Any job working with the public involves a few irate phone calls, though. Sometimes citizens call to complain about raccoons digging up yards or birds in attics. Mack laughingly recalls a zany plea from a woman complaining about birds in her yard. She said she owned that land and didn t want to share it with them. This kind of attitude drives him nuts.
Animals don t understand property lines.
You share your space with wildlife, says Mack philosophically. The thing you have to understand is that it s all habitat to them. A hole under your house is the same as a hole in a log. He hopes the evolving PAWS Wildlife Solutions Program will aid in easing animal-human relations, since animals generally lose in these conflicts. Mack offers practical advice to callers, such as staking down sod that a raccoon is busily digging up.