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Link: Peninsula Clarion A retired sled dog in the kennel of Soldotna musher Jane Faulkner survived with minor injury the crushing jaws of a conibear trap set less than 10 feet off a trail near town. As Faulkner's trainer Mindee Morning left for a run Nov. 21, her dog Lucy broke her chain and followed the team. Morning let the dog run loose and then, less than two miles from residential areas along Gas Well Road, heard Lucy start "screaming." Morning couldn't free the dog from the trap and set off with the team to get help. Lucy spent over an hour in the trap before Faulkner and a friend arrived with bolt cutters and released her. A Fish and Game technician said the trap was legally set but questioned the experience of the person who set it. People who take their dogs into the woods can check Terrierman.com for instructions on how to release a dog from a conibear trap.