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Loading...Hero Uses Pocket Knife to Free Trapped Lynx in Canadian Wilderness
Written by Kevin Aubie of New Brunswick, Canada
About five years ago I was working at a lodge deep in the New Brunswick forest. My boss/friend was away that day and I was alone. Several people came into the lodge asking if I knew how to contact the forest rangers who were not at their office right next door. I told them there was nobody around but me and asked them what the problem was. They told me that just a little ways up the trail on a turnoff was a lynx was caught in a trap and injured.
Lynx are quite rare in New Brunswick and I had never seen one but was extremely concerned, and considering that I’m very anti-trapping, I was also angry.
I asked for more details including how big it was and how dangerous. The four very large men told me it was too dangerous to go near since lynx have huge paws and claws. I didn’t care; I was only 160 lbs but I made the decision right then and there that I was going to help.
How would I save him without being torn apart?
I immediately began to think about how I could rescue this animal without being torn apart. Since I was at a skidoo lodge there were several full leather skidoo suits around. I dressed up in a full leather suit, ski doo boots, leather gloves and a ski doo helmet and told the men “lead me to it.”
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+ add your ownI thank-U very much Marianne for your input *smiles* .........Mark D didn't personal attack me though he just seems to not like trappers,i would hate to think what he would do to a trick or treater on helloween dressed up as a trapper!
Mark D.......I think you do a great dis-service to trappers comparing them to child killers.Its simple enough to say that traps in this day and age should be discontinued overall.There are still places in this world where people survive by killing their own food and living off the land,not everybody lives in a city with a store next door to them.I think its great Care2 members care but i think its a mistake to hate on the level you base your feelings on.Trapping at one point was a very noble career,people just got greedy and it got out of hand,it was always cruel but if you want to travel that road then start reflecting on every choice you make as it effects something.
Mark. Your words about Ken are very hard and cruel.He is not a trapper he only gave us his opinion.There is many sides to a story he sad, and he is right. I know him better now and he is a great friend with good advices and supports many worthy causes.
(Sorry Ken I know it's not my job to defend you but you deserve it.)
Ken: nobody but criminals cares about livelihoods" of "trappers".. who should be considered among the worst agents of cruelty chaos and death. just like nobody would cares about the "livelihood" of child killers. My opinion you're a trapper you deserve to be thrown down a dark pit and starved to death and even that is too merciful a punishment.
I'm at a loss to understand why Kevin's destruction of the traps is illegal, but irresponsibly setting the traps where tourists/hikers could be walking and/o leaving animals to be tortured in it is not illegal? What's wrong with this picture?!?
Steel jaws or leg hold traps must be fanned forever. No animal should be subjected to such cruelty & pain. Man is so cruel sometimes. Why?
This guy is a hero.
Care 2 petition still malfunctioning and I can't sign
Wire live cage traps are much more efficient, this enables animals that are not to be trapped to be released unharmed, and the others to be eliminated painlessly. Wire noose and leg traps are indiscriminate and largely ineffective.
i vote we put the limbs of trappers in those steel jaws and dump them in the dessert and leave them there for the snakes ,scorpions and lizards. Man is so vile
what a man!
Traps should NEVER be used, and should be outlawed everywhere!
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