photo of wild raccoon

by Guest Blogger Emily Davenport Executive Director, Founder Rocky Mountain Wildlife Alliance   We’ve heard this story before… “A raccoon was trapped and relocated, now I have a bunch of squirrels trying to get into the attic.” Or “A skunk was relocated, and now there are rats in the crawlspace.” Wildlife has its checks and…

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Lessons From a Mangy Coyote: Why Anticoagulant Rodenticides Must Go

By Guest Blogger Will Falk, Writer, Lawyer, and Environmental Activist Edited by Sunny Weber, Author, Behaviorist, Humane Educator   Heartbreak in the Wild The first time I saw a coyote with mange my heart broke. Most of her fur was gone. Her skin, covered with scabs and lesions, had a sickly pink pallor. Her tail…

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Spring House Guests

By Jack Murphy, CEO of Urban Wildlife Rescue Spring is almost here and that means one thing–babies. Although mice, rats, rabbits and pigeons have young year around, most animals give birth in the spring. The majority of wild animals give birth to and raise their young outside, but squirrels and raccoons sometimes choose human habitats to…

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The Inadvertent Urban Animal Trap–Window Wells!

by Jack Murphy If you live in a house that has a basement, you probably have window wells, also called egress windows. A window well is a hole around a basement window that allows light to enter the basement and also offers human residents a means of escape in case of fire. Unfortunately, window wells…

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