SnareWatch is an information-sharing and reporting facility about snaring in the UK.
SnareWatch is an information-sharing and reporting facility about snaring in the UK.
If there is a live animal in the snare call the relevant animal welfare charity.
Scottish SPCA
Animal Helpline 03000 999 999
RSPCA
Cruelty line 0300 1234 999
USPCA
Animal Information Line 028 3025 1000, caller ID required
Record the incident using our Snarewatch report form
If you have any concerns about the use of snares, anywhere in the UK, you can share them with us on the SnareWatch website.
You can tell us if your pet was caught in a snare, report findings of animals trapped in snares, raise concerns about possible illegal misuse of snares or simply let us know if you’re worried about snares you have seen in a particular area. More about SnareWatch...
The animal was found caught in a snare alongside the River Calder and would have suffered terribly before being put out of its misery.
A snare left a cat choking to death in the countryside near Truro. The device garrotted the ginger tom which was left needing emergency lifesaving surgery.
Mongrel puppy Fortune was only a few months old when she was found in a terrible state by the side of the road. One of her back legs was badly damaged and we think she’d been caught in a snare trap.
A cat returned home with a snare around her back legs, so tight that her owner could not remove it. She was in a lot of pain and extremely scared. She had obviously managed to set herself free.
Razor's owner said that he went out on Tuesday morning and did not return until Saturday morning with a snare round him, pulled tight around his stomach.
"In Britain .. a country which likes to be known as a Nation of Animal-Lovers - our wild animals are still being shockingly abused. To change attitudes to these innocent creatures - to put protection in place to safeguard them from cruelty - is a long haul. Based in Edinburgh, OneKind campaigns constantly to make these changes - to move us towards truly civilised treatment of animals in the UK.
In 2011, a prime focus of OneKind's activity is to bring to an end the despicably cruel practice of setting snares for wild animals - which cause them a slow and appallingly painful death. Thousands of snares are set every year, by land owners who make fortunes from tourists who shoot to kill for fun. It's time to put the brakes on this unjustifiable barbarity. Please help OneKind end the cruelty of snares."
Dr Brian May, CBE