“She noticed she had a huge leg hold trap on its back right ... “We get the trap off, we take her to Your Pets Animal Hospital in Hot Springs — where the leg had to be amputated,” Pye ...

When the animal steps on the pan of the trap, it releases two opposing steel jaws to slam violently together on a leg or paw. The jaws clamp tightly ... sound like two pillows coming together to ...

Such an animal might normally have been released unharmed from this trap, but for another, far less benign trap firmly affixed to the raccoon’s right front leg. Evidently, this “dog-proof” trap had ...