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rules for posting pictures
« Thread Started on Apr 7, 2006, 10:05am »

Please feel free to share your pictures with our members. The photo pages are always the most frequented threads on all forums. Please follow these few simple guidelines. Thank you.

We encourage you to share your successes with us but please follow these few simple guidelines with your postings:

Absolutely NO posting videos of trapped animals unless the staff has viewed them first. If you have a catch video you would like to share, please send it to a staff member so we can view it for approval.

Absolutely NO TALK of the catchings of domestics or other non targets unless you follow it up with it being released unharmed. IF YOU PUT A CATCH TOTAL IN YOUR PROFILE - DO NOT ADD DOMESTIC ANIMALS TO YOUR LIST.

ABSOLUTELY NO CLOSEUP PHOTOS OF TRAPS ON FEET. I know a lot of you guys like to show pics of good pad catches but not everyone uses the same discretion. We seen some real doozies posted on forums and we don't want them here.

No photos showing blood, broken bones or other injuries caused by your traps. Traps are designed to restrain animals and/or be used as a quick kill device. We don't mind (some) blood in hunting pics since bullets are supposed to cause bone and tissue damage, TRAPS ARE NOT. Pumping poor taste catch pics into the media will only hurt us all and strip us of our rights.

No photos of animals looking over stressed or forelorn. Post a pic on here of a mud covered coon, pulling hard on a trap chain and looking pathetic, half froze and forelorn and it'll end up on a anti's billboard in no time. These are the type of pics that'll encourage women to send a check to PETA to help them eliminate trapping. Don't blame the anti's when you help fuel the fire that burns us. Again, We encourage you to share your successes with us ~ Just PLEASE use some discretion here. Catch pics containing animals that resemble melted fudgecicles are not welcome here.

It's not just poor taste photos that get regurgitated into the media. Careless blabber about multi bat swing dispatches and other forms of (diarrhea of the mouth) will have us all trapping with cages while our footholds sit in the scrap yard.

Please do not elaborate on your escaped critters. If you had an escape and feel you need to broadcast it, then a simple (escape) will be a suitable definition. Talk of chewed off feet, missing toes and other injuries will not be tolerated. The anti's have a field day with this bulldooky so DON'T FEED THE ANTI's.

The guidelines above are here to protect the rights of all sportsmen. We lose more and more of our rights to hunt and trap every year as the anti's gain ground on us. Regurgitated unethical postings can have a very strong influence on the non trapping community and they will always outnumber us in the ballot box. Trapping will ALWAYS be regarded as cruelty to animals ~ Unethical posting will ALWAYS reinforce that.

Please be a responsible and ethical sportsman.

« Last Edit: Oct 12, 2012, 6:52am by JC Desclos »

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