it.

Hunting, trapping, and fishing ain't a Walt Disney movie. Why don't you conduct a poll of animals:

Would you rather:

1.Get your foot clamped in a trap then get clubbed over the head.

2.Get an arrow in your lungs and spend 30 minutes drowning in your own blood.

3.Get wounded with a shotgun blast then mauled to death by dogs.

I'm sure they would respond that it all sucks.

Get real, guys[:@]

Mabe in a perfect world they would all be in convalescent homes eating applesauce when they get too old.Or when they get tired of looking for food,getting ate by bugs,freezing,etc.They could just put a gun in there mouth and end it themselves.
Fact is,trappers are looked at by the general public as though they love all aspects involved.Especially the kill.I dont know any of those trappers.And any trapper or hunter who causes more pain to an animal than he has to is a sadistic sob. I would just as soon watch people like that drown while i use his life jacket for a seat cushn.

I have been trapping for some time now, and have had thoughts like that. It is natural to feel some sorrow for the animal you have trapped or hunted. But if you dont have any joy it what you successfully hunted or trapped , its just not meant for you. I just look at it as another way of conservation, and I do also enjoy it very much. Maybe since I started at a young age I have a better understanding of why I do it.