City of Albuquerque - File #: M-11-5

• File #: M-11-5
• Type: Memorial
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 9/7/2011
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 10/1/2011
• Enactment date: 10/1/2011
• Enactment #: M-2011-004
• Title: Supporting A Ban Of Animal Trapping Through The Use Of Steel-Jaw Leghold Traps, Strangulation Snares, Kill-Type Animal Traps, And Any Modified Version Of Any Such Traps On New Mexico Public Lands (Benton, Jones)
• Sponsors: Isaac Benton, Trudy E. Jones

Date	Action By	Action	Result
10/1/2011	City Clerk	Enacted
9/27/2011	City Council	Sent to City Clerk for Signature
9/19/2011	City Council	Do Pass	Pass
9/7/2011	City Council	Introduced
9/7/2011	President	To be heard at the Council Meeting

CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
NINETEENTH COUNCIL


COUNCIL BILL NO. M-11-5 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________

SPONSORED BY: Isaac Benton and Trudy Jones


MEMORIAL
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Supporting A Ban Of Animal Trapping Through The Use Of Steel-Jaw Leghold Traps, Strangulation Snares, Kill-Type Animal Traps, And Any Modified Version Of Any Such Traps On New Mexico Public Lands (Benton, Jones)
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SUPPORTING A BAN OF ANIMAL TRAPPING THROUGH THE USE OF STEEL-JAW LEGHOLD TRAPS, STRANGULATION SNARES, KILL-TYPE ANIMAL TRAPS, AND ANY MODIFIED VERSION OF ANY SUCH TRAPS ON NEW MEXICO PUBLIC LANDS.
WHEREAS, commercial and recreational trapping of “furbearing” animals using hidden steel-jaw leghold traps, strangulation snares, and kill-type animal traps is permitted on almost all of New Mexico's public lands; and
WHEREAS, the use of steel-jaw leghold traps, strangulation snares, and kill-type animal traps on public lands results in the unnecessary pain, suffering, maiming and killing of untold numbers of “nontarget” animals, including domestic dogs, cats, rabbits, deer, songbirds, eagles, owls, hawks, river otters and threatened and endangered species; and
WHEREAS, millions of people, 89 countries, several U.S. states, and numerous municipalities and organizations, including the Humane Society of the United States, the American Veterinarian Association, the American Animal Hospital Association, the World Veterinary Association, and the National Animal Control Association, have declared steel-jaw leghold traps to be inhumane; and
WHEREAS, trappers in New Mexico are not required to and do not warn the public of the specific or general location of the steel-jaw leghold traps, strangulation snares, and kill-type animal traps they hide on public lands; and
WHEREAS, humans have suffered injuries and companion and other nontarget animals have been injured, maimed and killed by hidden and unmarked steel-jaw leghold traps, strangulation snares, and kill-type...