'I ran the few meters to him and looked into his blue eyes that were filled with absolute terror,' the dog's owner, Sean Boxall, recalled Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Every winter, dogs in Alaska are maimed and killed by snares and powerful “quick-kill” Conibear crushing traps placed, virtually without restriction, in public multi-use areas. Alaska’s exceptionally ...

It only took one experience with a friend’s dog getting caught in a steel jaw trap that motivated me into the quest to ban traps. All of them! Not only snares, Conibear traps and steel jaw traps but ...