MN trapper-education classes include ethics and safety, but MN trapping regulations do not. Just as ethics and safety are worth teaching, they're worth enforcing.

Our residential neighborhoods include beautiful open spaces that should be everyone's to enjoy. Unfortunately, a few careless individuals want to set killer traps in them. We can protect our neighborhoods with improved municipal trapping ordinances.

Killer traps aren't designed to allow the rescue of non-target catches (e.g. our dogs), but we can learn how the traps work, and how we might manage rescues, in cases in which the traps have struck with sublethal force.

Outdoor activities that seem like "hunting," but that don't involve the harvest of meat or fur, and don't have a place in scientific wildlife management, need to be distinguished from "hunting," and need to be regulated as such.