New in the PCT Store: Wildlife Management Books from Expert Stephen Vantassel

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Now available in the PCT store are a pair of books from renowned wildlife pest management expert Stephen M. Vantassel — Being Kind to Animal Pests, revised edition and The Wildlife Removal Handbook, 3rd edition.

Being Kind to Animal Pests, revised edition, released earlier this year, is Vantassel’s update of Steve Meyer’s classic resource, Being Kind to Animal Pests. The newly revised version provides users of cage and box traps specific principles and tips to improve the humaneness of these devices. Highlights include:

• Advice from published literature as well as the personal on-the-job experience of professional wildlife control operators.  
• A discussion of equipment, baiting, setting, and use of cage and box traps.
• Specific advice for handling the most common nuisance animal species in the United States.
• A review of how to trap animals in the least injurious way practical.

The Wildlife Removal Handbook 3rd edition is for those new to managing wildlife problems, and for PCOs who have recently added this service offering. This edition has been updated to account for advances in wildlife control equipment and practices. In addition, the publication has new images as well as a new chapter not found in previous editions. Chapters highlights include:

• Getting started
• Inspecting structures
• Business issues
• Safety
• Effective use of cage and box traps

The book reviews techniques for the control of squirrels, raccoons, woodchucks, chipmunks, and skunks. Details on how to remove skunk odor like a professional are also included.

Vantassel, the vertebrate pest specialist for the Montana Department of Agriculture, is a certified wildlife control professional and academy certified professional. For about five years, he ran his wildlife damage control company in Springfield, Mass. From 2004 to 2014, he was the program coordinator of wildlife damage program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has twice been awarded Educator of the Year by the National Wildlife Control Operators Association.

Both Being Kind to Animal Pests, revised edition and The Wildlife Removal Handbook, 3rd edition can be ordered at http://store.pctonline.com/en/.