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Kato

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This afternoon I had the horrible experience of finding my dog in a coyote snare. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: I don't often lose it, but I sure did today. :mad: :mad: :mad:

It was no more than two hundred yards from my front door....

Just after lunch I noticed one of the dogs was missing. It was my German Shepherd, Zelda. This is literally the best dog I have ever owned, and she is never out of calling range... ever! She had been missing for about a half an hour when I noticed she didn't come, so I got on the quad and went looking. I stopped at the neighbours because they had some guys working on a shed, and I hoped she had heard them, but she wasn't there. He told me that a deer had been hit on the road yesterday, and went into the other neighbour's land by the creek, so maybe she was down there. He also told me that a guy had come to his yard and asked permission (which he did not give) to set up some coyote snares. That scared me! The land she went onto belongs to another neighbour who is one of those guys who feeds deer, and names them, and considers them pets. He gave permission for the snares, but not on our side of the creek, just farther away. HA! Like that mattered to the so and so with the snares. :x :x :x

It only took me about five minutes before I found her. She was lying on her side, with the snare around her neck. I thought she was dead. When I ran to her and pulled the spring back to loosen the wire, she sat up. I couldn't believe it! The problem was that I couldn't get the wire off her neck. It was all I could do to hold the spring closed. Somehow I managed to pull my cell phone out of my pocket, put it on speaker, speed dial my husband and drop it on the ground so I could get help. It took about fifteen minutes, but it felt like an hour. He got the wire off her, and we tossed her into the truck and hit it for the vet's. Later in the day I tried to close this spring, and couldn't budge it. Adrenalin is a powerful force.

I haven't been this upset over something in a very long time, and if the snare guy had been there I probably would done something that would have landed me in court.

We got her to the clinic, and they had IV's waiting for her. When they shaved around her neck, there was a deep groove dug into her neck, and it was bruising already. She had bloodshot eyes, and just sat there and hung her head. She was having some trouble breathing, but the steroids in the IV should help take the swelling down. When we left here there, she was just lying on her side and puffing. She must have been in some terrible pain. Now we have to wait until morning to see if she makes it, and if there is permanent damage. I think the only reason I found her alive is that she is such a big strong dog, with a thick coat to help dull the sharpness of the wire, and that she is obedience trained, and didn't panic when it tightened around her neck.

I don't know if there are people here who use these devices to trap coyotes, but if there are, they should look and see the suffering it can cause. They say they are instant kill, but they are not! There was nothing instant about what happened to Zelda, and I can just imagine the terror a wild animal would go through while fighting this thing until it strangled to death.

Shame on the man who set this snare, and shame on anyone else who uses them. :!: :!: :mad:
 
That's bad new. Pulling for Zelda.

In Sask they are supposed to notify everybody around . I would have to check the trapping Regs. But they shouldn't have been that close to your yard.
 
Shouldn't have been on the planet, IMO.

These particular coyotes are accused of killing deer, yet they share the same space as two hundred calving cows, and have never done anything wrong. I would think a deer killer would be a calf killer, or at least a calf yard lurker. The donkeys aren't in every pen, and if the coyotes wanted to be a nuisance, we'd know about it.

We have more deer killed by cars while coming to his yard for supper than the coyotes could ever do in. I've had more than one jump over the hood of my car for that matter. :?
 
IF it were me....I'd hunt the SOB down and give him a piece of my mind and scare him so bad I'd make him think he might end up having to shite in a bag the rest of his life!!!!


He'll be easy enough found....SOMEBODY knows his name and where's he at.


Keep us posted!
 
Thats too much to just let pass, I would have to find this person and???
I would need someone to go with me to keep ME from getting into trouble.
Hope your GSD is ok, please let me know.
Larry
 
Yup......... Good old state trappers use them in our country........ :mad:
And they can put them anywhere on a correction line and you have absoulutly(sp) no say....... My friend had the same thing happen to her dog and the dog lost an eye......... Remember the squeeky wheel gets the oil............ :wink:
 
Any worthless __________- setting snares that close to houses,has to know there are pets that could be caught,watch his snare location Kato,when he comes checkin kick his _________ good.
good luck
PS Hope your dog gets along OK
 
Thanks guys. :)

She's a little brighter today. I just got back from a visit. She's in the stage where swelling around the throat is her biggest issue. Breathing is difficult, and swallowing food or water are impossible so far. If she makes as much progress by tomorrow as she has up to now, I'm feeling hopeful. The big test is whether she can eat and keep it down. Sometimes they do permanent damage to the esophagus, and that's the big thing to get past before we can get confident.

I spent the morning bringing the law down on this guys sorry a*&. Once we got calmed down last night, we realized that the bit of land where the trap was set was actually owned by the municipality, not the neighbour. I checked with the municipality, and they have given no one permission to set traps, therefore the trap is an illegal one. I went out and marked it with the gps, took the snare to the conservation office, and filed a complaint. Now we wait. I'm hoping that we can at least scare this guy out of the neighbourhood, and better yet, out of having a desire to snare things. The conservation officer is amazed that she lived more than a couple of minutes in this thing. He once found a couger in one, and it had died quickly. It must have been her training that made her sit still so it didn't tighten even more.

I left these pictures so he can see what he has done. I measured from our front door to the trap, and it came to exactly 775 feet. This is not very far, by rural standards, and common sense should have told the bozo that this was not a good place for a trap. It's about the same distance to our other neighbour, and he has three small children! Imagine that!! :mad: :mad:

This is Zelda.

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This is Zelda today.

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I hope this idiot has these pictures haunt him for a long long time.
 
What a beautiful dog she is. What happened to you makes me sick and I hope you find the SOB that did this. Please keep us informed, we want to hear about her getting better each day!!!!
 
:mad: why was he setting the snares to begin with. that is kind of cruel it doesn't matter what kind of animal it is. imagine if one of the kids just happen to step on it. i know one of my kids probably would have they are very curious. there's a easier way to get rid of nuisance animals. the pictures probaly won't even bother this sob.
 
Oh, Kato, I'm so sorry about Zelda! Please keep us updated!

Coyotes around here are a BIG, HUGE problem. A couple years ago we had a calf where it's hind end was chewed up from a coyote, it did survive and healed up. We've seen them eating new born calves during the process of birth. Putting up snares so close to homes was NOT a good idea - and - especially without permission!!! I sure hope you find the person who did this!!!!!
 
I have a problem with trespass hunters and fishermen with dogs, rather then argue with them I tell them that the Government trapper is working my place ant that there are snares, traps and M-44s set on my property and will they please get their dog off my property. POOF they gone no arguing at all.
I am on the county pred board and the trappers we use will not set traps, or snares close to any where there are dogs, (unless the problem is dogs. M-44s are set in very remote area and are signed.
Snares are a good tool to get coyotes as well is flying, calling, dogs and denning.
 
The part of this that our neighbour just doesn't get is that by feeding an ecouraging the deer to live so close in such numbers he is actually just attracting the coyotes. The deer are the very reason there are so many coyotes here. It's like the chicken and the egg. :? :?

Twenty years ago we had about a half dozen deer nearby, and rarely saw a coyote. We even had one old doe live long enough to become arthritic. She would camp out behind our yard during hunting season. We had the old single coyote across the tracks who followed the baler around the field picking up mice, and everything was very nicely balanced. Then came a really hard winter, and out came the grain. The deer began to accumulate until they numbered well over a hundred to a group. There were more than a couple of these herds within a five mile circle. Of course the coyotes showed up. :!: What did he think would happen??? :? :?

So now he wants to stop nature from doing it's work, and encourage even more deer. When will it stop? This guy goes out on his quad in the evening to escort them into our corn patch if you can believe it. We don't mind sharing the corn, but geezz.... do they need an escort??? :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
 
I've took too many wire snares off crippled cows-- few around here will allow them to use them--but some still do and on the public land- but they have to have the snares tagged with their identification, so are liable for any damages.....
 

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