Acknowledging the extreme and unnecessary cruelty associated with steel-jaw traps, the National Animal Control Association and American Animal Hospital Association have condemned the devices. Any ...

Hugh Talman / NMAH, SI This large iron spring trap may have been fashioned by an ... releasing the bar and sending a spring-loaded jaw crashing into their skulls in 10 to 12 milliseconds.

He had been caught in a steel-jaw leghold trap, and after being discovered by the trapper, he was shot. Still, somehow, he survived. Wild furbearers are the target, but any animal in the area is at ...