Shocking video appears to show horse carcass used as bait outside Merritt, B.C. – BC

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Footage from a trail camera on Crown land outside Merritt, B.C., is raising eyebrows among some animal rights advocates, appearing to show a trapper using a dead horse as bait for large predators.

The video dated in December shared with Global News shows a horse in the woods with its entrails exposed. Produced and captioned by the Toronto-based Animal Justice, it also contains footage of a man with a gun walking around the horse.

The captions state that traps were set near the horse’s decomposing body. At different times, stitched together by the animal law charity, the man appears to set traps near the horse’s entrails, and to have shot a coyote and dragged it away in a sled.

“We find it shocking that an entire horse carcass was being used as bait for a trap. I have …