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.

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.

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 ...

BARNUM, MINN. – They came by the hundreds to this sleepy little town, which bills itself as the "Gateway to the North Woods." They were drawn here by a collective passion for trapping fur ...

We had the trail to ourselves. But you wouldn't know it. My dog -- a 4-year-old golden retriever -- and I were on the Paul Bunyan Trail near Nisswa on one of those recent 50-plus degree days. It ...

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 ...

A man wants to see trapping banned in Grand Beach Provincial Park after his dog was killed by a trap last month. Rob Shura and his dog Pippin were walking through the park on Nov. 22, about 10 metres ...

The number refers to the size of the jaw spread, and traps come in sizes ranging from 110, the smallest conibear with a 4-by-4-inch spread, to the 330 conibear, which has a 10-by-10-inch spread.

ANN ARBOR, MI — Efforts to clear out beavers along a creek at Ann Arbor’s Leslie Park Golf Course have involved using a lethal type of trap the city banned four years ago. The city’s parks ...