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State Rep Pursues Bill That Would Allow Towns To Decide on Leg-Hold Trapping

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A state legislator is urging residents of area towns to contact their delegates to the Connecticut General Assembly as he pushes for a bill that would allow municipalities— rather than the state — to decide whether widely discussed leg-hold or “foothold” traps may be used in their towns. State Rep. Fred Camillo (R-151) said that allowing towns to move away from the traps— which use a footplate and curved jaws that snap onto animals that spring them — is mainly “about cruelty to animals who otherwise have no say at all in how they are treated.”
“This is something that is really horrible,” Camillo, who represents a wide swath of Greenwich, told NewCanaanite.com as a long session of the state Legislature got underway last week. ______________

— This article originally was published by NewCanaanite.com. ______________

“Horrible. And it is not just for coyotes,” he said.