This show is about 5 min.s long For just a few dollars and a small investment of time, Canadians as young as 14 years old can be licensed trappers. The traplines are pieces of crown land leased by the trappers according to provincial regulations, and often come with minimum "catch" requirements to maintain the lease or rights. Traps are placed where animals travel frequently, along creek beds, for instance, or in trees. Sometimes the trap locations are baited with urine or sex gland scents that lure the animal to a certain trap. The animal is surprised, painfully gripped and restrained alive. Not infrequently, the animal is clamped on a part of the body that is excruciatingly painful –i.e. on the head, even the eye, the muzzle, or the abdomen. In an agony of pain and confusion, the animal struggles in frenzy, often mutilating itself, dislocating joints, breaking teeth, chewing on the leg or paw – in an attempt to break free. If he succeeds, the traumatized animal has scant hope for survival in the wild; death will come surely by infection, by starvation or by the animal’s being an easy prey to their predators. Trappers have a name for the phenomenon of animals chewing off their own extremities to escape; they call it "wring-off". To the trapper, it means they have lost a pelt. For the animal unable to break free, death is no kinder. Exhaustion and unconsciousness are the kindest possibilities, but there are other, grimmer kinds of death in the trap. In Canada trap checking times vary from once every 24 hours to once every five days - and such laws are really unenforceable. An animal who does not die quickly is faced with excruciating pain and a desperate, panic-filled wait.
