If your pet gets caught in a trap that’s your fault, I do not let mine run loose. I’ll make an honest attempt to remove the trap but I’m not going to get bit. Keep your pets on your property and this is something you don’t have to worry about. If you have a better way to keep calf and lamb killing predators off your property I’d love to hear it.
Around here many people set traps on public ground and in ditches. They use illegal traps; with no identification.
When I mentioned in my post that my husband watched a cat killed by a trap...it was a trap that is completely, 100% illegal in the state of Iowa...it was located in a ditch off of a public roadway. A kid picking daisies could have had his hand snapped off.
It is a serious concern for guys out hunting with dogs...so we could just as easily discuss keeping traps off of public ground rather than “keeping our dogs on our property.”
Oh! Forgot to mention...I grew up on a large sheep farm. My Father would have NEVER trapped an animal in this fashion...he would have been horrified, frankly. We had farm dogs & goats to keep predators at bay...goats are mean...LOL!