Enviro-Mike Wildlife Rescue

Bats (http://www.batcon.org/)

This site contains info on how to safely remove a bat from your house or how to humanely remove a colony of bats from your attic or chimney. Click on "Got a Bat in Your House?" under the "Most Requested" heading. Note that there are certain times of the year when it is NOT safe to remove a colony!

To learn the facts about rabies and bats (including a challenge to the idea that a bat bite would be undetected by a sleeping person), click on "Rabies Info" under the "Most Requested" heading.

Deer (Coexisting With Wildlife Fact Sheet - Deer)

This PDF is by far the most thorough review of humane ways to deal with urban deer/human conflicts (12 pages!) including:

A list of deer resistant AND preferred plants, shrubs, and trees (3 pages on its own!)
Repellents
Scare devices
Fencing
Ways to reduce or prevent deer/vehicle collisions
Misconceptions about Lyme disease
Reasons why hunting is not an effective wildlife management technique

Raccoons (Coexisting With Wildlife Fact Sheet - Raccoons)

This PDF contains excellent suggestions on how to humanely resolve conflicts with raccoons as well as answers to frequently asked questions about raccoons around people's houses.

Remember that raccoons do not make good pets no matter how cute and friendly they may appear when they are young. (Besides, it is illegal without proper permission from your State government!) You should always call a local wildlife rehabilitator if you suspect you have found an orphaned or injured raccoon. (You may be wrong on both counts!)

If in calling around, you find that your local wildlife rehabilitator does not handle or accept raccoons, AND AS A LAST RESORT ONLY, this PDF contains practical suggestions to care for them until they are old or well enough to re-release to the wild.

WARNING! HEALTH RISK! A high percentage (70 � 85 % in the U.S. Midwest) of raccoons carry roundworm (a highly contagious and potentially lethal disease to humans) and other potentially dangerous diseases for humans and companion animals (rabies, distemper, leptospirosis, etc.). It is strongly recommended that you talk to a wildlife rehabilitator BEFORE you decide to care for a raccoon!