Tell Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops: No more wolf traps

To Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s:

Wire and leg traps for wolves are inhumane, make a mockery of the hunting principle of fair chase, and have no place in outdoors stores like Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s.

When they do their job properly, snares are lethally efficient: They wrap tight around a wolf’s neck, starving its brain of blood and killing it quickly. More often than not, however, they don’t do their job as planned. Snares constrict around a wolf’s snout or limb, leaving the animal trapped in immense pain until the hunter puts it out of its misery. Sometimes this may take a few hours; sometimes a few days.

Leg traps are similarly cruel. These indiscriminate traps lay scattered across the forest floor and bite down on the legs of their unsuspecting victims — whether that be a wolf, lynx or bear.

Snares and leg traps are unnecessary, indiscriminate and cruel. They have no place in America’s great outdoors. That’s why I’m urging you to stop selling wolf traps and snares at Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops.