Gophers vs. Moles
You may have recently noticed holes appearing throughout your backyard or near your workplace and wondered whether a gopher or mole is causing the damage.
While it can be challenging to tell if you have moles or gophers at first, there are a few telltale ways to distinguish them based on their appearance, diet and behavior, as well as the mounds they make and the damage they create.
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Difference Between Gophers and Moles in Appearance
Moles are about 6 to 8 inches long and belong to the shrew family. These mammals have long claws, paddle-like forefeet, pointed snouts and cylindrical bodies. Moles have tiny eyes and soft fur that varies in color from gray to brown. Their fur texture helps them back up through a tunnel without soil becoming trapped in their coats.
Gophers, also known as pocket gophers, are a bit bigger than moles — they average about 12 inches — and have fur-lined pouches external to their...
How To Prevent Raccoons: 5 Ways To Keep Raccoons Away From Your House
Have you been seeing more raccoons around your neighborhood lately? You're not alone. Raccoons are no longer confined to their natural habitats of forests and wetlands. Recent decades have seen a great raccoon migration to urban and suburban areas. City streets and local neighborhoods offer these small scavengers a bounty of food sources.
Keep your property from becoming a haven for these masked bandits. In this post, we'll teach you how to keep raccoons away. These five tips for preventing raccoons rely on making them feel unwelcome and using natural deterrents to ensure your home is inhospitable to these intelligent mammals.
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1. Remove Raccoon Food Sources
Like with any wild animal, providing a regular source of food for raccoons encourages dependence on humans and can lead to overpopulation. These critters are smart and resourceful. They're also master scavengers. Enhanced night vision allows them to easily feed at night.
If you're feeding the raccoons, stop. You should also locate potential food sources and remove them to keep raccoons at...
What Diseases Do Rodents Carry?
As a homeowner, you care about the state and cleanliness of your home. The safety of you and your household is paramount — which is why you should protect yourself and others from rodents like mice and rats. These rodents can bring diseases into your living space. Educating yourself on the various dangers and using that information to take preventative measures is one of the easiest ways to improve your home's safety and sanitation.
Which Kinds of Rodents Spread Disease?
Mice and rats are the most common rodent disease spreaders. Wild rodents can create innovative ways to get into your home by finding hidden spots to nest and cultivating areas for disease to grow and migrate to other parts of your house.
Pets such as hamsters, gerbils, and guinea pigs also have the potential to spread disease. Have your pets routinely guarded and examined by a vet to prevent the spread of common diseases.
What Are Common Diseases Caused By Pests and Rodents?
Rodents can carry a...
How Do You Know if a Wild Animal Has Rabies
Rabies is a serious disease that, if left untreated, can prove fatal for any mammal that has it. To help prevent you and your loved ones from contracting this fatal disease, you should be able to tell when a wild animal has rabies.
What Is Rabies and How Can It Affect Animals (And You, if Bitten)?
Knowing what rabies is and how wild animals get this disease is the first step to countering it. Rabies is a viral disease that affects the nervous system in mammals. It is most often transmitted by animals a few days before they die when their saliva comes into contact with another mammal's scratches, open wounds, or mucous membranes. Normally this is the final stage of rabies.
Saliva is the only way for the disease to travel from one mammal to another since the virus can’t survive in the open air.
When a human contracts rabies, they first experience an incubation period that can range from a couple of...
How to Get Squirrels Out of the Attic
Dealing with squirrels in your attic? Whether you've been hearing them scurrying and scratching around or have seen some teeth marks and droppings, you want to take action as soon as possible.
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Potential Ways to Get Rid of Squirrels in Your Attic
If you are dealing with squirrels in your attic, you can try several methods to try and get them out. Here are a few of the best ways:
Make your home and yard unwelcoming: Many things can attract squirrels to your yard. Everything from overgrown brush to bird feeders can make your yard habitable to squirrels. Trim up hedges, remove branches and debris, and minimize food sources so that squirrels will be less likely to find your home attractive.
Use an unappealing scent: Squirrels find several scents repulsive. If you use an unappealing scent like apple cider vinegar or peppermint in your attic, you can potentially deter them from taking up residence.
Seal entry points: If there...
What to Do if You Get Bitten by a Copperhead Snake
A Sapulpa woman was recently faced with a copperhead snake, shining the spotlight on snake safety in the area. Urban Jungle Wildlife Removal was proud to help educate news listeners about the dangers of venomous snakes, and we want to continue to support our community by spreading the message about snake safety.
Common venomous snakes in Texas include rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, and copperheads. Copperheads are the most common snakes to cause bites. These snakes are about 2 to 3 feet long and are pit vipers, meaning they strike by detecting the heat produced by their prey.
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Can You Survive a Bite from a Copperhead Snake Without Treatment?
Copperheads are venomous, but their venom is relatively mild compared to other venomous snakes. Bites are not usually life-threatening, but if bitten you should always seek medical attention. These snakes produce hemotoxic venom, which affects the immediate area around the bite and causes painful but usually temporary tissue damage.
You will still want to...