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"A steel trap meant for wild animals closed on the foot of a kitten recently in Albuquerque. \u00A0The animal was injured so badly that part of its paw had to be amputated.\u00A0Pictures of the injured kitten show her right front paw stuck in in a steel jaw leg-hold trap.\"Her poor little foot was split hanging,\" Animal Welfare Officer Sharen Westhoff said.Investigators believe the kitten dragged the trap around, and somehow ended up in someone's back yard.\u00A0That person called animal welfare.\u00A0\u00A0 \u00A0\"It had actually removed the skin and exposed the bone on those two toes,\" Westhoff said.Animal Welfare officers believe someone set the trap in the Thomas Village area near Rio Grande and Indian School.\"It's traumatic to see somebody who would do something so callous,\" she said.That kind of trap is illegal in city limits and beyond.\"This specific trap does not meet the safety standards required for a leg-hold trap,\" Westhoff said. \"So it's illegal anywhere in the state.\"Lucky for the kitten, she stumbled into the right hands.The vet had to amputate her two injured toes, but she will be OK.Officers believe more traps are out there.\"A child not knowing what this is, or if it's hidden, could walk across one of these,\" Westhoff said. \"The damage it could do to a small child is unthinkable.\"If you come across a trap, get away from it and call police."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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