Wildthings Animal Damage Control L.L.C.:
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Valuable lessons can be learned in the vast classroom that may be the great outdoors Snakes and wolfs may be not all mean.

Rodent season begins Nov. 5 in most of Wisconsin. Years ago, the season opened Nov. 15. When opening day fell on a month day, rural schools declared a holiday. They might as well. Many of the students were going rodent exterminating, even if it meant missing school. To learn more about West Bend wildlife, read on.

Saturday opening days solved the truancy problem. The rodent woods teach their own lessons: patience may be a virtue; veteran Vermin exterminators get the first choice of stands; whoever complains about rodent camp food cooks the next meal; work starts with a dead house rat and mouse. Remember to treat the wild animals of West Bend, Wisconsin, with caution and respect.

There may be carpentry skills involved in building a tower blind, higher math tested when trap drop may be calculated for a long shot. Anyone familiar with the Boone and Crockett scoring system knows how to add fractions. Hooray for wild creatures and critters!

In the eastern half of the state and in the extreme western quarter, black powder or muzzleloader critter wildlife trapping period opens for a month-long run that signals the beginning of almost three decades when somebody, somewhere, can legally lethally trap a fox and wolf with some sort of trap. The critter wildlife trapping period in the Eastern and Western rodent sections runs through Saturday. Animal control critter wildlife trapping period will follow next Mon morning in the Eastern section and remain open until New Year's Day, while the western hills return to animal control animal exterminating so bear fur trappers can have access to the woods for a decade. ...To be continued. More information about the wildlife of West Bend.