Living the Wild Life Podcast Show List

For a list of interviews click Interviews

Links to the shows will be added as time permits. For access to all the shows, visit Pest Geek Podcast 

2018 Living the Wild Life Shows

1-22-18 Differences in Rodent Baits and Rodenticides
9-19-18 Carcass Disposal
10-3-2018 Challenges within the Wildlife Control Industry
11-7-18 Humane Defined 
11-15-18 Wildlife Photography

11-29-18 Euthanasia and Humane Dispatch
12-2-18 Scat ID Basics
12-8-18 Three Trap Set Types for Full Trap Utilization
12-22-2018 Understanding Baits, Lures, and Attractants
12-31-2018 Wildlife Expo: Myrtle Beach

2019 Living the Wild Life Shows

1-10-19 safer use of conibears
1-19-19 Difficult ID Jobs
2-1-19 How to Properly Price Your Wildlife Control Services
2-13-19 Signs of Sick and Dangerous Animals
2-8-19 Capabilities & Reproduction of house mice
2-20-19 Explaining Risk to Your Clients
3-4-2019 Using USDA Technical Bulletins to Educate Your Employees and Customers
3-12-19 Nuisance Wildlife Control Laws & Protected Species
3-25-19 Deer Mice, White-footed Mice
4-17-19 Certified Training Available through NWCOA
4-25-19 Bat Rabies and Rabies Infection
5-2-19 Raccoon Roundworm
5-14-19 Choosing Rodenticides Wisely
6-3-19 A Note-taking System When Attending Training Courses
6-15-19 Handling Canada Geese
6-29-19 Using Strychnine for Control of Pocket Gophers
8-5-19 Eastern Moles
9-3-19 Using Trail Cameras to Identify Wildlife Damage
10-1-19 Carbon Monoxide Devices in Wildlife Control
10-18-19 Creating Your Own Wildlife Calendar
10-19-19 information Resources on wdm
10-26-19 Plague, Yersinia pestis

Why licensing matters (explain why opposition to licensing standards hurts your industry)
11-2-19 What rules should states require theory
11-15-19 Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel Biology
11-22-19 Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel Control
11-29-19 Biology of Gray Squirrels
12-7-19 Robo Call Killer App
5 Tips To Get The Most our of training Conferences (blog) 12-23-19
12-17-19 Dealing with the Media
12-23-2019 Control of Tree Squirrels
12-31-2019 Making the Most of Your Pest Inspection

2020 Living the Wild Life Shows

1-11-20 Handling Difficult Clients
1-18-20 Scalability of Your Business
1-30-20 Using Drones in Wildlife Control: Licensing and Certification for the Commercial Drone Pilot Exam
2-5-20 Being an Expert Witness for Wildlife Control Cases
2-14-20 Pigeon Droppings and Limestone
2-22-20 Trapping Armadillos
3-6-20 Professional Pest Control Wildlife Associations: Criticisms and Points of View
3-21-20 Transient Skunk Damage: When Skunks Come onto Your Property
3-25-20 Domiciled Skunk Damage: When Skunks Move In and Live With You
4-4-20 Skunk Spray Odor Control: How to Get Rid of Skunk Smell in House
4-12-20 Trap Molestation: When Someone Tampers with Your Wildlife Traps & Pest Control Stations
4-25-20 Pest Control Technicians Doing Wildlife Control: What You Need to Know
5-3-20 From Tinkerer to Inventors How We are Getting New Inventions in Wildlife Control
5-24-20 Use of Moth Balls: Dealing with the Myths and Misinformation
5-31-20 6 Stupid Mistakes Wildlife Control Professional Make
6-9-20 Categorizing Control Methods
8-25-20 Opossum Life History and Biology
7-3-20 Repellents in Wildlife Control
8-7-20 How to Hire an Animal Trapper or Wildlife Control Company
8-25-20 Opossum Diseases
9-14-20 I Can’t Wear a Respirator
9-30-20 Preparing for Down Time
10-15-20 Best Raccoon Baits for Trapping Raccoons
10-28-20 Watch your Language: Using Professional Language
11-6-20 Understanding Experimental Journal Articles
11-15-20 Preventing Hantavirus Zoonotic Respiratory Infection
11-21-20 Understanding LD50 
11-28-20 Dealing with Criticism
12-9-20 Using Deer Repellents in Suburban Areas
12-19-20 Are Opossums the Solution to Controlling Ticks? 

 

Living the Wild Life 2021 Shows

1-3-21 Mistakes Technicians Make When Dealing with Rodents
1-10-21 Do’s and Don’ts When Starting Your Own Pest Control Company 
1-23-21 Do You have Good Data on the Effectiveness of Your Bait?
1-30-21 AVMA American Veterinary Medical Association’s 2020 Guidelines on the Euthanasia of Animals
2-22-21 Pocket Tripod Pro
3-26-21 Animal Rights, Wildlife Control & the Ugly Business of Politics 
4-2-21 Do Red Foxes Kill Cats?
4-6-21 How to Read Scientific Journals
4-10-21 Label is the Law versus Vole Pesticide Labels
4-16-21 Tips for not lying to clients
4-23-21 Plan Your Retirement
5-1-21 Contracts
5-8-21 Pesticide Label is NOT the Whole Law
5-22-21 Handling Beaver Flooding with Beaver Pipes
5-26-21 iWatermark for Watermarking Your Photos
5-15-21 Chipmunks and Job Pricing
5-29-21 gopher buddy and DK-1
6-5-21 XCLUDER Garage Door Seal
6-19-21 Firearm Laws for the WCO
6-26-21 Snake Repellent Barriers
7-2-21 Being a Guest on Living the Wild Life Show
7-10-21 Frye Rodent Inspection Tool
7-23-21 Painting Cage Traps
7-30-21 Need for Biologists to Research in Urban Wildlife Control

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Best Practices for Using Restricted Use Fumigants to Control Burrowing Rodents
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