Join thousands of others who have signed up for the Daily Record newsletter.The Scottish SPCA is appealing for information after two dead badgers were found in illegal snares in Lanarkshire.The Society’s special investigations unit was alerted to an incident in Airdrie on Sunday, July 5, in the Lilly Loch area.Another incident was also discovered in Motherwell on Wednesday, July 8, at the football pitch behind the bowling club in Cleland.From 2018 to 2019, the charity dealt with almost 60 incidents involving animals caught in snares.
The majority of these animals were dead on arrival.Scotland’s animal welfare charity supports an outright ban on all snares due to the level of suffering an animal is caused.The snares that killed the badgers.
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