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Trapping live animals series

Dear Picture Diary- Animal Trapping Is Hard-Ode To The Pros

24th Dear Diary, 5:30 comes early but I can’t put off checking my live traps until the afternoon when my regular pest route is done. Who knew it was the law I had to check these things once every 24 hours? Why isn’t a squirrel classified a rodent? Their freakin RATS WITH BUSHY TAILS for [...]

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Picture Diary Of A Wanna Be Trapper

28th Dear Diary, this has been a really rough week. I thought this trapping thing would be such an easy add on to my business but here it is the end of the week and I’m exhausted. As if the the squirrels bats and raccoon I chased around this week wasn’t enough. The outrageous expectations [...]

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Are Trappers Unfairly Limited?

Every three months the licensed pest control firms in Florida get a report from the state listing all the violations and those who committed them for that quarter. It’s a public list and one that I hope I’m never on. Many of the infractions seem ticky tacky but I understand rules are rules. Violations range [...]

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Get rid of your Armadillo

I often get questions on getting rid of Armadillos. Let me rephrase that, I often get asked to spray the yard for grubs and worms which in turn my customer says–will get rid of this destructive pest. Now I make my living treating bugs and this should be a welcome conversation for me but alas [...]

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Trapping animals alive in my yard ‘A disaster’

Well what I thought would be a nice series of posts didn’t turn out so well. Two straight days of rain, an unbelievable work schedule and a neighbor with a shotgun. Yea that about sums it up Our poor critter, which turned out to be an Armadillo wasn’t happy enough with my yard; apparently he [...]

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Trapping animals alive ‘in my yard’ day #1

To verify what you have you have a couple of option; if you visually see it of course that’s all you’ll need. Most animals of this sort however come out at night to the wee hours of the morning; if you’re not up then you may never know. To determine your critter, simply put talcum or baby powder at the entry.

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