Leghold trap
Free a Pet From A Trap
Warrior llama chases coyotes off
Llamas: Brave Protectors

McGee recovering after being trapped in his home neighborhood.

McGee was trapped near home. His Story


Luna was trapped in  Southern Nevada. Her story

Carol and Duke. Duke got trapped which started TrailSafe.
Gretchen and Gauge
Gretchen and Gauge. Gretchen was snared and almost died in a South Reno park. Their story

TrailSafe Nevada logo
Trailsafe is a grassroots Nevada citizen network.
We advocate protection and humane treatment for pets and wildlife.

juvenile bobcat

When: January 31, 2012 6PM -9PM
Where: Government Center – Pueblo Room
500 Grand Central Pkwy
Las Vegas, NV 89155
Email: mldprd24@yahoo.com -- Paul Dixon, Chairman. Tracy Truman vice-chairman.
Meeting of the Clark County Advisory Board to Manage Wildlife. Be there if you possibly can and stand up for humane treatment of animals. Should trapped animals be dragged around by the trap on their foot face to face with a menacing dog over and over again? What's your opinion?

TrailSafe Nevada

 

See the Ongoing Talking Points. TrailSafe testified yet again, this time to the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners Dec. 3 in Reno. There will be several more meetings to gather public input before a final trap regulation is voted upon by the Wildlife Commission. Watch this space for dates of upcoming meetings where we will very much request your input!!

Meanwhile, you can send support letters to info@trailsafe.org anytime. We will make sure the appropriate officials see your messages.

Click here for Ongoing Talking Points

Click here for Suggested Trap Permit Requirements

Click here for Jeff DeLong's Reno Gazette Journal Coverage of Nov. 9 Reno Trap Regulation Committee hearing.

Click here for news about new Legislative Sunset committee: A new legislative subcommittee took aim Thursday at the possible elimination of 35 state boards and commissions, including the state Wildlife and Ethics commissions. Public will have input with this committee as each Board or Commission is reviewed. Stay tuned!

Links to emails and documents received by NV Dept. of Wildlife. About 50 supporting TrailSafe. About 4 supporting trapping status quo.
Thank you Born Free USA, Nevada Humane Society, SPCA of Northern Nevada for sending alert out to your lists!!! Be patient; pages take a while to load.

http://ndow.org/learn/com/committee/trapping/public_comments_as_of_110411.pdf
as of 2:30PM

http://ndow.org/learn/com/committee/trapping/public_comments_as_of_110911.pdf
as of 10AM

http://ndow.org/learn/com/committee/trapping/public_comments_as_of_110911_cont.pdf as of 11:30 AM

Click here for Some Outstanding Messages from Supporters - Get Inspired

 

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Click here for our Clark County Coalition.

Click here to see Support Letters and Documents from our hearing before Wildlife Commission on Sep. 23, 2011.
Scroll down pages of Correspondence. There are 42 letters supporting TrailSafe.
#6 - Letter to Wildlife Commission from Senator Manendo on SB226
#6 - SB 226 Regulation Benchmarks
#6 - SB 226 - Enrolled legislation approved by Governor
#6 - Trapping Regulation Framework
#6 - SB226_support material
#6 - Trapping Support Material - Correspondence - part 1 (7 Letters)
#6 - Trapping Support Material - Correspondence - part 2 (27 Letters)
#6 - Trapping Support Material - Correspondence - part 3
(8 Letters)

Click here for May 2, 2011 audio interview with Brian Bahouth. "Audio: Trapping Lobby Flexes Muscle – the Denuding of SB 226"

Click here for June 9, 2011 audio interview with Brian Bahouth. "Audio: An Interview with Executive Director of TrailSafe Nevada Trish Swain" - discussing current status of our action.

Skunk suffering at Cottonwood Park March 2010
Gone but never forgotten, Li'l Stinker
suffering for hours on end until he was shot in the head.


Trap Incidents : Emails, stories and articles: pets caught in traps, and traps set in congested areas.
Please send in your stories and pictures!

Gretchen and Gauge
Gretchen (the puppy in front) was snared Jan. 18, 2012 in South Valley Sports Complex (a very busy park/playground) in South Reno. She almost died. Click here for full story.

 

Trapper Jane recovering at Nevada Humane Society
Trapper Jane trapped in a residential area Aug. 22, 2010. She was treated at Nevada Humane Society where two toes on her left paw were amputated. She recovered well; today has full agility and lives with TrailSafe Director Trish.
Full story

 

 

 

Watch this spot for upcoming events. We plan a demonstration on how to open a trap plus a showing of the video "Lords of Nature" which illustrates the importance of predators in the ecosystem. Details soon to follow.
coyotes

 

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Comments from the over 500 emails received for this campaign. (total now in June over 560)
Click here to see text version of these comments. (.pdf file)

 

CLARK COUNTY ANIMAL ADVOCATES  IN COALITION WITH TRAILSAFE

We are so lucky to have a coalition of experienced, highly capable animal activists working on trapping issues in Clark County. They will negotiate trap boundaries for Clark County. Please contact them: let them know if you can help the effort, to report a companion animal trapping, or with any other trapping-related issue. They are:

Karen Layne
Email: lvvhs@cox.net
(702) 434-2009 Office
(702) 354-8911 Cell (for trapping calls)
www.lvvhumane.org
Stacia Newman
Email: politicsforanimals@yahoo.com 
Gina Greiseng
Email: nevadavoters@nv4a.org
www.nv4a.org

Ongoing Talking Points

If we exempt govt. agents, anyone with a permit, private pest control companies, waterways and private property from trap regulations, who, exactly will not be allowed to trap? How would the current situation change at all??

Having said that, it must be said that private pest control companies present the best case. They carry liability insurance. They have ID on their traps. They set proper size traps for limited purposes, for limited periods of time. They have commercial permits, different from untrained householder getting a depredation permit. They can be held accountable for any injuries they cause.

The smallest acceptable distance from a residence for traps to be set is 1000 yards, not feet. We believe this will be accepted. Commissioner Robb recommended it. If logic prevails, the boundaries should be the Firearms Congested Areas of Washoe County with no quibbling over yards or distance from residences. There are maps of the Congested Areas. The Congested Areas grow as our community grows. As we said since the beginning, if one can't discharge a firearm in a congested area, why should one be able to set an indiscriminate dangerous trap?

 ID/registration on each and every trap. TrailSafe has legal reason to believe the Wildlife Commission can set this regulation. They will check with their D.A. I suspect this will be difficult to achieve. Yet how can we even claim traps are regulated unless each trap can be traced to the person who set it? Ideally the Commission will endorse this provision and find a legal way to make it happen.

96-hour trap visitation shortened to 24-hour. Possibly this could be required in congested areas even if not required in rural areas. Likewise, if this has to be a Legislative bill, ideally the Wildlife Commission will introduce and endorse the measure.

Trap permits should be harder to obtain. Current permit process makes no demands on applicants. Anybody can get a trap permit any time. For free. See TrailSafe proposed permit application.We are researching the legal means to this end.

Instead of exemption to use body-gripping traps, TrailSafe recommends NDOW and WS promote non-lethal, humane, co-existence strategies as described on their website. TrailSafe would happily cooperate and assist in public education efforts. Coyotes are the targets for most "nuisance" trapping, therefore there are many strategies for co-existing with coyotes.

Many complain about mice, rats, moles, voles. They claim they need body-gripping traps for these creatures. (Mouse traps are exempt from the trap regulation.) But if coyotes were allowed to live, we would have natural rodent control!!! Let them take their rightful, useful part in nature's design.

TrailSafe does not agree that private property should be exempt from trap regulations. There are too many instances of irresponsible trapping by private property owners. This exemption will not protect public safety. An exemption might make sense for fenced private property but certainly not for unfenced properties. See above for possible exemption of pest control companies. If depredation permits were harder to get, this might be a more palatable exemption. A possible solution to the private property question: property zoned Agricultural will be exempt from trap regulation, but not other private properties.

TrailSafe does not agree that waterways should be exempt. There is massive literature demonstrating humane methods of working with beavers and muskrats. Some of the most horrendous pet trappings caused by body-crushing traps set in waterways. See our incident reports.

The public should have the right to disturb a trap when that trap poses a clear danger to people or companion animals. Not adequately discussed yet.

Any traps set anywhere should be clearly marked so hikers and neighbors can avoid them. Likewise, this needs further discussion.

Trappers to be liable for any damages caused by their actions. Trappers should seek and pay for veterinary help for companion animals caught in their traps. There should be stiff penalties for non-compliance.

Why should any creature suffer when humane, non-lethal management is proven effective and favored by the public. Thousands of Nevadans do not know trapping continues in the 21st Century. When they find out, they object to trapping for humane and public safety reasons.

501.100  Legislative declaration

Nevada Wildlife Law (emphasis mine)
"1. Wildlife in this State not domesticated and in its natural habitat is part of the natural resources
 
belonging to the people  of the State of Nevada."

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