I could hardly get past the first few paragraphs of this article. The photographs are sickening. I know what I would be feeling if this happened to one of our beloved dogs. I would be very, very angry.

These traps should be once again used on wolves, but the worthless thugs that put them where family pets get killed should have a serious physical punishment, IMO. Just losing their jobs is not enough, but a good start.

Where livestock-killing predators are the only likely vicitms, they are a good tool, but they are absolutely unacceptable near uneducated or young people or pets.

Traps like these, if they should ever be used at all, should be used to snare tiny-minded (and tiny-[other bits]) bureaucrats who take perverse, evil joy in inflicting pain on good people by causing terrible harm to living things for no reason.

Did you vote for this agency to do these things? I sure didn´t. Get rid of it and fire the people who work there.

Nope. I think I´ll pass on this one.

Remember that gov´t agencies are like Lily Tomlin and the Telephone Company.

They don´t answer to anyone and they do what they please.

"We don´t have to ´cause we´re the Telephone Company."

As I recall, the laws of agency protect employees from civil liability.

Criminal liability is another matter. Any human injury or death could result in prison time, even for a ´Fed´.

If this were my pet, I would demand a map of all these traps under the pretense of safety.

After a short period of time, every one of those traps within about 10 miles would be smashed to bits. And the next ones they set, and the next.

What if this was a small child?

Wow. Aren´t those kind of traps illegal for normal citizens? A slow painful death is wrong for anyone. But, a family pet. A Border Collie?

Things like this is of course the main reason our dogs only go out in a fenced in backyard, or on a leash.

40 years ago my foster brother, a policeman, came home from work to find our cocker spaniel sitting on our stoop (in a far far suburb of Chicago), and a county policeman with his gun drawn, ready to shoot the dog. They apparently shot dogs who were not leashed (she dug her way out of the backyard and went to the front door). My brother, pulled his own gun and told the other officer, if he shot the dog, or anyone in the house, the officer would also die.

This is deplorable. I don´t care if they´ve been around since 1895, it´s yet another example -- in this case tragic -- of bloated overextended government.

Protect livestock? Absolutely! But to literally overkill in order to control some relatively harmless rodent, in an area where kids and pets play is senseless and irresponsible.

"They are told to get rid of the leash and bury the dog," said the source, who spoke to FoxNews.com on condition of anonymity.

this gives me cause for pause. Considering the kind of people being hired for fed positions (I´m thinking of TSA) this could be a short trip from family pets to family members...

FTA
A report by the Sacramento Bee, which investigated the program last year, claimed its employees have accidentally killed more than 50,000 non-target animals since 2000, including federally protected golden and bald eagles. The newspaper also reported that more than 1,100 dogs, including family pets, were destroyed by government traps or poison within those same years. Other known cases include serious injuries to pets that result in leg amputations, as well as harm to humans who come in contact with the cyanide."
Where is PETA ?
This makes me sick. Next year we will have articles like this about the humans ´accidentally´ killed by drones. It´s past time

One of our Border Collies was a Maggie.

I cannot believe this was within 50 feet of a home.

It is heartbreaking to lose a pet this way...unimaginable if it was a child.

I pray that no missing children met with this fate.

I get the strong impression that the Obama Regime is training blood-thirsty, psychotics to run Nazi-like death camps.

I deal with this agency regularly and in my area it is very professional. As a rancher you would be shocked how many city people are abandoning their pets in the country or how many precious pets pack up and travel to the country killing calves and other peoples pets to return in the morning to the comfort of their back yard. I shoot them on a regular basis. I don´t like it but I´ve got working dogs of my own that take years to train and I can´t afford to replace them several times a year.
I´m not saying this article is a complete lie but in my part of the world it sure is! I´m still calling it "reckless with the truth".

Muslims can´t stand dogs. Coincidence?

#14: thanks for a different perspective. Fox is just like any news outlet. Selling the story.

I get so angry at the limo liberals out here in Southern California who buy a dog as an accessory and then abandon it in one of the canyons. With as many rescues as we have out here, you´d think they could be bothered to simply drop the dog off. But, no, they´ve got hair appointments and breakfast with Obama. Pigs.

Another one of the *AGENCIES* buying up HOLLOW-POINT AMMO...

GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!

Our tax-masters in DC are indeed totally out of control.

I remember back when I lived in America and wildlife agencies would just announce a bounty on coyotes if there were too many of them. It was a way for decent , law-abiding clingers to make a few bucks and proved to be a successful method for reducing the natural cyclical increase in the population of such pests. In the new America, we just pay thousands of bureaucratic robots to kill anything that resembles a dog. I guess that´s what you get when you vote for "progress".