Despite his "Turtleman" nickname, Brown catches all types of nuisance animals, including raccoons, skunks, snakes, venomous spiders, and possums.

Increasingly, trappers focus on nuisance animals like beavers, muskrats or raccoons that suburbanites want removed.

My unsentimental frontier view of nuisance animals, formed by foxes and coyotes that decimated sheep herds, does not apply in Westchester.

It is so stable in some places that it has become a nuisance animal in the regions that it inhabits.

Powerheads are often used for spear fishing and against sharks or alligators for sport, defense, or to kill nuisance animals.

Wild hogs may be hunted as nuisance animals but only during open hunting seasons.

The first and foremost objective is to elevate public safety and health through the control of nuisance animals.

According to the state Department of Environmental Conservation, nuisance animals caught in buildings should be humanely killed, not transported elsewhere and released.

In nearby Somers, George Bates, a licensed trapper of nuisance animals, is receiving "more and more calls about coyotes."

Often nuisance animals become accustomed to these tactics, and will return later if exposed to these devices daily.