BACK TO YOU. BILL, THANK YOU. IN JUST EIGHT DAYS, LOCAL AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS HAVE TRAPPED MORE THAN 600 RACCOONS IN IT’S IT’S PART OF A RARE VARIANT OF RABIES FROM SPREADING. TONIGHT, WE’RE HEARING ...
In Ohio, trapping raccoons without a permit is allowed but relocation is illegal due to disease spread. Raccoons can transmit diseases like rabies, distemper and parvovirus to other animals and humans ...
Bait will be raining down from the skies over the next month in Western Pennsylvania as federal, state and county officials work to distribute oral vaccine treatments for raccoons to prevent the ...
John Reed and his two passengers finished loading his Bell 206 Long Ranger helicopter and took off from Manassas Regional Airport on a low-altitude bombing run. Their mission: to wage a type of ...
ALEX, JULIE LAYERS. THANKS, BILL. LOCAL AND FEDERAL HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE TRYING TO VACCINATE ANIMALS WITH BAIT THE SIZE OF KETCHUP PACKETS. WELL, THOSE WILL BE THROWN OUT IN THIS 62 SQUARE MILE AREA ...
This year’s raccoon bounty bill, House File 2665, is state-sanctioned, taxpayer-subsidized animal cruelty. The legislation’s goal is to incentivize the trapping, clubbing, and skinning of raccoons.
This article originally appeared on Undark. This August, government airplanes and helicopters have been dropping tiny parcels from the sky for raccoons to find. Each one is about the size of a ketchup ...
NEW YORK – Early one morning last month, Laura Dudley Plimpton found herself in Forest Park, in Queens, staring at two captured raccoons. It was not the first time that Plimpton, an ecologist at ...