Why Shouldn't You Feed Wildlife?

Need wildlife removal in your hometown? Click here for our nationwide list of critter trappers. Please don't feed wild animals! Yes, it's fun to do! Many people feel good doing it. They think they're helping the critters. People get a warm fuzzy feeling inside. BUT FEEDING WILD ANIMALS HURTS THEM. Absolutely. If you make wild animals dependent on human food sources, they lose some of their ability to survive in the wild, and often it results in dangerous encounters between people and animals. Also, I've seen dozens of horrific cases of diseased and malnourished packs of raccoons and even foxes as a result of people leaving out food for them. This is because feeding causes a bunch of animals to get together, and dependent on human feeding, and they breed in excess of what the normal environment will support, and then you've got a lot of wild animals in one small area, they fight, they spread disease between each other, and the population grows too large to feed, and heaven help them when the overwhelmed human stops feeding them, they all starve even worse.