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Post by 4fur on Dec 15, 2010 21:50:08 GMT -6
Bad deal in Omaha hit the press yesterday. The headline on page 1B of the World Herald reads Lost Dog Returns, Minus a Leg. The W-H article was not too bad ("Mark Langan of the Nebraska Humane Society said setting traps inside the city limits of Omaha is illegal. He said it is rare for a pet to get caught in one of the traps or to even find one.") but TV stations have given the deal more coverage than a serial rapist that raped a murdered a co-ed at a small Nebraska college.
I'm not computer savvy enough to post a link but OMAHA.COM has a video and maybe the article.
The dog had been missing since October 26th! Yes that is October not November!
None the less a bad deal and a black eye for trapping. I was asked about it three times today. Just a reminder to check your traps and be legal so you have the law in your corner.
There is a $1000 reward for arrest and conviction on the person who set the trap.
Any news about it in the rest of the state?
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Post by braveheart on Dec 16, 2010 6:06:50 GMT -6
That was a bad deal in Omaha.I wish they would tell the whole story.Since the mutt was gone for a month that is why it was so thin.The Nebraska Humane Society are bad.They tried to save a burnt cat I am not a cat lover by no means but they paraded that cat around for ever to show they could save it.Then they put it down should of done it in the first place to save it from lingering on.
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Post by furman on Dec 16, 2010 6:31:06 GMT -6
was it even caught in a trap or was it caught in a fence....i'v seen it before...the Humane Society twist it into something it's not just to make us look bad
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Post by LLLTrapper on Dec 16, 2010 6:47:27 GMT -6
I hate seeing non targets in traps and trappers not following the law but I did not see the owner getting a ticket for letting there dog run free. The dog could not have been in that trap that long or it would have been dead. You as a pet owner have a MORAL and LEGAL obligation to your pet to keep it on your property and not running wild. I didn't see that come up in that segment. If you are trapping legal and catch someones dog the owner is the one to blame not the trapper. Fact not fiction. I love dogs but hate people that think because they live outside city limits there dog can run free. That is not the law!! LLL  |
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Post by iowatrapper on Dec 16, 2010 9:04:48 GMT -6
How do they even know its leg got hurt from a trap??  |
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Post by catting on Dec 16, 2010 10:53:28 GMT -6
I agree, I have not read the article on the incident, was there a trap attached to the leg? Anyway while attending ISU one fall while at a landowners farm doing research his dog had been missign for several days and the dog reappeared while we were in his timber. It was a lab and his front leg was severely damaged with paw dragging. Of course being in a college class every one including our proffessor thought it was a trap the did the damage. Long story short the farmers neighbor called and said that a car hit the dog a week ago. I amde sure the whole class new that it was a car and not a trap!
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Post by roosterk0031 on Dec 16, 2010 12:15:11 GMT -6
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Post by hvtrapper on Dec 16, 2010 17:32:44 GMT -6
The article mentioned the cold temperatures. Damage was most likely done through freezing the foot/leg tissue because of lack of circulation.
When was trapping outlawed in Omaha? I knew several trappers that operated inside the city limits when I lived in Lincoln 25 years ago.
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Post by 4fur on Dec 17, 2010 20:06:16 GMT -6
I lived not far from where the dog was caught from the late 80's 'till about '95 and always looked longingly at the Papio green belt but I believe it was illegal back then. I trapped inside Council Bluffs at the time with a permit that was pretty restrictive but caught a lot of really nice fox. News of this died off in the media really fast.  I caught a Dalmatian about 15-20 years ago in weather like last week. 1.75 offset, well swiveled but 4X4. Trap was visible from the road on permission ground and close to my parents house which served as my trapping camp. No dog at dusk but there she was looking at me at 6 a.m. the next morning with frozen toes and pad and a small laceration. The dog was too far from home and I should have 3Sed it, but I put her in my truck and took her home after a while. She just died of old age several years back and the amputated foot didn't slow her down a bit. But the under ground fence the owners purchased kept her from free roaming. I stopped at the vet's and paid $100 of the bill and was thanked by the owners about every time I saw them. They made no bones that it wasn't anyone's fault but theirs. And I didn't disagree with them. 2 Years ago I was trapping the river below my house and found a skinny, friendly lab that followed my truck up the dike. I brought her home and put an ad in the local papers. No response until a grandmother called and her son's family had lost that dog! They came by and it was obvious the dog new them! But, naw, that wasn't their dog. We have that problem a lot around here with both dogs and cats. |
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I caught a Dalmatian about 15-20 years ago in weather like last week. 1.75 offset, well swiveled but 4X4. Trap was visible from the road on permission ground and close to my parents house which served as my trapping camp. No dog at dusk but there she was looking at me at 6 a.m. the next morning with frozen toes and pad and a small laceration. The dog was too far from home and I should have 3Sed it, but I put her in my truck and took her home after a while. She just died of old age several years back and the amputated foot didn't slow her down a bit. But the under ground fence the owners purchased kept her from free roaming. I stopped at the vet's and paid $100 of the bill and was thanked by the owners about every time I saw them. They made no bones that it wasn't anyone's fault but theirs. And I didn't disagree with them.