Of the various methods of population control inflicted on wildlife by animal damage control agents, wildlife managers, and trappers, strangling neck snares are among the most horrific tools in the ...

Back to snares. The so-called 'free-running neck snares' that are legal are intended to hold a trapped animal alive until the snare operator returns and kills it. 'Free-running' means that the wire ...

Leg snares are placed on the ground, and the animal walks into the loop, which then springs and tightens on the leg. Sometimes the animal is caught by other parts of the body and dies slowly. Neck ...

A cruel gamekeeper left a fox foaming from the mouth and suspended by the neck in horror snare incident. Thomas Ebner, from Reston in the Borders, admitted setting the trip which left the animal ...