Trapping is wrong

With much aggravation, I have followed the continuing dispute about Marion Foley and her traumatic experience with the irresponsible placement of traps near the road on which she, her pets and her grandchildren were walking.

The continued lame arguments of the trappers are without merit in any conscionable way. Call trapping legal if you wish, but it is a cruel and deplorable act committed against animals living peacefully in their own environment.

Anyone who believes trapping is not a source of suffering or torture to the victimized living beings must also believe that when a person (soldier or civilian) loses a limb to a land mine they must not feel anything.

But let's not go there; we all know humans are different. But God gave man dominion over the animals, you say. God? God? You claim belief in God and still torture? How do you defend that?

It might be legal, but the trapping of defenseless and unsuspecting animals in a way that they drown, strangle, chew or twist a leg off, or just break a leg and wait for some grinning letch to come knock them in the head with a club for a dollar, is wrong.

Legal or not, it's still wrong. May all trappers find their implements of torture sprung, rusted, empty or missing.

Keith Kratzer

Columbia Falls