Rule 312 IAC 9-3-14.5 in Indiana allows trappers to trap wild animals, like raccoons. On July 20, 2010, I learned that they can also hold them for the purpose of collecting and selling their urine even though the rule does not provide for allowing them to do so.   Since they can then hold them up to 20 days after the end of trapping season, that means that for periods of 3 months (raccoons) to 6 months (skunks and coyotes) they languish in cruel confinement.  They can starve them to death since they will produce urine as long as they have water.  They keep them out in the cold so their fur thickens.  Then, when dead, they skin them and often throw the dead animals in with the living to be cannibalized.  At the end, they kill those left and then sell the fur.  This sadistic practice can be stopped.   The DNR Director, Robert Carter, can suspend the rule and the Natural Resources commission can repeal it.  Make them understand that they can no longer condone such cruelty.