A horrific, excruciating death awaits wolves, swift foxes or any wild animal that comes in contact with deadly sodium cyanide or Compound 1080.
Did you know that each year the Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services kills more than 10,000 wild animals with highly toxic sodium cyanide and sodium monofluoroacetate (known as Compound 1080)?
You can help stop the use of these toxic chemicals on our wildlife. Act now to urge the Environmental Protection Agency to ban these deadly poisons.
These poisons don’t just threaten their intended targets. They can also poison any threatened or endangered species, people or pets that happen to come into contact with them.
Domesticated dogs and a whole host of other non-target species, including kit foxes, ringtails, javelinas, and swift foxes have been killed by sodium cyanide used in M-44 trigger traps. M-44s have also killed California condors and wolves.
For the lucky few, death comes within minutes—but far too often, it’s a slow and agonizing spiral that can take hours.
It’s an awful way to die. The last moments of life are cursed with dizziness, convulsions or excruciating pain. For the lucky few, death comes within minutes—but far too often, it’s a slow and agonizing spiral that can take hours.
Take action now. Urge EPA officials to end the use of these deadly poisons on our wildlife and help us reach our goal of sending 50,000 messages.
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This death must be simular to having your guts riped out and hanging. That is how the wolves kill Elk. Just stand there waiting to bleed to death. Not a morsel is eaten. Killing just for fun!!!
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Wolves don’t kill for fun in the same way that humans do. Occasionally, they will kill more than they can eat – called surplus killing – but as wolves are scavengers, they normally rely on this extra meat as a food source.
Wikipedia has a pretty good description of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_wolf
“When prey is vulnerable and abundant, wolves may occasionally surplus kill. Such incidences are common in domestic animals, but rare in the wild. In the wild, surplus killing primarily occurs during late winter or spring, when snow is unusually deep (thus impeding the movements of prey)[112] or during the denning period, when wolves require a ready supply of meat when denbound.[113] Surplus killing may also occur when adult wolves are teaching their young to hunt.[114]”
Again, these are the rare exceptions, as elk and deer are not easy to kill unless there are circumstances (like disease, or a bad winter leading to starvation) that have weakened these animals.
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