As I woke up this morning I looked at the outdoor thermometer and to my amazement it was a chilly 46 degrees. On my way to the office I wondered what was in store for us today, Would the phones ring off the hook or would it be a slow start to the cooler season?
I’ve been working in the office here at Nuisance Wildlife for about 6 weeks, (I worked at home for them previously) so I haven’t been around the “real” inner workings of an animal control or nuisance wildlife company before. It has definitely been an eye-opening experience to see what happens behind the scenes.
Now I expect to see rats, raccoons, armadillos, opossums, or other assorted critters that have been captured, so imagine my surprise when I came into the office the other day and found that we had captured a 10 ft. python who was now hanging around in a cage out back until we could determine where we could relocate him. Now, I’m not scared of snakes at all, but I can’t say the same about our office manager… let’s just say none of us knew she could jump onto a desk that quickly!!
Of course I had to take a look at it, then get a picture so I could show off my “grandma’s cool street cred” to the grandkids. The kids (and my husband) got a kick out of it, but it amazed me how many of my friends were shocked that I would even pick up that snake.
Eventually, we were able to relocate the snake (now named “Crosby”) to a wildlife refuge at Mixon Farms. A special thank you to Justin Matthews of Matthews Wildlife Rescue for making that happen. He was too gentle and beautiful of an animal to have to destroy. That’s the way we like the stories to end here at Nuisance Wildlife Removal!
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Wow it has been a super long week here at Nuisance Wildlife Relocation. The West Palm Beach branch is offically open. Whew… I would like to take a moment to thank Mark Jones for joining our family here at NWR. I have known Mark for a good number of years and we worked together when I started the www.wcoradio.com radio show. So to say the least we have some history together.
So we are putting the final touches on advertising and such for that branch. With that we also brought two more trucks into the fleet making it a total of six. I will tell you it takes some time to get all the lettering on them and and all the racks built and all the shelves in them. But for now we are done with that task.
Next stop is Greensboro N.C.
Greg Hancock will be our techinacian there so look for that office opening soon.
OK so I’m new to Florida, I admit it.
Today I had something happen that really got me laughing. While i was out drumming up new leads, I left the dogs in the back yard. It’s fenced in so I was certine they could’nt get into any trouble. (how wrong I was.) When I stoped in for lunch one of the dogs had a land crab cornered in the yard. I’m fairly certine that the dog had never seen an animal like this and he was just curious about it. Well the dog got a little to close and the crab pinched the dogs upper lip with it’s big claw. The Dog reacted about how you expect, head shake, a little wine and general suprise. After all he had never had a crab grap his lip before. This all happed pretty quikly and the crab was only attached for a few seconds before i grabed it and pryed it’s claw open. I made sure that the Dog was ok and then checked on mr. grabby crab. It was ok too. I have to admit I did chuckle a bit after the excitement was over. I think the dog leared a little lesson anout crabs and I took the crab with me back to work and released in in the dunes near the ocean. I wish I had gotten a picture but thats the kinda thing thing that just does’nt happen every day… or does it?
Woke up with the sun ready to learn how Nuisance Wildlife Relocation does things here.
The people I met were the nicest people you could ever meet. Jeff sent me out with Randy, he and I talked about interesting jobs and and the types of animals i could expect to handle here in FL. I talked to him about our flying squirrels up north.
I should mention that I’ve been doing wildlife control in the north east for over a decade and I’m tierd of the cold up there and ready for the exotic species and the new lattitude here in FL.
Randy showed me a couple of very exclusive gated comunities where he had some jobs. we checked traps and did an exclution job for rodents. We used aluminum roll flashing and screws to attach it to the house. I mentioned that the work was all very familiar to me and that I think that I’m really going to enjoy working here.
We it seems like we have a great start to the day. Our article on the python in the house was picked up by the Sarasota Herald Tribune and also the Tampa Tribune. Thanks to all the media for there support…
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080212/BREAKING02/727631363&SearchID=73308531367718
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/feb/12/python-found-rented-home/
I received a call from the local police to night about a python in a house. After a 35 minute ride I arrived on scene with fellow wildlife control professional Matthew Hunt. We entered the home and was escorted to a rear bedroom where there was a 4′ python under the hot water heater. Matthew reached under and used every ounce of energy to pull the large snake from under the tank. Once out the snake was very calm and non-aggressive. Another great job completed by the Nuisance Wildlife Relocation Team.
A lady calls today and asks Christy to come and remove the neighbors cats as they are urinating and defecating in her yard. Christy advises her to call her local county animal control agency. The lady responds what’s the number Christy told her she did not have the number for the county she resides in. The lady on the phone says well look it up for me. Christy says that she is a private company and that she will have to look it up for herself and that she is not information. The lady relpies”F%$#@N C!@T” I could not believe it. What did she think when she called at 6:00 am this morning. We were sitting in a office with our feet up waiting for her to call and then search for a number on the other side of the state? READ THE WEBSITE! it tells you where we service. OMG I could not believe this…. Well I am very proud of Christy for not calling her back and giving her a piece of her mind… Or maybe she is waiting until 3:00 am 
