TRAPPING - Demand RWC STOP "Sponsoring" Trappers! Share & Sign

Gruesome "Trapping" should NOT be "Sponsored" on USFWS Wildlife Refuges!! Wolves deserve the opportunity to live a natural life, free from frost bite and missing feet due to cruel leg-hold traps! To David_Rabon@fws.gov, kwheeler@redwolves.com cc bcc Subject Re: Just to be clear. . . I hate to be a nag, but I got a phone call last night from someone who used to be on the IWC board who saw that video (nearly 15,000 views). This individual is not against live-trapping canids for the recovery program. In fact, he is a biologist himself, lives in the UP of Michigan, and is an avid elk hunter. I explained the trappers have to be certified and the need for having trappers out there because there is so much private land in the restoration area. The caller understood all that and also had no problem with what Joey said, although he thought Joey was speaking for the Service. The problem is with the fact that while Joey is talking the wolf is struggling and grimacing, and Joey is taking no steps to subdue the animal gently so there is no further injury to the foot. Additionally, this caller asked if the trapper was using modified traps (offset jaws, padding), and I had to say I didn't know. My point is that this video IS a problem in terms of public relations. I am bracing for the emails from RWC supporters. That might not happen, but if Wolfwatcher saw it (they brought my attention to it through Maggie Howell of the Wolf Conservation Center in New York, an SSP facility for the Mexican and the red wolf), other people are going to see it. Can't Joey simply be told to take that video DOWN since he is being paid to trap for the recovery program? He is invoking the recovery program as though he were being paid to make the film, David. My Michigan friend asked if the recovery team had sponsored that video!!! YIKES!!! Neil (Hutt) (Chairman) (Red Wolf Coalition)