Clamp down on illegal traps in Singapore

Straits Times Forum 18 Aug 09;

IT WAS heart-rending for me to find yet another stray dog suffering as a result of illegal traps laid in the forested areas of Lim Chu Kang.
The sight of stray animals with their limbs torn off is too much for me to bear in silence. I hope the authorities will put a stop to these illegal traps.

It was reported in June that a stray dog had been found with its right hind leg severed by one of these traps ('Dog found with hind paw severed', June 30), and it is disappointing that yet another stray has suffered a similar fate.

Such illegal traps are also a danger to people. Will action be taken only after a human has been injured by them?

Michelle Sng (Miss)

Stop setting cruel and illegal animal traps
Straits Times 20 Aug 09;

I AM shocked to find out that Singapore allows the public to lay illegal traps in forests to trap stray dogs and cats ('Clamp down on illegal traps' by Miss Michelle Sng, Forum Online, Tuesday).

This is such an inhumane way to trap animals and is dangerous to humans walking in the area. This is wrong and barbaric. We live in a civilised world.

Please do something about it. Please ban illegal traps.

Pauline Tan (Ms)