CRUELTY OF NEGLECTED TRAPS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—I enclose a cutting which bears on your articles on the cruelty of neglected traps. How many hundreds are there that we do not hear of ?—I am, Sir, &c.,
R. M. RUDOLF.
100 College Street, Toronto.
"Bridgeport, Conn., April 6th.—With her feet caught in; two traps, Goldie, a collie owned by Wm. Wakeman, a farmer of Easton, lay fifty-five days in a dense thicket a mile from her home. The dog disappeared February 10th, and Wakeman immediately advertised that he would pay a reward for her return. He searched the adjacent countryside. Yesterday a farm labourer following through the woods heard a rustle of leaves, and spied the missing pet. A steel trap had severed one forepaw, a rear leg was caught fast in another trap. The emaciated creature had eaten all the grass and green twigs in reach. Dead leaves blown by the wind almost covered her. Too weak to bark, she attracted notice with a feeble movement of her head in the leaves. The farm hand, recognizing her, took her in his arms to Wakeman's house. A veterinarian, after working over her last night and to-day, holds out hope for her life. Her survival without food during the long ordeal, much of it in winter, is believed unprecedented.' —The Toronto Mai/ and Empire.
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