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Pro Tips to Keep Wildlife Out of Your Home: 🌱 Block Access Points: Check for and seal any gaps or holes in your home’s exterior where animals could enter. This includes vents, chimneys, and cracks in the foundation. 🌱 Keep Food Sources Secure: Store food, including pet food, in airtight containers, and make sure trash bins are tightly sealed. Don’t leave food outside that could attract wildlife. 🌱 Trim Trees and Shrubs: Keep vegetation around your home well-trimmed to prevent animals from using branches as pathways to your roof or attic. 🌱 Install Motion-Activated Lights: Bright lights can deter nocturnal animals like raccoons and skunks from approaching your property.🌱 🌱 Use Chimney Caps: Install caps on chimneys and vents to prevent animals like birds, bats, and squirrels from entering your home. Protect your home with these simple tips, and if wildlife ever does find a way in, give us a call! ☎️ 224-431-7956 #furbusters #mchenrycountyil #lakecountyil #wildliferemoval #squirrelseason

Pro Tips to Keep Wildlife Out of Your Home: 🌱 Block Access Points: Check for and seal any gaps or holes in your home’s exterior where animals could enter. This includes vents, chimneys, and cracks in the foundation. 🌱 Keep Food Sources Secure: Store food, including pet food, in airtight containers, and make sure trash bins are tightly sealed. Don’t leave food outside that could attract wildlife. 🌱 Trim Trees and Shrubs: Keep vegetation around your home well-trimmed to prevent animals from using branches as pathways to your roof or attic. 🌱 Install Motion-Activated Lights: Bright lights can deter nocturnal animals like raccoons and skunks from approaching your property.🌱 🌱 Use Chimney Caps: Install caps on chimneys and vents to prevent animals like birds, bats, and squirrels from entering your home. Protect your home with these simple tips, and if wildlife ever does find a way in, give us a call! ☎️ 224-431-7956 #furbusters #mchenrycountyil #lakecountyil #wildliferemoval #squirrelseason

Re: START NOW: PROSECUTE ALL HUNTERS WHO KILL WOLF PUPS ANYWHERE AND ANY ANIMALS AS TROPHIES + SAVE, PROTECT, PRESERVE AND DEVELOP OUR HEALTHY ROBUST AMERICAN WILDLIFE. To the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, I am writing to urge you to protect endangered wolf pups, bear cubs and ALL vulnerable animals being hunted and murdered just for being alive AND TO START PROSECUTING ALL HUNTERS WHO KILL WOLF PUPS ANYWHERE AND ANY ANIMALS AS TROPHIES. These cowardly murders are contradictory to “The American Way” of guarding our natural land AND WILD ANIMALS- BOTH ENDANGERED AND NOT YET ENDANGERED SPECIES. This is a bipartisan HUMANE AMERICAN FREEDOM AND PROTECTION CALL FOR IMMEDIATE CORRECTIVE CHANGES TO PRESERVE AMERICAN ANIMALS AND THEIR FREEDOM TO LIVE PEACEFULLY IN THEIR NATURAL HABITATS. * *79 members of Congress have urged the National Park Service to RETAIN WILDLIFE PROTECTIONS in Alaska FOR EXAMPLE, but President Donald Trump’s former administration stubbornly steamrolled ahead regardless of level headed appeals, and a peculiar maneuver, they instead favored the heinous and callous trophy hunters. Now, Idaho is following that same lead, and the potential for a state-by-state snowball effect is rapidly growing. THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO BE AMERICAS HEROES. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Pro Tips to Keep Wildlife Out of Your Home: 🌱 Block Access Points: Check for and seal any gaps or holes in your home’s exterior where animals could enter. This includes vents, chimneys, and cracks in the foundation. 🌱 Keep Food Sources Secure: Store food, including pet food, in airtight containers, and make sure trash bins are tightly sealed. Don’t leave food outside that could attract wildlife. 🌱 Trim Trees and Shrubs: Keep vegetation around your home well-trimmed to prevent animals from using branches as pathways to your roof or attic. 🌱 Install Motion-Activated Lights: Bright lights can deter nocturnal animals like raccoons and skunks from approaching your property.🌱 🌱 Use Chimney Caps: Install caps on chimneys and vents to prevent animals like birds, bats, and squirrels from entering your home. Protect your home with these simple tips, and if wildlife ever does find a way in, give us a call! ☎️ 224-431-7956 #furbusters #mchenrycountyil #lakecountyil #wildliferemoval #squirrelseason

Ever wonder how bats manage to sneak into your home? These clever creatures can fit through tiny openings as small as a dime! From loose shingles to gaps in vents, bats find the sneakiest ways to make your home theirs. Keep an eye out for signs like droppings or squeaky noises, especially at dusk. If you suspect bats have moved in, it's essential to act quickly for humane removal and exclusion. Protect your home and loved ones—call the experts at Skedaddle Humane Wildlife Control! 🚫🦇 #bat #infestation #colony #homeprotection #urbanwildlife #humane #skedaddle

In 2022, Wildlife Matters launched a campaign to protect animals that are killed for their body parts. Each year, between 35,000 and 50,000 Elephants are slaughtered for their tusks, falling victim to relentless and cruel greed. The illegal wildlife trade, worth billions of dollars annually, is fueled by skyrocketing prices for ivory and other animal parts—prices that have risen over 1000% since the 1990s. Let’s put an end to this trade by 2025 because #WildlifeMatters.

Our wildlife hospital received 7 animals stuck to glue traps such as a black racer and a palm warbler this past week. If you find an animal stuck to a glue trap, please put the glue trap and the animal that is stuck on the trap in a box with a lid and air holes. Please do not try to remove the animal from the trap. The stress can cause harm along with possibly injuring the animal further. Once in a box, please bring them to your nearest wildlife hospital. From there, our trained professionals will be able to help the animal. Please also refrain from using glue traps. Glue traps as a pest control method is inhumane. If you have a nuisance wildlife situation, please call us at 239-262-2273. In most situations, we will be able to offer solutions that aren’t lethal and address the core of the problem.

When it comes to species of conservation concern, threatened and endangered species, it shouldn’t be a state’s rights BS issue. The Feds should step in and tell the state how to manage populations and the Feds need to listen and act on solid science and not politics, neither local, state nor federal. Then again, I know some federal agencies that need to be reworked and there are times when states and Tribes have to fight the Feds when they’re on the wrong side of an issue. Until we separate management decision making from politics, we’re always going to be fighting this uphill battle. It’s a battle we must continue to fight. It really is up to us. Voting does matter. I acknowledge we still need to call and pressure politicians to do the right thing but it would be a lot easier if we just started electing better class politicians in the first place. I think the real work going forward is going to be in the Courts mostly. Ultimately, we need to change laws though to change SCOTUS in America if we want true protections. This election matters. Voting matters. Until then, keep fighting! Your work matters and it’s important and I wish outside pressure would work in Wyoming and other states that favor hunters and cattle over all others

More progress on animal icon #5. Still a long way to go! I will keep you updated. This is a Red Wolf. Red wolves used to roam throughout the eastern seaboard from Pennsylvania to Florida and as far west as Texas. Today, North Carolina’s Albemarle Peninsula is home to the only confirmed wild red wolves in existence. While red wolves play a vital and unique biological role within their ecosystem, the species has declined more than 85 percent in the last decade (2010-2020) from roughly 130 to 15 wolves. Habitat loss, wolf-vehicle collisions, gunshot mortality and hybridization with coyotes threaten the future of red wolves in North Carolina. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has made significant advances with its Red Wolf Recovery Program in recent years; however, there is still much work beyond the scope of current successes. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this 11”x17” egg tempera and 24k gold leaf on birch panel will be donated to the Wolf Recovery Program https://lnkd.in/eH6mwWMx

🐻 NJ Bear Hunt Update: Fighting for Wildlife Protection‼️ Hunters killed 472 black bears during the two segments mandated by the Fish and Game Council, making this the second-highest kill count in six years. Segment A Archery OR Muzzleloader: (Oct. 14-19) 397 bears killed Segment B Shotgun OR Muzzleloader: (Dec. 9-14) 75 bears killed We remain steadfast in our fight to end the bear hunt and hold the Fish and Game Council accountable. Our lawsuit is a crucial step toward ensuring that New Jersey’s wildlife management prioritizes preservation and compassion. How You Can Help: 1. Save the Date: Tune in on February 4th to hear our oral argument before the Appellate Division. (More info to come) 2. Spread the Word: Share this post with your network to raise awareness about the unjust bear hunt. 3. Support Our Efforts: Donate or Take Action to help us continue this critical fight. Our fight is not over! Together we can end this bear hunt once and for all 🐻❤️