Raccoon caught, drowned in the trash in Vancouver Metro

A raccoon died after being trapped in a living trap for more than a week, and then placed in a trash can filled with water to drown slowly.

Staff from Critter Care Wildlife Society – who provide care and rehabilitation to mammalian species originating from B.C – say they are agitated after treating the "extremely inhuman" case of animal cruelty.

Animal care keeper Brooklynn Martin said the staff were called to a property in Burnaby on Friday at 13 o'clock after the young adult female raccoon was found by a tenant who was barely able to live.

Martin said he thought the owner of the property had put the trap about a week and a half ago and the tenant assumed that the rat had been released.

"It seems that the raid was left in the trap and he put it in a garbage can and filled it with water and left the trap there," she said.

"As soon as the tenant knew what had happened, he immediately called and was very upsetting asking what he could do before he got there."

The tenant took the rat trap, dried it, and put hot water bottles around it to keep it warm until the staff arrived.

"He was an adult adult rattle and he was so weak and so mentally that the departure of my tenant and staff was just a gloves-free maneuver," Martin said.

Martin told the Curier that he had been one of the worst cases of cruelty he'd encountered in his three years in wildlife.

"This raccoon was stuck in a trap without food and was basically forced into the water without any possibility of going out," she said.

"And the nose was scratched, all the nails on her paws were plucked, the paws were raw, she struggled to get out so hard, and there was no hair left in the queue.

"Every case of cruelty is bad and you deal with the situation and cause you sadness, but this, in my opinion, is probably the most serious one we have to deal with."

She said it was customary for humans to put down traps for the troublemakers, and it was not illegal if they were done in a human manner.

"If you do not want your property, you have a radius of 10 km around the house where you can catch them and then move the animal elsewhere," Martin explained.

"But legally you are not allowed to put a trap and leave everything there for more than 24 hours and this raccoon has been in a trap for over a week.

"We did a lot of cruelty, especially foot traps, and kill the animals and cause them pain.

"But physically torturing the animal and trying to drown it – it all got to the center, all the staff was shaken enough.

"The way that this trap was used was extremely cruel and extremely inhumane."

The wildlife company posted about the incident on its Facebook page, saying "cruelty does not happen today!" The post has so far received more than 1,000 support and has been divided over 300 times.

The staff did everything they can to save the creature, but unfortunately died on Friday night.

Martin said the case was reported to the authorities, including the BC SPCA Cruel Line and the Furbare Animals Association.

In a separate incident, BC SPCA issued a warning to people about the dangers of pest control after having received a call from a public member in the Arbutus Ridge area of ​​Vancouver who found a racco caught inside an electrified home cage cages.

In a statement, BC SPCA said the caller had heard on the young rattlesnake crying all night and found the rat trapped in a modified cat trap on an adjacent property.

"The trap was plugged into an extension cable, apparently causing an electric current to pass through the metal trap. The caller immediately disconnected the trap and released the rat, then called the BC SPCA pet assistance line."

It's illegal to use the electric shock on the raccoons.

Rather than DIY harmful and inefficient methods, BC SPCA first encourages the public remove raccoon attractors and try light human harassment to discourage raccoons, and see it best practices for raccoons.

If a raccoon enters a house or a store, call him AnimalKind Company which uses exclusion techniques instead of capturing, moving or moving.

BC SPCA does not recommend catching and moving wildlife.