HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA) — Two LAPD officers faced off with a particularly vicious culprit Monday and were able to trap him in a box. LAPD's Hollywood Division says Officers Kuipers and Gardners found an ...

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WKRG) — Animal welfare officers in Escambia County are speaking out about the dangers of certain types of animal traps after they rescued an injured opossum earlier this week.

BRANFORD, Conn. (WTNH)– A reward is being offered for information leading to whoever illegally set an animal trap in Branford, which then caught an opossum. Eve Robitaille spent the afternoon Sunday ...

BRANFORD- A young female opossum suffered a broken lower jaw and rear toe after a leg hold trap snapped shut on her nose in a homeowner’s backyard. “These traps are cruel and inhumane,” said Eunice ...

Pensacola City Council President Jared Moore announces he won't seek re-election PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Pensacola City Council President Jared Moore says he will not be running for re-election. Milton ...

A pair of opossums was rescued from glue traps in Marina. The SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Center saved the young marsupials last week.According to the SPCA, the opossums would have died had the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Concern about animal welfare has stimulated much research and development of restraining traps considered more humane to capture furbearers.

Trappers meet their quarry at nature’s elemental level during the bleakest months of the year. The winter growth of luxuriant fur, provoked by an evolutionary response to a weather cycle that long ...

An opossum found at a Maui car dealership was euthanized due to invasive species risks and sent for rabies testing.