When the animal steps on the pan of the trap, it releases two opposing steel jaws to slam violently together on a leg or paw. The jaws clamp tightly on the limb to prevent the animal from pulling free ...

Some may even chew off a trapped paw to escape on three legs. AWI has been campaigning vigorously for years against the steel-jaw leghold trap in this country and abroad. It has been condemned as ...

something on its paw.” “He called a couple of organizations, but they couldn’t help him, and when he reached out to us, we went out with a Have-A-Heart trap,” Kaminski explained.