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Urban Wildlife to the humane rescue

N. Van business

caters in critters:

Jolanda Waakilo__
Contributing Writer

GOT a stinky situation with
a skunk who's made itself
s cosy In your cellar with a fit.
ter of newborns)
Call Urban Wildlife
Management,
The North Vancouver business
has the unlque task of removing ant:

nits who have moved inte people's
atHes, chimneys, coals, eaeports,
porehes, even in walls,

Spin Is an especlally busy tne
since animals from plyeons to rac
coons are bearing babies = the com:
pany's three filbtine employees
adawee to an average af'slx calle a day
during the months of Apell, May and
une,

if you think Urban Wildilte
Management kicks the anlouls our,
then kills them == you're wrong,
Rather owner ‘Ted Darling — prides
limself on the humane treatment of
the aninvals' removal,

“Ht's disruptive (or animals when
we remove them," Darling's wile
and company ensployee, Leal sald,
*We focus on doing preventative
work on the house.”

Darliay has had more than 13
years of experience with wild ant:
mals,

Vrat, the mother of the Utter ts
caught and placed ina cage, then her
olbpring are collected,

‘The removal team then eiitedtes
the owners of the home, and. the
crowd that sometimes gathers, about
how to treat the bables and fly moth:
th

The honte ds thes animabprooted
su the eeltters can't gee dita the
house agal,

The litter is placed In a wooden
“baby box" complete with warn
nesting material, aid placed as near
as posalble te where the litter was
orginally, ‘That way the when the
mother Wy freed, she can find fer
brood easily,

The mother will usually move her
kiddies to a new alte or more rarely,
the mother may abandon hee litter,

f strays do result: from the
removal, the company takes them to
Monlea's Wildlife Shelter,

The average cost of relocadng
cosy critters? About $188,

tor some people, the tee Is worth
ihe humane treatment of the an

mals,

“Ltle kids will call us wanting to
know what happened to the babies,”

kab sald, “We usually keep track,

The company guarantees Its
work, andl hasn't had to. re-animal
proof a home too often,

“We have a one per cent callback
rate, where antmaly do come back,”
stie sald,

Urban Wildlife Management even
offers free advice over the phone,

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RACHELLE Rovner hoids one of four baby raccoons found alone and hungry in
a hole in the family's porch attic Wednesday. These coons weren't rescued by
urban Wildlife Managoment (see story above), and will probably end up at the

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