I was appalled and saddened to hear that the Indiana Natural Resources Commission is proposing to allow 250 bobcats to be killed across 40 counties using archaic methods like steel traps, strangling wire snares and cage traps. Why? Not for any scientific or conservation purpose. Instead, it is simply to allow the miniscule number of trappers in the state – about 4,000 statewide – to add bobcats to the list of animals they can kill while participating in the barbaric hobby of trophy hunting.