The following arguments were prepared by committees appointed in accordance with state law. The Office of the Secretary of State is not authorized to edit statements, nor is it responsible for their content. They are like land mines. Some animals chew off their feet to escape.
Trappers kill animals by stomping, bludgeoning, and strangulation.
It prohibits the use of cruel traps for commercial and recreational purposes. Exceptions allow the use of certain body-gripping traps to protect human health and safety, private property, livestock, or threatened and endangered species or for wildlife research. Rat, mouse, and cage traps are exempted. I-713 is a reasonable and common sense measure that brings Washington's trapping policies into the 21st century. Three thousand volunteers gathered a quarter of a million signatures to qualify I-713 for the ballot.