DEEP RIVER, Conn. -- An animal rehabilitation center in Deep River said it cannot save an owl found in a steel-jaw leg-hold trap and will have to euthanize the bird.

The barred owl was found on Clark Gate Road in Moodus Wednesday with a trapping device hanging from its right foot.

Officials captured the bird and took it to Deep River, where it will be euthanized Friday morning.

A similar incident sparked outrage among animal activists in January. The rehabilitation center, A Place Called Hope, called for a ban of the traps, but the law never made it past the Judiciary Committee.

Members of the center said they will continue to push for the traps to be made illegal.