Ban the use of snares in England
I work in a wildlife hospital & we deal with wild animals with horrific injuries after being caught in snares. We have many photos to prove the damage done by these inhumane cheese-wires. Domestic pets have also been severely injured by snares.
A ban on their use is long overdue.
Caroline Gould
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Angela Thorne
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If this was done to humans it would be condemned as "torture", so how come it is allowed to be done to animals? Ban it NOW!!!!!
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Anonymous
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Ban snares? You have my support - 100%
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Kathleen Oyediran
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I totally support this petition. There is nothing humane about leaving a defenceless animal to suffer.
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Tutti Borsdorf
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What if a child is caught in one of these snares? They sound horrific.
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madeleine orchard
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It's disgraceful that snares are not banned in the UK. Also why are Royal Mail using so many elastic bands which cause awful injury to wildlife - can we start a campaign to stop Royal Mail using them? I see them strewn all over the streets.
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Anonymous
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I fully support this petition.
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Rachel
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There are much more humane traps to use. Please ban snares. They are unecessary and so very cruel.
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Michael Schuck
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We fully support your petition - now watch to see what a Tory government does.
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Jose Brazier
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Snares are appallingly cruel & should never ever be used! Ban them!
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Les Hardy
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Time to move out the dark ages and ban snares to the history book whatever the reasons that those who set snares use to defend their practice. You don't need much of an imagination to grasp the amount of suffering that these devices cause to animals, wild or domestic. A TOTAL BAN NOW.
Les Hardy, Herefordshire
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Huw
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Could I ask if anybody posting comments here lives or works in the countryside? Shooting pests which cause immense damage to farm land and new forestry plantations is incredibly cruel as more often than not these animals are merely wounded.
In a snare they are caught, they die fairly quickly and the site where the snares are put is stationary and able to be checked regularly.
Snares are placed in sites where the target animals run is and legally must be surrounded by sticks and other obstructions to stop larger animals from being caught in them.
Also they myth of animals being left in anguish for days needs abolishing. By law it must be checked atleast once a day, for it to be effective however it should be checked atleast twice a day.
There are already laws in place to ensure that snares are used humanely, and used humanely they are also the most effective for pest control. If you know of cases where they are not being used humanely and effectively I suggest you report it to the authorities so that the EXISTING LAWS can be enforced instead of trying to remove effective sources of pest control from the people who care for the land. -
Anonymous
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member968
Totally backs your petition to ban snares -
Sue commented
We should have moved on by now, everybody must realise how cruel and indiscriminate snares are. We don't live in the Dark Ages any longer. To know that an animal has been caught in a snare and left for hours, maybe days, is truly horrific. And anyone who thinks this is right still despite the evidence is seriously sick. Snares should be BANNED WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY. No more excuses.
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Anonymous
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No animal should be allowed to suffer in this horrendous way we humans have a lot to answer for.
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Anonymous
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Anything that causes needless suffering to animals is wrong.
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Money4Monopoly
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So many votes, so many comments...but surely actions speak louder than words? How about listing all the places where these snares have been found for starters and a nation wide map identifying the areas? Come on 38 Degrees, im getting loads of email updates of peoples comments but no way of solutions to the problem...
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Sunshine woman
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Snares are one of the most evil inventions of mankind. They are horribly cruel and should be banned immediately.
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Anonymous
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We are not the owners of this planet. Without us it would still function. Why do we think it is alright to torture, maim and kill the other inhabitants? There is no place whatsoever for snares. We must stop using them now. We haven't moved on at all from our barbaric behaviour from centuries ago.
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Huw
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I am amazed that people still do not know the reality of snares. Legally they must be checked once a day, for them to be effective they must be checked twice daily. I use snares regularly. I put them in the fence where there are rabbit runs shortly before sunset. Then at sunset I walk up the field and the rabbits bolt for the fence. They are then caught in the snares and I pick them up and dispatch them quickly. They then come home with me and go in the pot. It is a good source of free meat for me, stop the damage to new forest plantations where I do it, and helps prevent damage to farm land.
Would you prefer it if I took a rifle and shot pests? We have removed their natural predators and their numbers must be controlled somehow. Used properly snares are humane, effective, and a good source of free food in this time of austerity. -
bob cooper and christine marshall
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The use of snares to catch animals should be banned immediately,it's barbaric, cruel and should be treated in the same way as "Bear or Badger bating" . The scale suffering of the animals caught in this fashion is so terrible it is hard for most of us to imagine .
