Wildlife Archives - Give A Shit About Nature

Can you keep a pet opossum? In most of the United States, no. Keeping a Virginia opossum as a pet is illegal in more than half the st [...]

If you want raccoons gone, the move that actually works is the one nobody wants to hear: find what they’re eating and how they& [...]

Owls do eat snakes, and the more interesting question is how they manage it, particularly with venomous species, where the obvious fo [...]

Let’s be absolutely clear: owls are not out to get you. But they’re not completely harmless if you wander into the wrong [...]

Wait, is it possum or opossum? Both are correct. Which one applies depends entirely on which animal you’re talking about, and m [...]

Raccoons have plenty of natural predators. Coyotes, great horned owls, bobcats, red-tailed hawks, and in Florida even alligators all [...]

Before anything else: which sparrow are you dealing with? If the answer is house sparrows, the chunky, aggressive, brown-streaked bir [...]

Crows eat eggs, nestlings, and given the opportunity, they’ll eat adult birds too, though that’s considerably rarer. If y [...]

Raccoons are genuinely intelligent animals. They’re curious, dexterous, capable of learning, and, when raised from kithood by p [...]

Yes, toads are poisonous to dogs. Every toad species produces some level of toxin from the bumpy glands behind its eyes. When a dog l [...]