Animal Control

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, ...

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...

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.

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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...

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 ...

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, ...

Some houses don't want visitors. This one has been waiting forty years for them. Pepper Alderson handles the pests other witches won't touch. But when long-dead Grimsby Manor starts lighting its own windows at night, and a ghost-hunting TV crew rolls into Mossy Creek to film it, the county calls the one woman who can tell a real haunting from a rigged one. Then the crew's researcher dies in the locked ballroom, alone, with no footprints in the dust but her own, and everyone agrees the house did it. Pepper doesn't. Something in that manor is furious, and grieving, and forty years old, but it...

There is no world beyond the mist. No life beyond the canopy. So the history books say anyway. Restless pichu monkey, Claude Talador, is stuck in his jungle office cubicle with dry colleagues, constant rain, and a life of frustrating routine. When he’s offered a chance to help with secret state inspections, it feels like a lifeline. An opportunity. A chance to escape. Instead, it draws him to the eye of the Toucan and a hidden world with one forbidden dream... A dream that might put his career (and life) in great danger. The Monkey State is a story for anyone who feels trapped by their ...

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...

Deckawoo Drive’s intrepid Animal Control Officer meets her match—or does she? A funny, heartfelt, and fast-paced romp from the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Francine Poulet is the greatest Animal Control Officer in Gizzford County. She hails from a long line of Animal...

Some pests are harder to exterminate than others. Pepper Alderson is not your typical witch. No crystal balls. No fortune telling. No fancy spells for the elite. She runs Critter Control for the magical set. Pixies in your air ducts? Goblins clogging your garbage disposal? Gnomes destroying your garden? She's the one you call. But when a routine gnome removal job unearths a body buried beneath prize-winning petunias, Pepper finds herself tangled in something far more sinister than supernatural vermin. Now, with the help of her surprisingly cowardly tarantula familiar, Webs, she must dig up ...

Some deaths refuse to stay quiet. Pepper Alderson is not your typical witch. She runs critter control for the magical set, pixies in the air ducts, goblins in the disposal, gnomes in the garden. But ever since she solved a murder with the help of a cowardly tarantula, a stranger kind of call has started coming in. When a grieving widow hires her to settle the ghost rattling the clocks in her kitchen, Pepper expects a draft and a guilty conscience. What she finds is a murdered man who will not rest until someone proves he did not simply fall down his own back steps. With her spectacularly ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The World Without Mosquitoes explores the shocking science behind mosquito extinction, genetic engineering, and ecosystem balance. Discover how eliminating disease-carrying species could impact global health, biodiversity, and the environment. This powerful and thought-provoking book dives into malaria, dengue, CRISPR gene editing, ecological consequences, and the future of mosquito control. Perfect for readers interested in science, nature, environmental studies, public health, and fascinating real-world “what if” scenarios.

2026-2035 in America: An Autocratic Fable A sharp, unsettling political satire about a future America that finally becomes calm, stable and perfectly aligned. What if the future arrived not with a bang, but with a memo? What if an election went sideways, and it didn’t seem to matter much? Nothing ever really changes… right? Ten years after the launch of The National Greatness Initiative, America has finally achieved what generations claimed to want: clarity, unity, stability, and a political system that simply… works. News arrives fully interpreted. Elections conclude efficiently. ...

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 ...

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 ...