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Dog loses leg after caughtin trap, prompting renewedcalls to ban trapping
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s a hotly debated topicin New Mexico: whether or not to ban animal trapping.Now, a local rescue group is pushing for the ban after alost pup barely escaped with his life.
When Argos Animal Rescue first found Kekoa, they didn’tthink he would make it through the night. Now, after amiraculous recovery, he’s acting as their poster pup forchange.
“Kekoa means warrior in Hawaiian,” said Kim Domina,Argos Dog Rescue founder. “Strength of a warrior and Ithink that’s what Kekoa is.”
A warrior who survived days with his leg caught in a steeltrap.
“Officer Rico said that he was definitely caught in a leg-hold trap of some kind,” Domina explained. “And that heprobably was there for a couple days.”
On November 27, Argos Animal Rescue and K-9 Rehab gota call about the horrific conditions Valencia CountyAnimal Control found Kekoa in. “He tried to chew his own leg off. He does have prettyhorrific injuries,” Domina said. “He had bite wounds allover his entire body. We ended up having to amputate hisleg because it was fractured.”
Tracie Dulniak with the K-9 Rehab Institute says this typeof injury is becoming more and more common.
“We get a lot of these dogs that are coming in from othercounties and other states that have been severely abusedor injured through traps,” Dulniak said.
This leaves the injured dogs with emotional, physical and
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mental scars, a concern that Trap Free New Mexico saysshould be addressed.
“We shouldn’t have to rely on New Mexican’s dogs stuck intraps until we abolish the practice,” said ChristopherSmith, advocate for Trap Free New Mexico.
It is a practice that state legislators have tried to banbefore, but has remained legal.
Current laws say a trap must be 25 feet or more from atrail and checked every day. The only possible changescoming to the law, at this point, is that Game and Fish isconsidering increasing the setback requirement to 50feet.
“Minor tweaks to the regulations aren’t going to keeppeople safe,” Smith said. “It’s not going to keep many petssafe but also, it’s not going to keep our native wildlifesafe.”
Kekoa’s medical bills have exceeded $3,000. ArgosRescue and K-9 Rehab are now asking for help with thosebills and boarding and are searching for a skilled fosterparent to care for him because no one has claimed him.
KRQE News 13 reached out to the New Mexico TrappersAssociation for comment, but did not hear back.
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