The Skunk Whisperer®

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If you want prompt attention to your wildlife dilemmas, please e-mail us at info@totalwildlifecontrol.com visit our main website at www.totalwildlifecontrol.com or call the office at 918-261-4444 or our Oklahoma City office at 405-905-WILD

Truly humane wildlife removal and prevention, done right the first time.

Nobody can totally eliminate wildlife... and why would you want to when we can co-exist?

Many nuisance wildlife control companies trap and euthanize or relocate troublesome wildlife every day. We cannot comprehend how a person could trap animals all day for clients and then come home, drop the tailgate, and kill all of the squirrels, raccoons, opossums and skunks - but they do. There are better, non-traditional answers. We know what to do.

Many wildlife management and pest control companies trap and then "relocate" wild animals. Research has proven time and time again that a large majority of the relocated wild animals die within two weeks! Relocation is not the answer - other animals will soon fill the void in the trapped territory, and your wildlife problem is back again

... because we talk with other companies, we frequently hear the relocation jokes: "Yup, we do humane REMOVAL - but we own the animal once we remove it from their property, and we can do anything we want with it then... if we relocate it into our garbage can, they do not need to know".

The Skunk Whisperer's combined overall effort of making your property unattractive to wildlife via several proven techniques will help you coexist with wildlife without conflicts, or totally eliminate your conflicts.

Trapping all the wildlife in your neighborhood and relocating it ten miles away - again and again - or killing everything that moves that is covered with fur, scales or feathers - is not the right way to take care of your wildlife problem.

Trapping may be repetative when appropriate repairs are not made. If the other services available to hire say that trapping is required to successfully exclude animals from your building, you may be their repeat customer.

There are better answers. We have those answers.

The Skunk Whisperer®,Inc. stands out in the industry because we have pinpointed a niche - we will not needlessly kill, trap or relocate wildlife. We offer comprehensive wildlife damage resolutions – from eviction to repairs.

What differentiates The Skunk Whisperer®,Inc. is our humane nuisance wildlife prevention methods, eviction, versus euthanization. We also operate with only highly-trained, insured and supported wildlife control operators able to solve any wildlife problem. Our company tag line is Truly humane removal and prevention, done right, the first time.

DISCLAIMER

By looking at many of our pictures, one might come to believe that we are saying it is safe to handle wildlife. It is not safe. We have years upon years of training, and all contact is very minimal because a human imprint on wildlife is WRONG. Below, we will further explain.

The Skunk Whisperer®, Inc. does not condone intentionally or unintentionally placing a human imprint on any wild animal, undomesticated animal or wildlife. Many photos were taken with animals being delivered to a licensed, inspected rehabber because of it - note the collar on the coatamundi... wildlife belongs in the wild

Many animals are briefly lifted for photos before being put into a carrier for release or before the actual release. This is certainly no more hands on contact than feeding with a bottle.

Before releasing any wildlife or delivering them to a wildlife rehabber, they are thoroughly inspected for injuries, missing body parts, infections, cuts and scrapes. Many of our photos of handled wildlife are taken during said inspections.

If you run across pictures claiming that I am "mouth feeding" worms to a hawk or other birds, please note that they are birds at our local zoo... stuffed taxidermies - dead a long time ago. Note the backgrounds. These simply make for funny pictures.

Other photos are taken at the actual rescue site immediately upon capture... posing for a moment for a picture.

We do not condone having wildlife - of any sort - as pets. This includes raccoons as pets, squirrels as pets, coatamundi as pets, and skunks as pets. We do not approve of wild bred snakes or other wild bred animals as pets. True educational use of wild bred is honorable. Captive bred animals are understandable. We believe that time has proven that wildlife will all eventually come to despise captivity. Once an animal with a human imprint is released into the wild - it will not posess the mandatory skills needed to survive. Imprinted wildlife will typically die a slow, inhumane, starved out, beat-up, pushed out, miserable death.

Imagine a pet raccoon being released after years of captivity. It is then introduced into a strange ecosystem in a strange environment without a home or food source. The raccoon gets run off by others in that territory. It wanders for days on end. It was not rehabilitated - it has a human imprint on it - it does not know how to survive in the wild. It spots a house - then it jumps up onto the lap of a 99 year old woman on her front porch - that raccoon just wants a friend and meal - that woman is going to die of a heart attack.

We believe that exclusion is a much more humane than trapping and relocating wildlife. At best, it is a temporary solution for nuisance wildlife control if repairs to the property are not made. We can condone and will do trapping on rare occasions in order to reunite mothers with their young, and in certain strange circumstances.

Please note that live traps can and will kill wildlife easily.

Please note that many animals will have heart attacks because of the stress involved with live trapping.

Please note the pictures of animals captured in "humane" live traps. Also note that the skulls of these animals are showing because of the associated struggle for their lives.

Research has shown that wildlife that is relocated does not have a very good chance of survival. Example: We take YOU and drop you in a bad part of a large city. You have no food, no water, no clothing, no money, no phone, no friends, no family, no map. You are in somebody else's territory. You end up begging for food and shelter. You are pushed out by other homeless. What is your chance of survival?

Relocation of certain species is understandable under certain circumstances. Resident Canadian geese, bats, and birds have a much better chance of survival.