Dog owners/traps killing pets

[Lee Borgersen]

Dog owners say traps are killing their pets, seek changes to laws.


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http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/221880/group/Outdoors/

[deadeye]

I wonder....  Is this the same John Reynolds who caused the DNR to take down there web site blog many years ago.  I remember some one from Merrified with the same name being very (maybe I'm being nice here), very abusive to anyone who didn't share his view.  He was mostly upset because the DNR didn't let him have his invasive species carp ponds.   Hummmm.



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Trapper loses dog

John Reynolds, 58, of Merrifield, Minn., is a longtime hunter and trapper who was trapping fox on public land near Emily, Minn., in December with his 50-pound springer spaniel, Penni, when his dog disappeared.
He later found her dead in a baited body-gripping trap set by another trapper.
“She meant the world to me,” he said.
The trap was legally set, so Reynolds didn’t report the incident. But he has established an online petition (see http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/mark-dayton-governor-minnesota/) to outlaw body-gripping traps on public land. He wants them allowed only underwater (for beavers, muskrats and otters) or 5 feet off the ground, so dogs can’t get caught.
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[ray634]

I wonder if he used "killer traps" when he was trapping, and if he ever caught someone's pet in his trap.

[0ly1]

Soon cars will be illegal.

Why (since we have humanized dogs) don't they worry about the coon or bobcat.

We are getting closer to tyranny, and farther from LIBERTY!!!

[GRIZ]

something to me has sounded fishy about this story from the get go an now it just dawned on me what it was.

is a longtime hunter and trapper who was trapping fox on public land near Emily, Minn., in December with his 50-pound springer spaniel, Penni, when his dog disappeared.

Now I have some reading to do as it used to be against the law to trap with a dog by side unless on a leash. It may have gotton changed but I'm going to find out.

[GRIZ]

I just checked and couldn't find anything about trapping with a dog other than mink may not be taken with the aid of a dog. So am guessing that the law has been dropped.

Still the person obviously was not in control of the dog to begin with, either that or the person was not paying attention to the dog. Many are quick to blame traps or trappers yet not many ? the responsibility of the pet owner or lack of.

[Randy Kaar]

Yea Deadeye, I would bet it was him. Remember what a whiner he was at the DNR site,
And his grass carp farm.....

randy