Have you ever had raccoons fall through your ceiling? Discovered
a nest of sparrows in your hanging flower basket? Or how about
woke up one morning to discover deer have nibbled on your flower
garden, reducing your blossoms to stems? If so, you're not alone.
	
    The paths of humans and wildlife cross all the time, and it is the
aim of this handbook to make sure those paths cross as peacefully
as possible. Andrea Dawn Lopez, a former manager at Wildlife
Rescue and Rehabilitation, Inc., in San Antonio, Texas, has
distilled her knowledge of dealing with wildlife in When Raccoons
Fall through Your Ceiling. She tackles a wide variety of situations
that occur when human and non-human worlds clash.

    Have you found a baby bird on your porch? Is a snake taking up
residence in your garage? Or perhaps woodpeckers are drumming
against your house? Lopez offers advice on how to deal humanely
with each situation with tips on relocation, repelling, and when to
call in the experts (for when the bears are rattling your trash cans).

    Wildlife rehabilitators and state wildlife officers across the
world spend many hours answering questions on the phone,
teaching in classrooms, and going to people's homes to try and
show them how to better co-habit with wild animals. When
Raccoons Fall through Your Ceiling is a practical handbook to
codify for the general public how to deal with wildlife-related
problems and concerns. It will be of interest to wildlife
rehabilitation centers, state wildlife agencies, veterinarians, and
those fortunate enough to live in an area enhanced by wild birds,
reptiles, and mammals.

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ANDREA DAWN LOPEZ is a freelance writer and broadcast
journalist with KOAA-TV (NBC) in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
She completed her graduate studies in journalism at Concordia
University in Montreal, where she specialized in print journalism.
Her articles have appeared in the Wild Outdoor World, the San
Antonio Express-News, Bird Watcher's Digest, and Backhome
Magazine, among others. Lynn Marie Cuny, who wrote the
foreword, is author of Through Animals' Eyes: True Stories from a
Wildlife Sanctuary, also published by the University of North
Texas Press.



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What people are saying about this book

"With the increasing encroachment on wildlife habitat throughout
the country, the information in this book is badly needed. It could
significantly help newcomers moving into wildlife habitat and the
wildlife itself."—Geoff Tischbein, retired information specialist
from the Colorado Division of Wildlife