Best practices for nuisance wildlife control operators in New York State

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1. Check catalogs or websites to compare different commercial models of carbon dioxide chambers. Consider buying one, or make your own.
    
2. Attend the DEC fur trapping course to learn more about trapping techniques.
    
3. If you're unfamiliar with certain humane killing techniques but would like the option of using them in your NWCO work, find an experienced wildlife professional who can teach you. Some techniques should be practiced on dead animals (cervical dislocation, decapitation, stunning).
    
4. Attend the DEC hunter education course or an NRA-sponsored firearms safety course, or the pesticide applicator course, if you'd like to use firearms or pesticides (including repellents) in your NWCO work.
    
5. Create the kind of stinky situations you might encounter on the job, then experiment with ways to control the odors. Try out various odor control products. Which work well?
    
6. Read the 2000 Report of the American Veterinarian Medical Association Panel on Euthanasia. In addition to the added information in this report, it has an extensive bibliography that would lead you to other credible sources of information.
    
7. Collect animal skulls. Use them to help employees understand the proper location of a head shot for each of the species you handle (if shooting is a preferred killing method for that species).

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