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WAITSBURG – After two days missing, Kate Hockersmith, of Waitsburg, began to worry about her cat, Finn MacCool.

"He's an indoor cat during the day, then he goes out at night," Hockersmith explained.

Hardly one to pass up an opportunity for food or affection, Finn made his way to their Seventh Street home eventually. Along with him he dragged a foot-long, steel claw trap which had caught and broken two of his toes.

Hockersmith did not see which direction Finn came in from, only that "he came up silently, completely covered in burrs."

According to Washington State law, use of any steel-jawed leg...