Barb Kaas heard a commotion in the woods and sensed her Siberian husky, Sage, was in trouble. She was horseback riding Sunday on a trail near her home in Fredenberg Township north of Fish Lake.

On the first day of Minnesota’s trapping season, a pet dog being walked by a 6-year-old girl was killed. Schatzie, a 2-year-old dachshund-Chihuahua mix, was off its leash but within a few fee… ...

Reynolds wants size 155, 160 and 220 Conibear-style traps eliminated from ground use. Under his proposal, they could be used 5 feet above ground, or underwater.

By the time John Reynolds found Penni, his springer spaniel, on that December day in 2011, it was too late. She was dead, her head caught in the steel jaws of a trapper's Conibear 220 trap.

Mark Johnson's 7-year-old lab, Bronco, was killed in a body grip trap while they were grouse hunting near Bemidji in October. A Minnesota hunter is pushing for change after his dog was caught and ...

GRESHAM -- A family whose border collie was killed by a wildlife trap near their home last summer says a federal agency recklessly set it in an area frequented by children and pets and failed to ...

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses the Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act, reintroduced today in the US House of Representatives by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). This bill would prohibit the use of ...