What is Animal trapping?
[[File:Wolf in trap, 1909-1918.jpg|thumb|alt=|Wolf caught by foothold trap]] [[File:Coyote in trap, 1909-1918.jpg|thumb|Coyote in trap, 1909-1918]] [[File:cage trap.jpg|right|thumb|Cage trap with shade cloth to protect animal from heat.]] '''Animal trapping''', or simply '''trapping''', is the use of a [[device]] to [[wikt:catch|catch]] an [[animal]]. Animals may be trapped for a variety of purposes, including food, [[wildlife management]], [[hunting]] and [[pest control]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trapping - Animal Welfare Problems|url=https://www.furfreealliance.com/trapping/|access-date=2021-09-11|website=Fur Free Alliance|language=en-CA}}</ref> Each year, over 5 million wild animals, including [[Coyote|coyotes]], [[Fox|foxes]] and [[Bobcat|bobcats]], are caught and killed in wild traps, mainly in the [[United States|US]], [[Canada]] and [[Russia]], although trapping does occur in other countries too on a smaller scale. Traps are indiscriminate, catching the first animal to step on them. Countless dogs and cats, deer, birds and other animals—including threatened and endangered animals—are also injured and killed each year by the traps. Trap checking times range from once every 24 hours to once every 14 days. The regulations on trapping are weak and extremely difficult to enforce, which means untold amounts of animal suffering goes undocumented and uninvestigated. Many animals die trying to free themselves, next to [[dehydration]], blood loss and [[hypothermia]]. Often animals become so desperate, they resort to chewing or wringing off their own trapped limb in order to escape, breaking teeth and bones in the process. Some may die from blood loss or shock but most animals will be trapped for days before the trapper returns to kill them.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-06-21|title=Cruel Wildlife Trapping|url=https://www.peta.org/issues/wildlife/cruel-wildlife-control/cruel-wildlife-trapping/|access-date=2021-09-11|website=PETA|language=en-US}}</ref> There are many kinds. For a deadfall trap, a trapper digs a deep [[hol