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Al 6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 16, 2005

‘trap set in'a residential. area
: -on th ‘bench:

the.. desperate - feline* Nov.
7-around’3°p.m. She’ says”
“a. flash: of: black and” white”
caught her eye as “she: was —

. driving ‘and as she slowed

down she realized. it was’ a.

© cat in a trapper’s trap: .

- itis was spooked and tried to °
“Tun. away and its paws kept. .
getting . ‘tangled | up. inthe’.

trap,” she recalls, “I. finally -
* got. ahold of it but trying to.

understand’ how these- traps |

come apart is next. to. impos-; :

. sible.” hia

a “Unable. to: free the ° “cat
“> from “ the’ trap’s. jaws, she
carefully. loaded the hurt:an-.

_imal into her car and brought

_ it, te-Jocal’ veterinarian. Dr. -
- David Farkvam. ° :
“It’s a picture: that will |

be frozen in my head for the .
. Test of my life and the sound.

was indescribable of it: try-
ing to draw breath — it: was
jst awful,” -Neys: says.

‘Once at the: vet’s it took .

three: people to free: the cat
from the deadly:mechanism.. -

. HAS Itried to get close to

rs a,

seen anything like it.
“It’s like one of. those e leg .
“hold type traps without the .

- teethiit looks like one of the...
« traps you would use in the’ ;
~‘water for beaver.” =: & 5:
“I don’t know if ‘they. .
were trapping cats or. what —
the reasoning was for-it...it ..

was unbelievable to be hon-
est with you.”

Neys is convinced ‘the -

trap was set on purpose and.
she’s furious that anyone
‘ would do such a thing, par-
ticularly in a residential area,

«. Where an unsuspecting child o

“could have been injured.
“To me it was absolutely:

‘malicious and premeditated .
“+ somebody wanted to: hurt

‘an animal, ‘a :domestic ani-
mal,” she says. -
“This: ‘was a trapper’ S

“trap. This was meant to hurt.“
_adog or acat and remember.. }

this is a residential area.”

Neys says if someone is.

‘having problems with do-

mestic animals they should |
.contact the City of Terrace

animal control officers. in-

stead of resorting to “inhu-

mane methods.:

: The cat has since received
some medical treatment but
Dr. Farkvam believes it may

- Dr. Farkvam says it is .have suffered some neuro- —

THE. METAL ti ‘trap pictured here: nearly ended this cat’ s life. before it was rescued by
a a local woman. and taken to veterinarian Dr. David Farkvam for treatment.

logical damage.

The. cat will be taken ta.
_.the Terrace animal. shelter
~ where its owner ‘may claim

it or. it will be put up. for

adoption. Animal control of- .

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-sistent. chemical

| City closes leisure pool, hot tub

aquatic centre will re-open
this week after it was or-

‘dered closed by a local |

health inspector two weeks
ago. ‘The. leisure pool was

also ordered closed but re- -

opened last week.

The order came after
several weeks of fluctuating
chemical levels stemming
from the’ incomplete instal-
lation of a new chlorinating
system when the pool shut

down for its annual refit in’
: September.

Iqbal Kalfi, the manager
for public health protection
in the northwest, said incon-
teadings
léd to the closures. “It can
be an issue and that’ s why

at caught in. metal trap.

“just straight tuck” that, the. .

D8 ”.. cat wasn’t killed. ‘He’ s never.
AL LOCAL. ‘woman - ‘is: ‘ap-

‘ palled’ after’ ‘rescuing a do a

fiver Tammy Mclean says
‘an incident like this hasn’t...
" happened fora long. time. If’
. people need to trap a cat hu- ©

mane devices are. available
for rent at the shelter. .. -

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we don’t want to take any
chances,” he.said.
In September the aquatic

centre switched from its
distribution .

chlorine | gas.
system to a solid puck sys-
tem in all of the pools, says

city director of leisure ser-'
_vices Ross Milnthorp. While
the main pool hashad no’
problems with the switch-.°

over and subsequent water

chemistry levels, the centre

has experienced ongoing

problems with the control
units with the two smaller

leisure pools. Those units

control. the flow of water

over a stack of chlorinated

_ pucks.
Milnthorp.says the com-
pany hired to install the

units, BI Pure Water from ©

Vancouver, “left Terrace
before the installation was

complete and before train-

after chemical levels fluctuate

CITY OFFICIALS are op-.
timistic the hot.tub-at the .

ing the pool’ s employees to
properly use the system.

The company has since -

returned and training did
take place as did a complete
installation. It did so at its
own expense.

_ The pools must have con-
sistent chemical readings for
a full 24 hours followed by

- another 24 hours of bacte-
‘ria free readings before they

can re-open.

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