Stephen Vantassel here, wildlife control consultant, bringing you another episode of Living the Wild Life for All You Pest Geek Fans out there. So thanks so much for listening. Hey, today I wanted to talk a little bit about trail cameras, trail cameras, now that they’re now that the prices dropped on a lot of…
Stephen Vantassel here, wildlife control consultant, bringing you another episode of Living the Wild Life for All You Pest Geek Fans out there. So thanks so much for listening. Hey, today I wanted to talk a little bit about trail cameras, trail cameras, now that they’re now that the prices dropped on a lot of them, as well as the size of the cameras and the quality has certainly gone up and certainly undergone a technological revolution. It’s certainly something that you may want to consider when you’re doing your work with pest control, particularly in my field of wildlife control that you may want to add to your arsenal. Trail cameras can do a lot for use.
Advantages of using tail cameras in Wildlife Control
Let’s talk a little about some of the advantages that they can do. Wonder taken cameras, they can pictures for you when you can’t be there. One of the things that’s so true about dealing with wildlife or pests in general is that they’re never doing what you want them to do when you’re all prepared for them doing. Who has time to be sitting in the blind all day waiting for an animal to do certain things? So in that regard, there are some advantages with using trail cameras because they can take pictures during the day and take pictures at night in their motion activated in some of the quality of the photograph. Photos can be quite good. If you want to spend the money for that level of quality in, you have good placement where there’s good action. But even on a lower level, they can be very helpful to identify. Problems that those small number of cases where you’re just
not sure what the heck is going on with that particular site.
One of the challenges we have with wildlife control and I’m
sure with pest control to look to a lesser extent is that customers lie. I
mean, let’s be honest about it. They just lie in sometimes. You were hired by
one person, let’s say the manager of a company, and he wants Animal X removed,
but the workers underneath him or her don’t because they’re treating it like a
corporate pet. This is certainly the case when it comes to things like cats.
And so this is a dilemma that we can have where there may be free range cats or
feral cats inside of inside of a facility and the manager doesn’t want them
there. No one owns them or they brought him from home or you know how these
things are. No one really wants take responsibility, but no one wants to get
rid of them either. Manager wants them gone. Year hires your company to remove
them. You’re setting up cage traps to remove the cats and someone’s and you
just can’t seem to catch one. And you know, the baits gone or the traps close,
the trap gets moved in and no one really at no one knows who’s doing it. And so
what you can do is set up some trail cameras and find that individual or
individuals who are messin with your traps because most states have laws
against the disturbance of traps.
Now, when it comes to feral cats, as you may remember, a
podcast I did earlier about this. You may want to go back to it, but I’m just
using that as an illustration of when you have people manipulating your
travels. This could be raccoons could have the same problem with raccoons where
people are feeding the animals and aren’t wanting you to remove them. If you’re
doing with apartment area and the owner landlord wants the raccoons removed,
but the residents don’t know where some of the residences don’t. And all of a
sudden, your traps are being destroyed, they’re being moved, they’re being