After several months of signature gathering, more than 6,000 ProPAW volunteers collected the majority of voter signatures required to put Proposition 4 on the ballot. Now, voters will get the opportunity to vote YES to ban these traps forever.
Leghold traps are inhumane and indiscriminate.
Any animal who triggers one can be injured or killed by the trap's deadly metal jaws. These traps are used primarily to catch furbearers such as bobcats, beavers, and foxes, so that a trapper can skin the animal and sell its pelt. The United States, former countries of the Soviet Union, and Canada still allow widespread use of this barbaric device. In 1996, voters in Massachusetts and Colorado banned the use of leghold traps. California's voters get their chance on November 3rd.