Target: Amanda Beal, Commissioner – Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Goal: End the use of inhumane and indiscriminate animal traps in Maine to prevent unnecessary suffering of animals.
Trapping is a popular activity in Maine, with thousands of licensed trappers operating in the state every year. However, the traps used in this practice are often cruel and indiscriminate, causing immense pain and suffering to animals, including endangered and threatened species. In Maine, cruel devices such as body-crushing and leg-hold traps are still legal, despite being banned in many other states.
These traps not only cause unnecessary suffering to the targeted species, but they can also have negative impacts on wild or domestic animals that wander into them accidentally. For example, the indiscriminate nature of traps means that non-target animals such as domestic dogs and cats can also get caught, leading to tragic outcomes for pets and their owners. Additionally, these traps can harm animals that are critical to the functioning of ecosystems, such as predators that help control pest populations.
To combat the use of cruel animal traps in Maine, it is important to raise awareness about the suffering that they cause to animals and the negative impacts on ecosystems. Furthermore, it is critical to push for the adoption of more humane and effective alternatives to trapping, such as live-trapping, which allows for the safe capture and release of animals, and exclusionary methods, which prevent animals from accessing certain areas.
Sign the below petition to urge the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to take action to protect animals from being cruelly trapped.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Commissioner Beal,
I am writing to urge the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to ban the use of inhumane animal traps in the state of Maine. The use of traps such as body-crushing traps and leg-hold traps is cruel and indiscriminate, leading to immense suffering of animals, including endangered and threatened species.
The use of these traps also poses a threat to entire ecosystems, as non-target animals can also become trapped and harmed, and critical species that play key roles in ecosystems can be inadvertently targeted.
It is time for Maine to join the growing number of states that have banned the use of inhumane traps and adopt more humane and effective alternatives to prevent unnecessary animal suffering. We urge you to take action now to protect Maine’s wildlife and prevent needless animal suffering.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Ardeshir Etemad
Can humans be any crueler?
This planet will be so much better off when humans are gone. I mean that seriously.
This planet is headed to its destruction, technology is one of its signs
They are not ‘HUMAN’ but spawn of Satan, so what can we expect from them?
In addition to that, man only cares about making money, without taking into account the damage that his ‘diabolic inventions’ can cause to any living being.
Why do these cruel people do every thing they can into make sure innocent animals have to suffer horribly before they die. They are no better than the some of the Asian communities that eat dogs and cats.
Why do humans feel the need to hurt animals and suffer unnecessarily? Just leave them alone and let them live in peace. Humans really do suck.
Humans are the greatest killers on the plant. We must better before we destroy what’s left of our animals and moth earth!!!
This abuse of animals is referred to as a popular activity. There is no end of the dreadful things we will do to animals for ‘fun’ and ‘sport’. It has to end and soon.
What else can be expected from greedy ‘beasts’ eager to get rich regardless of the damage they can cause to the plant or animal kingdom, and many times to man as well?
As a species, humans need to replace inhumane, outdated methods of trapping with alternative ones that reflect some type of intellectual and technological evolution on our part. Please make this a priority!!
JUST LEAVE THE ANIMALS ALONE TO LIVE THEIR LIVES!!!! JUST WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE ???????
UNFORGIVABLE THAT TRAPPING IS STILL ALLOWED!!!! HUMANITY IS MUTATING RATHER THAN EVOLVING IF THIS IS ALLOWED TO CONTINUE!!
UNSPEAKABLE CRUELTY!! What a stain on “humanity”!!
WHY IS THIS BARBARIC CRUELTY TOLERATED????
Those people who use traps need to step in them, see how it feels! These are torture devices that cause so much intense suffering to the poor animals who are unfortunate enough to get caught in them. Ban and outlaw them!!
This trapping is horrific and CRUEL!
Let’s hope that their ‘diabolic creators’ end up in hell!
Can humans be more cruel and evil? Can the people making, using, approving these traps stop and think for a bloody second the pain and suffering they are causing innocent beings! Let’s put human size traps out! You sadistic, inhumane, soulless monsters!
These horror traps should be banned EVERYWHERE!
There are better, more humane, ways than this!
Humans are mean paranoid murderers and sadistic psychopaths! Humans murder all life on planet Earth, and look for life in other galaxies. This is PARANOID!!!
Stop trapping innocent creatures, you evil mentally-deranged murderers!!!
rot in hell
Trappers are not a necessary vocation. I may be wrong but I think it’s more for sport. Trappers kill animals so they can stay warm at hone and not have hands on involvement. We don’t need trappers. We have killing contests, trophy hunters and other people of ill intent. It is Climate Change and we need our eco systems in tact. Stop these trappers. Pass a law that says NO to traps. Due to the innocent animals, owners, and wild animals trapped but not wanted by the trappers it seems there are too many accidents done by these traps. It’s not brain science … get rid of them!
I definitely agree with these comments.
This planet will be so much better off when humans are gone. I mean that seriously.
Humans are mean paranoid murderers and sadistic psychopaths! Humans murder all life on planet Earth, and look for life in other galaxies. This is PARANOID!!!
Stop trapping innocent creatures, you evil mentally-deranged murderers!!!
They are not ‘HUMAN’ but spawn of Satan, so what can we expect from them? Is to kill all the vile and evil psychopathic human monster bastards immediately.
The company I work for has pantry moth traps over the building it is very sad for me daily to see them struggling to get off the glue, I have to put these moths out of there misery I have told management if that was a bird you would not witness and allow that to happen but they say they are a nuisance.
STOP ALL TUPES OF ANIMAL CRUELTY AND ABUSE TOWARDS ALL ANIMALS IMMEDIATELY!!!
STOP ALL TYPES OF ANIMAL CRUELTY AND ABUSE AGAINST ALL ANIMALS IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!