Background A body-gripping trap, is a trap made to snap shut and hold on to an animal's leg or other body part. Cage and box traps and common rat and mouse traps are not considered to be body-gripping traps. Bait is food used to trap animals. Sodium cyanide and sodium fluoroacetate are poisons put in bait.
Animals eat the bait and die.
Most uses of body-gripping traps will be illegal. Fur from animals killed with body-gripping traps cannot be bought or sold Two poisons to kill wild animals cannot be used. These traps and poisons are cruel and cause animals much pain. Many animals such as pets are killed by mistake. Poisons for bait, such as sodium cyanide, are dangerous to the environment, pets and people.