Our beagles (interesting that you have that as a screen name) had the full run of our farm. Someone set out a number of these traps to catch beaver...even on our property (without our knowledge). He also didn’t check the traps very regularly. Our favorite beagle got caught in one and chewed part of his own leg off to get out. We had been looking and calling for him for days. He limped home extremely weak...and simply laid down on the dirt farm road when the kids(who had noticed him arriving) began to run toward him yelling. The dog was not killed....but was very injured and had suffered quite a bit. It was summer and tropically HOT!
Right you are. Sorry to hear of your dog.
ANYONE with any actual knowledge of leghold knows that almost every animal will do the very same to free themsleves.
I beleive I would be waiting to talk with the ass that put traps on my place, after I had wrecked them all.
Beaver traps should have been in the water where no dog would have gotten in it.
I've had a couple beagles get caught in leg-hold traps and except for a sore foot for a day or so they were no worse for the wear.
I don't allow snares on my property and will only allow body grip traps off the ground for raccoons. ( bucket sets where the trap is in a 5 gal pail.)