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🦇 PSA: If you have nuisance bats in your home or other building, we advise you call an expert before 10/15 when the fall bat exclusion restriction period begins. This period protects all hibernating bats, and it runs through April 1, 2026.
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😍 Eastern chipmunks usually inhabit deciduous forests and brushy areas. They live in shallow burrows in the ground that they dig by carrying away dirt in their cheek pouches. They often conceal the several different entrances and exits with leaves and rocks.

🐛 Eastern chipmunks are omnivorous and typically eat seeds, fruits, meat, eggs, insects and bulbs.
📷 Jerilyn Garrett (Brown County)

🦇 PSA: If you have nuisance bats in your home or other building, we advise you call an expert before 10/15 when the fall bat exclusion restriction period begins. This period protects hibernating bats, and it runs through April 1, 2025
🔗 Learn more: https://ow.ly/S83S50TfGWE

See one of these lying around? Don't touch!✋🏽
It's an oral rabies vaccine, meant to protect wildlife and communities from rabies. They're harmless to people and pets, but if you find one near your home, follow these steps to properly relocate it:
⚠Wear gloves or use a paper towel to pick it up.
⚠Toss intact baits into a fence row, woodlot, ditch, or other raccoon habitat area.
⚠Wash your hands with soap and water after any skin contact.
Learn more at: odh.ohio.gov/orv

Watch your pets! Coyotes more active this time of year It’s almost coyote mating season, meaning you might see more coyotes out and about throughout Ohio in the coming months.

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It's beginning to smell a lot like spring in parts of the striped skunk's range. Be on the lookout and keep an eye on your canine friends to avoid unpleasant encounters!

📷 courtesy of Dan Dzurisin/CC BY 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/7VVaoZ

ICYMI: 🎃 Please do not leave plastic pumpkins outside! Be sure to bring them in after trick or treating and avoid using them in your holiday decorations. At the very least, remove the plastic strap to prevent the bucket from getting stuck on the deer’s head.

Keep an eye on your pets

Love stinks! It's breeding season for skunks. Male skunks will p**f to find a female in the area. If she is interested, she will return the p**f. So if it is a little smelly in your neighborhood, it's because our striped skunks are trying to find their Valentine.
Photo credit: Chris Brinkman