Those steel traps are an abomination.

The people around here use one made on the same principle for catching rats.

I wouldn't have them on my place for any money.

I believe we've got to give an account for all the unnecessary suffering we put on animals." "You'll have some to answer for, John, according to your own story," said Mrs.Wood.
"I have suffered already," he said.

"Many a night I've lain on my bed and groaned, when I thought of needless cruelties I'd put upon animals when I was a young, unthinking boy--and I was pretty carefully brought up, too, according to our light in those days.