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How to handle raccoons, snakes and other critters in your yard (hint: not with a thermos)

  • Written by Leslie Burger, Assistant Extension Professor of Wildlife, Fisheries & Aquaculture, Mississippi State University
Oh-so-cute raccoons can carry diseases and also fight with pets. If you don't want raccoons around, minimize food sources such as bird seed.Nancy Salmon/Shutterstock.com

I heard a local story of a man who, in his excitement to kill a rattlesnake, used the only thing he had available ─ his thermos bottle. The next scene in this drama has the...

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