A bill in the NYS Assembly, A.9258, would overturn current NYS law by legalizing the use of noose snare traps. These traps painfully choke and strangle animals, such as foxes, beavers, coyotes, raccoons and opossums. Traps are not selective and might also kill domestic animals or endangered species.

Snared animals sometimes suffer for days before death delivers them. Trappers use the term "jellyhead" to refer to the thick, bloody lymph fluid that swells the head and neck of these unfortunate victims.

Much of the U.S. is phasing out snares. NYS should not go backward by re-introducing these devices of torture.

Please contact the people below to express opposition to A. 9258.

Sheldon Silver, Speaker
NYS Assembly
L.O.B. 932
Albany, NY 12248
(518)455-3791
FAX (518)455-5459
speaker@assembly.state.ny.us

Robert Sweeney, Chair
Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee
L.O.B. 625
Albany, NY 12248
(518)455-5787