22 Sep, 2020 @ 17:15
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Dog and owner caught by illegal trap in Spain’s Murcia

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A DOG and its owner were hurt by an illegal spring trap in Murcia.

The animal had stumbled into the dangerous mechanism and its owner was injured while trying to free his pet.

Guardia Civil say the trap was set in the municipality of Ricote to catch either foxes or wild boar.

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ILLEGAL: Spring traps are indiscriminate

They are now investigating two people for crimes against flora, fauna and domestic animals and animal abuse.

The30 centimetre trap was hidden on a farm near a hunting reserve. The dog was accompanying its owner, who was harvesting almonds when the incident occurred.

The SEPRONA Nature Protection Service says such traps are indiscriminate and illegal, and are dangerous to humans as well as animals.

Police say laying these traps can be punished with jail terms of up to two years, as well as the withdrawal of hunting licences.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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