Best practices for nuisance wildlife control operators in New York State

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CH 5: Step three: Do it 

Learning objectives for step three

1. Name five nonlethal and two lethal techniques for removing animals from an area.
    
2. Once you hit the road, you don't want to waste time driving back to the office. Describe five pieces of equipment you'd keep in your truck so you could respond to a wide variety of nuisance wildlife calls.
    
3. Which two animal removal techniques require additional training and other licenses or permits?
    
4. List six trapping tips that apply to the use of both live traps and kill traps.
    
5. You need to submit a raccoon for rabies testing. Which killing method can you use?
    
6. Describe how you'd clean an attic that had a family of raccoons living in it. What would you do if they'd been living in the chimney, instead?

With your overall problem-solving strategy in mind, now it's time to choose the techniques that will help you accomplish your goals. If you decided to do nothing, well then—you're done. If you'd like to make the environment less attractive to the nuisance animal, you'll find more suggestions listed in the species accounts in Appendices B and C. This manual won't go into any more detail about methods used to reduce local wildlife populations, but you can learn more about that from some of the resources listed in Appendix E. In this section, we'll explain some of the best practices for repelling, removing, excluding, and killing animals.

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