Household & Multi-Pet · Wildlife
The Humane Home Protection Guide
Banning Glue Traps and Poison for Ethical Pest Control
You can keep mice out of the house without poisoning the hawk down the street. 10 modules on why glue boards are agony, how rat poison kills owls and foxes, steel-wool exclusion, why a snap trap is the humane lethal option, the relocation myth, peppermint and capsaicin, trash and compost discipline, deer fencing, the wet cleanup that protects you from hantavirus, and why rehabbers fight poisons.
About this course
Most of the poisoned hawks and glue-stuck songbirds a rehabber sees come from a homeowner who just wanted the mice gone. This course gets the mice gone without the collateral. You'll learn what a glue board actually does to the animal on it (and the bats and lizards it catches by accident), how one poisoned mouse becomes a dead owl, how to seal a house so nothing gets in (steel wool, hardware cloth, an annual walk-around), why a snap trap, placed right, is the humane choice when something has to die, why driving a mouse to the woods kills it slowly, which scents repel and which don't, how trash and compost invite the whole neighbourhood, how to keep deer off the tomatoes, how to clean up droppings without inhaling hantavirus, and why the people who patch up the victims want these products gone.
What you'll learn
- Glue traps: hours of agony and indiscriminate bycatch
- The poison chain reaction: how rodenticides kill hawks, owls and foxes
- Exclusion first: steel wool, hardware cloth, annual inspections
- Snap traps as the humane lethal option, and the relocation myth
- Scent repellents, trash and compost discipline, deer fencing
- The wet cleanup against hantavirus, and the rehabber's case against poisons
Who this is for
Anyone with mice in the garage, deer in the garden or a pest-control contract, landlords, and the neighbour who just found a dead owl.
Course outline (10 modules)
Quiz & Certificate
Knowledge quiz
After completing all lessons, take a short quiz to test your understanding.
Go to quiz →Completion certificate
Pass the quiz and earn a shareable certificate of completion.
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$9.99 · Lifetime access · 10 lessons