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news Bad timing to discuss humane culling of wildlife
Cool reception for trapper Kevin Diakiw Black Press
His timing couldn’t have been much worse. Tim Killey, a self-styled hobby trapper, appeared before Surrey council this week to urge them to stop a ban on leg-hold traps. His pitch Monday came immediately after another group’s plea to ban the chaining of dogs, a presentation that included heartwrenching pictures of dogs hanged to death by their own tethers. It was an emotionally rattled council that braced itself to hear Killey’s argument that he can kill animals humanely. Killey was there because coun-
cil is planning to ban leg-hold traps at the request of a group called Fur Bearer Defenders. He asserted that the traps used nowadays allow for a completely humane kill. Mayor Dianne Watts told Killey the city would rather not kill any animal, preferring instead to relocate them. Killey noted that approach is laudable but overused. He said often people will trap raccoons, take them to a green space, which unbeknownst to them, is already fully populated with raccoons. The animal will then simply head to another area and become
someone else’s problem. Killey described himself as a hobby trapper, making just enough from sales of skins to pay for the gasoline in his truck. To underline his point about trap effectiveness, Killey approached council with traps, loaded them and set them off. Killey even asked council for a volunteer to put their hand in a leg-hold trap, and when they declined, he set it off on his own hand to show how painless it is. The next day, Watts said she appreciated Killey’s presentation, but that the city will be forging ahead with a ban on the leg-hold traps as planned.
Council’s response surprises Olson from page A1 Outside of the campaign, Olson, founder of A Better Life Dog Rescue, is fighting more than three dozen charges related to incidents dating back as far as October 2006. Arrested last November in Coquitlam after an extensive dogtheft investigation, Olson is due back in Surrey Provincial Court May 1, and is set to be tried May 2 and 3 on a trio of charges related to breaching conditions. Olson has described the pleth-
ora of charges as “a witch hunt.” it was all about picking the right Monday, she was ecstatic with moment. council’s reaction to her impas“The timing was just right, sioned plea. because we’d heard ❝It is just “I’m absolutely Surrey was thinkstaggering for us, thrilled. The ing about changing response was far bet- better than we had their bylaws, so to ter than we anticido it before it got to ever hoped for.❞ pated,” Olson said that point, it probaJanet Olson after the meeting. bly would have been “It is just staggering fruitless.” for us, better than we had ever The issue could go to the hoped for.” LMLGA as early as its upcoming Asked why she hadn’t tried to May 9 annual general meeting in lobby council before, Olson said Whistler.
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