>> Wary of it.
There's plenty of people out there that try to do this kind of work without being regulated
by the Department of Natural Resources and that's a no-no
because there are certain ways to deal with animals.
Certain animals can be relocated, others animals have to be euthanized.
So you have to be up on all of the rules and regulations, you have to take a test
to be able to do this kind of work.
That's why we don't encourage trapping animals that have to be euthanized.
That why we encourage blocking the entry point so they can't get into the house.
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has a website you can go on
and they have a test you can actually take online.
I highly recommend people work with animals before they even take that test.
Read all you can because animals are a lot like humans, they need food, shelter and water.
And once you learn their habits they're easier to control
and maintain without killing them actually.
>> What do you do [inaudible]?
>> Well if you fry them in butter they taste just like chicken.
Squirrels can be relocated.
If it's a nice day or nice weather like springtime we can relocate them no problem.
They can find shelter, food and water.
Raccoons if you take them off someone's property, fox or skunk they have
to be euthanized because they are mammals that carry rabies
and DNR highly regulates the rabies vectors, which is skunk, fox and raccoon.
So squirrels and chipmunks and snakes are okay.
In fact a snake has to be release within a mile of where you find it
because that's his area where he has food, shelter.
I was at a friend's house enjoying a few cold ones,
North Point police station called me and asked me if I handled Emus.
I said absolutely.
Not knowing what an Emu was back then.
So I pull up to the job site and all these police officers have an Emu surrounded
with their guns and flashlights, and I'm thinking come on guys, its a little goose.
[Laughter] So I go walking up and the little goose turned up to be about five foot tall.
But when I grabbed him by his neck he kicked me in my chest and it knocked me three foot back.
So the cops are all laughing, the Emu takes off into the brush.
I go out after him, I grab him by his foot and he pulls his foot back and slices my hand open
because they have spines on their feet like an alligator's tail which I didn't know.
So by now the cops are laughing so hard they're almost peeing their pants.
So I didn't want to lose face, so I took off my belt, chase it into the woods again,
wrap it around his neck, drag him out to my truck, throw him up in the truck.
It was an Emu two, Schumacher one [laughter].
That was definitely the worst experience ever because I didn't know what an Emu was.
I'd never studied about them and I didn't give them enough credit.