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MONTH: March 2008

Animal Obituaries

 

Indy, a cattle dog belonging to Evan Levine, 17, of Flint Township, Michigan, suffocated on February 3, 2008 when caught in a Conibear trap that was illegally set in the garden of the Temple Beth El synagogue, despite Evan's father Pete Levine's efforts to force the trap open.

 

Trucker, 3, a Labrador/pit bull terrier mix kept by Holly Grant of Anchor-age, Alaska, suffocated in January 2008 in a Conibear trap set beside Powerline Pass Trail, despite Grant's efforts to free him.

 

Cupcake, a border collie belonging to Filip Panusz of Missoula, Montana, suffocated in March 2007 in a Conibear trap set near the Valley of the Moon trailhead. Panusz had adopted Cupcake from the Deer Lodge Humane Society four months earlier.

 

Zephyr, a pit bull mix belonging to Gail Murphy of Sag Harbor, New York, suffocated in December 2005 in a Conibear trap set alongside a hiking trail in Southampton Town's Long Pond greenbelt. Murphy was unable to free him. She had adopted Zephyr in 2004, after he was evacuated from the hurricane-damaged Humane Society of the Grand Bahamas to the Brookhaven Animal Shelter.

 

Conibear and leghold traps, almost impossible to open by prying against their jaws, can be opened relatively easily by simultaneously depressing the levers, tabs, or "ears" on either side of their jaws.