What’s the most you’ve pulled out of one back yard? I have a customer that sofar I have pulled 14 skunks and 3 possums out of his back yard in the middle of town. I’m still seeing a possum and at least two more skunks on camera. Starting to think I’m trapping everything in town. Got the call after his dog got sprayed and figured it was just a family living under his shed. Imagine my surprise when I kept filling the 4 traps I had in his yard.

Sixteen raccoons and two opossums. Which is strange for Atlanta with low and localized coon numbers, average is two to three. Even stranger these were flipping sod which is my only sod flippers to date.
That was last year.

They had another bit of flipped sod a couple weeks ago I'm pulling traps on that same site this week with zero catches and no new damage. Go figure.

61 squirrels, 4 raccoon and 1 skunk.

Over what time frame? I've caught 46 woodchucks over 8 years so far. Around 11 possums, 11-12 skunks and 3 raccoons. On my small 1/4 acre property.

In about 3 weeks time. They where having problems with squirrels chewing up the wires on some of their farm equipment. Seen signs of raccoon so put out a few sets for them.

Got a loaner program going for an older veteran. He hit armadillo #22 since May today.

One February a few years ago we locked onto a “no tell motel” under a guy’s front porch. I pulled 19 skunks out. I know there were more caught.

I remember telling a lady (whom you could tell had seen a few things in life) about her attic raccoon no tell motel. She got a far away look in her eyes… you could tell she had fond memories of such motels, lol.

19 groundhogs 4 opossums 3 skunks 3 coon and the next year 15 groundhog several coon skunk and possum..this year only 5 groundhog 3skunk and a coon. All from the same yard.Might say though there is a small stream that runs through the property and that makes it a travel corridor

So far this year I nuisance trapped 3 raccoon, 4 groundhogs, one possum and 2 chipmunks. Working on trapping a skunk at the moment. It's got a LOT of white on it's back.

10 days of trapping for my situation. I’m waiting for the customer to decide if they want to keep at it. Their dog got sprayed which started the situation.

9 coons and one fox.

18 squirrels in my backyard in two weeks.

My own back yard got 12 coon 10 possums 2 mink a skunk 2 red fox an a fisher

East side or west? That is an amazing tally for WA. Over one summer I took 60some possums out of my own backyard in Puyallup. They were running the fence. No bait just a single cage on the top rail.

I took 15 coons and one skunk out of one backyard in August of this year.

LT Grey is one of the reasons that this site goes for days without so much as a whisper. Some of us are paid to control the overpopulation when nothing else is legal. Goodbye!

The circumstances that most of us deal with is this. Wildlife has well adapted to human expansion into their habitat and as a result has flourished. There is more food, shelter and less work involved for many of those living in the wild. It is an ongoing daily routine for truly wild animals to make a living in some habitat areas.

But they make it work or we wouldn't have the populations that we do today in so-called suburbia and cities to a great degree. There wouldn't be a demand for our services if things were different.

A growing percentage of our population doesn't want bothered, don't have the knowledge or would gladly pay someone to handle their problem. They like it that way from what I have seen, or they wouldn't be keeping so many of us in business. The more pacified and removed from nature that these folks become the more dependent they become on our services.

At least the well employed/educated folks that have the ways and means to pay for such work.

Wildlife that has had a taste of the good life become habituated to this multi rich environment. When reproduction does take place within the confines of this "easy life" environment, they just have to make their rounds each night through the neighborhoods.

Most just reaping the benefits of the many opportunities that man has provided them. Then it becomes a generational lifestyle to these animals as the generations evolve.

Bird feeders, lawn care, sprinkler systems, hot tubs, pools, dog / cat food and water bowls, Koi ponds, keeping the garage doors at half-mast for the cats. Decks, sheds, gazebos etc. that is a list of just a few situations that come to mind. These situations are calling cards of opportunity for many species of wildlife.

What is that quote from a movie. "Build it, they will come." It isn't a difficult scenario to figure out.

As to being crooks, I don't view my business model or my pricing structure as such or falling into that category that you have described.

I charge what I deem as a fair price for my time, type of work, equipment, risk factor and knowledge needed to get the job done. A client always has the option to shop around as we all know many do this.

I don't prey on anyone's weaknesses or fears, and I am sure I am not alone in how I do things.

I explain to the potential client, to the best of my abilities, as to what they can expect in results and costs prior to any services being rendered. They can decide to move ahead or decline services based on the information I have provided.

I do not take advantage of anyone. In many cases we are all doing population control of sorts. That is what we do. At times you don't know specifically if you got the offender. Only time will tell us the answer to getting the problem animals. In some circumstances the problem may be a single animal. Other cases it may be an on and off or an ongoing scenario.

16 skunks, I was amazed that there were that many.

During the breeding season a hot female skunk can bring the gents in from miles away. A buddy caught a bunch of high dollar skunks from under an old gals house. He was surprised also.