Traps should not be used in community

This letter is to the person who has set the coyote traps on Johnny Long Mountain and to anyone who may take their dogs for a walk in that area. I wonder if whoever is setting those traps realizes what they are doing.

What an ungodly way to die. One of my dogs got caught in one of your traps on Nov. 1. It made me sick to hear her screams of pain. While trying to release my dog from the trap, she actually bit me (a thing that she would never do) but she was in extreme pain. From what Fish and Game told me, she isn't the first dog to get caught in your traps.

Perhaps you don't realize how many people with dogs hike in that area. Just think how horrible it would be to get your foot caught in one of those traps, then be stuck there to die of thirst and starvation while in tremendous pain.

SANDII MELLEN

Sandpoint