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Become a Member of Animal Rescue Team

Become a Member of Animal Rescue Team

Pledge your support of animals in need when you join as an Animal Rescue Team member. Membership directly support animals in need. To join our team please click here.

Cancellation Process for 12 D-Con Mouse and Rat Poison Products

Cancellation Process for 12 D-Con Mouse and Rat Poison Products News 3/11/13: EPA to Hold Pesticide Cancellation Hearing 1/30/13: EPA Moves to Ban 12 D-Con Mouse and Rat Control Products / Action Will Prevent Thousands of Accidental Exposures Among Children Each Year Rodenticides SAP Meeting November 29 – December 1, 2011 SAP Meeting EPA-HQ-OPP-2011-0718 […]

MOUNTAIN LION BIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR

MOUNTAIN LION BIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR

SCIENTIFIC NAME Puma concolor – Cat of one color

COMMON NAMES Puma concolor is listed in dictionaries under more names than any other animal in the world. There are at least 18 South American native terms, 25 native North American, and 40 English names for mountain lions. The species most […]

COYOTES

Wild Animals Ruined, Even Killed, by People’s Carelessness!

Wild animals are in trouble, and the problem is people who are careless with food and garbage. Coyotes play an important role in the ecosystem, helping to keep rodent populations under control. They are by nature fearful of humans.

If coyotes are given access to human food […]

Vole Control

Vole Control

Rodent baits are often used to control voles. Their populations tend to be cyclical and once established, vole colonies are not easy to control. One of the most effective ways to discourage voles from moving in is to simply mow grasses down to no more than two inches or disk around sites that […]

Rodenticides can harm wildlife; please use carefully

Rodenticides can harm wildlife; please use carefully

Throughout California, the careless use of poison baits used to control rodents has injured and killed numerous wild animals and pets. This is because scavenging birds like owls, hawks, and predators such as raccoons, foxes, skunks and coyotes that eat dead or dying rodents that have consumed these […]

Stop the painful poisoning deaths of wildlife, pets and people from Compound 1080 and sodium cyanide.

Stop the painful poisoning deaths of wildlife, pets and people from Compound 1080 and sodium cyanide.

Compound 1080 and another deadly poison used regularly by Wildlife Services, sodium cyanide, are ranked Level 1 by the EPA for their “high degree of acute toxicity.” They’re meant to protect livestock from native predators. But other animals, including […]

Letters: Opinion: Out of the Wild

Julia J. Di Sieno, the author is executive director and co-founder of Animal Rescue Team, Inc November 11, 2012 12:35 AM

I found a recent letter to the editor in the Voices section, “Rocky relationship with local raccoons,” a little disturbing. The author asks: “Why can’t something be done?” and suggests that Animal Control […]

A Magical Night!

Fundraiser for the animals

By SCOTT STEEPLETON NEWS-PRESS CITY EDITOR

At the fundraiser for Animal Rescue Team Inc., Julia Di Sieno, right, the organization’s executive director, paid tribute to, from left, Dr. Scott Weldy , a veterinarian at Serrano Animal and Bird Hospital in Lake Forest, Dr. Kristi Krause, also a vet at Serrano […]