Animal Control

Conquer the Animal Control Officer Exam: Your Concise Guide to Managing Animal Safety is a focused resource designed to prepare candidates for a successful career in animal control. This guide provides a comprehensive yet concise overview of essential topics, including animal welfare laws, humane animal handling, and public safety measures. It emphasizes the foundational knowledge needed to navigate challenges such as stray animal capture, wildlife management, and animal cruelty investigations. The guide covers a wide range of relevant topics, from using catchpoles and microchip scanners to...

Pass the Animal Control Officer Exam: Your Guide to a Career in Animal Control is an audiobook—also available as an eBook—designed to provide a clear, concise overview of the essential topics relevant to the work of animal control professionals. This guide offers a practical introduction to the core duties, skills, and challenges faced by animal control officers. It reviews fundamental areas such as animal behavior, handling and restraint techniques, breed and species recognition, and awareness of zoonotic diseases. Listeners and readers will also learn the importance of public safety, ...

Some dogs are afraid, or excited, or reactive. Dogs that "don't listen" and "go crazy" don't live the lives we - or they - want. Fired Up, Frantic, and Freaked Out can change that. Simple steps and an accessible, conversational tone from award-winning, internationally-known trainer Laura VanArendonk Baugh CPDT-KA KPACTP make calming the agitated dog not only possible, but pleasant. In this book you'll learn how to achieve change in short, simple training sessions of a minute or less; maximize the effects of natural brain chemistry; know when to call in medical help; and more.

Roxy the Rhino doesn't mean to interrupt or cut in line or take things without asking. Sometimes her excitement just takes over. Roxy has a problem with impulse control. Thankfully Roxy meets a new friend who teaches her to stop, think, and wink.

The rock and roll dreams of the creatively gifted yet combative Mason brothers may come true...if they don’t kill each other first. The extraordinarily talented but perpetually vexed and antisocial Charles and his younger brother, the gregarious but self-involved Ian, are born into a supportive, encouraging family that includes a generous, nurturing uncle who owns a musical instrument store. After a series of life-altering incidents, Charles’ already explosive temperament worsens and it’s up to Ian to navigate the pitfalls of the music industry as well as the highly competitive and ...

The Wildlife Removal Handbook, 3rd. ed. explains how to get started in the wildlife control industry. This edition contains updated chapters as well as new chapters. Chapters cover topics such as getting started, inspecting structures, business issues, safety, effective use of cage and box traps, animal dispatch and carcass disposal, and how to control skunks, (including deodorizing), raccoons in structures and chimneys, gray squirrels, chipmunks, feral cats, and more. The author, Stephen M. Vantassel is an industry leader who has been awarded Educator of the Year (twice) by the National ...

Tracing the path to power for over thirty different species on six continents, writer and behavioral ecologist Lee Alan Dugatkin takes us on a journey around the globe, shepherded by leading researchers who have discovered that in everything from hyenas to dolphins, bonobos to field mice, cichlid fish to cuttlefish, copperhead snakes to ravens, and meerkats to mongooses, power revolves around spying, deception, manipulation, forming and breaking up alliances, complex assessments of potential opponents, building social networks, and more

Throughout his years with the LAPD, Peter Decker has handled a number of tough cases and strange killers. But few of his previous assignments compare to his latest case. When Hobart Penny is found dead in his apartment, the cops think that his pet cat—an adult female tiger—attacked the...

Stephen M. Vantassel, is a Certified Wildlife Control Professional™ (CWCP) who has been a leader in the field of wildlife control since the 1980s. He founded Wildlife Removal Service, Inc. (Springfield, MA) in 1992 and serviced the wildlife control needs of the Pioneer Valley region till 1997 when he sold the company. Stephen has written scores of articles which have appeared in publications such as Wildlife Control Technology, The Trapper & Predator Caller, Pest Management Professional, University of Nebraska-Lincoln NebGuides, Mass Wildlife, and others. He has authored and co-authored ...

When the weary descendants of Animal Farm rebuild their world around the ideals of empathy and equality, they believe they are creating a new age of harmony and hope. The cruel masters of the past are gone, and in their place rise the HelpHuts — cheerful centers of fairness, run by pigs who promise kindness, inclusion, and care for all. But as the animals surrender their voices for comfort, a subtler tyranny begins to take hold — one that governs not by fear, but by virtue. Through the quiet eyes of Ollie, a small ferret with a flawless memory, the animals’ utopia is revealed as a ...

Grow healthier plants, increase yields, and harvest more—naturally. Do you want a more productive garden without relying on chemicals or complicated systems? Companion planting is one of the simplest and most effective ways to improve plant health, deter pests, and boost your harvest—using nature’s built-in partnerships. Beets. Broccoli. Bounty. is a beginner-friendly guide to companion planting gardening, designed to help you grow stronger, more resilient vegetables while avoiding the most common planting mistakes. Whether you’re gardening in raised beds, containers, or a backyard ...

A brain-bending exploration of real-life zombies and mind controllers, and what they reveal to us about nature—and ourselves Zombieism isn’t just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It’s real, and it’s happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and...

Drawing on her work at a shelter, her experiences living with two rescue dogs of her own, and years of research, bestselling author and Boston Globe columnist Amy Sutherland takes us on an unforgettable journey into the special world of rescue and shelter dogs—and the growing number of...

Think Electraweave. Think of fabrics of tomorrow! Textile scientist Eliza Bennett attends a textile conference where she plans to present her work, accompanied by her talking cat, Merlin. Their plans are disrupted by a blackout during which Eliza's presentation banner is stolen, leading them to uncover a complex plot involving corporate espionage, a mysterious surveillance network, and a dangerous rival named Croft who seeks to weaponize Eliza's technology for his own gain. Eliza's revolutionary material called Electraweave nullifies static discharge and has potential applications in space....

The Wildlife Pest Control Handbook details how to start a service industry business in resolving customer conflicts with nuisance wildlife. The business of wildlife control has low investment costs to get started and is relatively recession proof. Phil Nichols summarizes his years of wildlife control experience into simple and straightforward tips to help you start your business and handle client problems with common wildlife species successfully. Chapters include business considerations, marketing and promotion, handling skunks, raccoons, ground hogs, tree squirrels, muskrats, feral cats, ...

Bob Tarte had his first encounter with a cat when he was two and a half years old. He should have learned his lesson then, from Fluffy. But as he says, "I listened to my heart instead, and that always leads to trouble." In this tell-all of how the Tarte household grew from one recalcitrant cat to six - including a hard-to-manage stray named Frannie - Tarte confesses to allowing these interlopers to shape his and his wife's life.

“Don’t buy this book if you want to quit your job.” There is no world beyond the mist. No way to escape the forest canopy. So the pichu history books say anyway. Restless monkey, Claude, is stuck in his jungle office cubicle with dry colleagues, constant rain, and a life of dull routine. So, when he’s offered a chance to help with secret state inspections, it feels like a lifeline. An opportunity. A way out. Instead, it draws him to the 👁 of the Toucan and a hidden world with a forbidden dream... A dream that might put his career (and life) in great danger. The Monkey State is a ...

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A captivating journey through humanity’s relentless quest to harness and control physical power, fueling groundbreaking innovations while leaving a profound impact on our planet—from the acclaimed author of The Age of Wood. The Powerful Primate presents a compelling argument that flips the...

How to get shredded without exercising, even if you've tried all of the other diets out there. When you listen to this audiobook, you’ll get the following: What is the carnivore diet; what is fasting; the problem with most diets; who shouldn't try fasting; background and science of fasting and eating animal-based foods; myths and misconceptions about fasting; the countless health benefits of fasting; what is autophagy and how is it related to fasting; your first month of fasting; how to start fasting; and what to do when you mess up.