GSPCA fears more illegal snares after cat’s close call

Wednesday 23rd November 2011, 1:00PM GMT.

GSPCA welfare and education officer Emma Trousdale with the wire snare which a pet cat got partly caught in. Adi, the cat in the picture, was not the one involved in the incident. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 1201053)

CATS risk suffering a slow and painful death if islanders set ‘barbaric’ and illegal rabbit snares, GSPCA welfare and education officer Emma Trousdale said after a St Andrew’s cat had a narrow escape.

The young feline was brought to the shelter with a wire snare around its tummy.

Miss Trousdale said that cat had been lucky, but feared more snares were out there.

‘The cat had walked through the snare, but, fortunately, it had not been attached well or the cat could have been killed,’ she said.

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Rodney Hale

November 23, 2011 at 10:17 pm

If this was an illegal snare then it was presumably the self-locking type ie as the victim pulls it has an ever tightening, ratchet type of action. Free-running snares are legal and in theory release their grip when the animal stops pulling. However, free- running snares can become self-locking if the wire becomes twisted as the animal thrashes around. The maximum legal inspection period for a snare is 24 hours and it is totally unacceptable that a terrified animal can be left for that period without food or water, helpless to attack from predators and perhaps in extreme weather conditions. These appalling instruments of torture belong to the Dark Ages and should be banned.

Rodney Hale
Founder – Hare Preservation Trust

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PBFALLA

November 24, 2011 at 6:34 am

Rumour is these snares have been laid to stop the exodus.

Members beware

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