When Should You Call A WildLife Control Professional Noticing Sick or Diseased Animal




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Summary: <br> <br> <br> Steven Vantassel I will talk today about helping your clients understand when they should you call a wildlife control professional and how to know if the animal is possibly sick or diseased? When is the trigger point on when we as professionals need to act? <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Home Owner Pay For Wildlife Control Not The City<br> <br> <br> Sometimes when clunk customers call and they’re wondering<br><br> know they see a raccoon in the backyard and they’re worried about the safety of<br><br> the children. Well I used to get a lot of these types of calls when I was doing<br><br> fieldwork back in Massachusetts people would call about a raccoon they saw go<br><br> through the yard and they were worried about the children so I would give them.<br><br> Price the all of the sudden they would say well the children. <br> <br> <br> Why isn’t the city taking care of this now. Sometimes I ask<br><br> them you know aren’t your taxes high enough. And then once they realized that<br><br> they had to pay personally for this type of work. The children became magically<br><br> safe. So the reality is sometimes that people think something’s a danger if<br><br> they think they can get a service done for free. But once they have to pay for<br><br> it they realized they didn’t need it. After all. <br> <br> <br> Animal Are on Your Property All The Time<br> <br> <br> And the reality is they didn’t that people have to realize<br><br> that there are raccoons cruising through their yard. On a probably a regular<br><br> basis and they just happen to see one. So just because an animal is out during<br><br> the day it’s typically nocturnal doesn’t necessarily mean. That the raccoon or<br><br> skunk is necessarily disease could be. But there’s no guarantee of that because<br><br> there’s a lot of particular reasons why any animal may be moving around. <br> <br> <br> For example Female raccoons during the summer sometimes they<br><br> get tired of the young and they get hot and they’ll actually come out onto a<br><br> tree branch and just hang out. Maybe the female needs to. Go to a new area to<br><br> move her young. And sometimes you don’t know if an animal has been disturbed<br><br> from its den and its leaving that location in broad daylight not because it<br><br> wants to but simply because the conditions that it was under were too<br><br> intolerable<br> <br> <br> It felt threatened and it needed to move on. So the point is<br><br> this how do you help people understand when they need to act when is it<br><br> appropriate to call a wildlife control professional to come and remove<br> <br> <br> An animal. This is where we have to get into the issue of<br><br> animal behavior. And so a lot of people tend to think that well it’s out during<br><br> It’s a nocturnal animal like a raccoon. It’s out during the daytime therefore<br><br> it must be rabid not true. And certainly I hope none of the listeners of this<br><br> particular podcast. Try to. Exploit that concept that mythology because it’s<br><br> simply not true. Now it could be true but there’s no guarantee of that. And<br><br> again I gave you some illustrations earlier as to why that would be the case. <br> <br> <br> Some Clues An Animal Could Be Sick Or Diseased<br> <br> <br> But there is a situation when an animal is looks like it’s<br><br> trembling shaking. Walking in circles. Disoriented. It looks unhealthy by the<br><br> way it’s limping perhaps. Excuse me. It may also be a situation where the<br><br> raccoon is or the skunk. Is it simply looks like it has crusty Nissen its eyes.<br> <br> <br> <br>