Joseph Henney, 69, grew up on a farm in the same area of Dover, Pennsylvania he lives in now. From a young age, Henney was surrounded by a wide range of animals, such as cattle, coyotes, snakes and hogs, which makes owning a pet alligator perhaps the least surprising thing about him. But Henney’s gator […]
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USDA Dropping Fish-Flavored Vaccines From the Sky to Stop Spread of Rabies in Raccoons
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun its annual oral rabies vaccination distribution project to help prevent the spread of rabies in raccoons. However, this year they’re doing things a little differently. The project will focus on the spread of rabies in raccoons in the eastern United States, according to the USDA. This year, the […]
Homeowner Uses Security Camera To Talk To Deer In Her Yard
A homeowner in Pennsylvania surprised a deer when she began speaking to it on her Ring doorbell camera. The woman was away from her home in Indiana, Pennsylvania when she got a motion alert on her Ring doorbell camera that something was moving in her yard. According to Inside Edition, the woman feared that a […]
Police shoot 15-foot snake wrapped around owner’s neck
Police in rural Pennsylvania were called to a nightmare scene on Wednesday afternoon, finding a man unresponsive with his 15-foot pet snake wrapped around his body. “It’s one of those situations where the officers don’t have the time, the liberty to ask a lot of questions,” Upper Macungie Township Police lieutenant Peter Nickischer told The […]
Chance to shoot bison at Grand Canyon draws 45,000 applicants
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — More than 45,000 people are vying for one of a dozen spots to help thin a herd of bison at Grand Canyon National Park. The odds aren’t as good as drawing a state tag to hunt the massive animals beyond the boundaries of the Grand Canyon, but they’re far better than getting […]
It’s coyote-killing season in Pennsylvania. Are the hunts barbaric or necessary population control?
A dead Eastern coyote hung upside down above a bucket of dried blood in a rural Pennsylvania fire hall, its lips locked in a perpetual snarl. Some men crouched beside it, while other adults twirled spaghetti with a fork, looking on from aluminum chairs. Children held canned sodas and stared. “Thirty-eight pounds even,” the men […]
Petition: Pass “Bird-Friendly” Glass Building Ordinances
Many of us have had that experience of hearing a loud thump and then looking outside to see a bird that had crashed into a window and is now laying on the ground. However, many people still believe that these are uncommon experiences. Unfortunately, bird-window collisions account for a huge number of bird deaths every […]
POLL: Should bear hunting be banned?
Hunters killed 909 bears during Pennsylvania’s first weekend-long opener to the firearms hunting season for bear – 748 on Saturday and 161 on Sunday – bringing the total 2020 black bear harvest to 2,887 as of the end of hunting at sunset on Sunday. For the first time since bear hunting seasons were instituted in […]