This question, what should I do with a wild Peoria animal after I catch it, is a very tricky one because by trapping the animal alive you are probably signifying that you do not wish to harm the animal but the truth of the matter is once trapped you have limited options over what to do with it if you definitely want it to survive, the obvious one of course is you release it close to where you caught it. The other main answer to that question is that you find a wildlife carer willing to take the animal and care for it, the main problem you're going to have here is that if you did a good job of catching it and it is unharmed most wildlife carers will not want to take it as their purpose is to care for injured wildlife only.



Of course you could call a wildlife carer and say the Illinois animal is injured which if it was caught in a cage trap there is more than likely going to be some minor damage to the animal at least. This is going to be obvious as most likely the animal fought quite hard to escape, and in the process damage to its teeth and maybe it's claws as well, this is one time when a little bit of blood may be a good thing, so don't do anything to reduce the animal's chances of being taken like hosing it off.

All the experts agree that relocation of a wild Peoria animal is not really an option you should use except in one case, if you're wild animal happens to be an armadillo then by all means relocated wherever you like outside of your five-mile radius, because armadillos will not care one way or the other, they will just carry on. Relocating animals like bats is a waste of time as they have been known to return to their place of capture within two days even after being relocated 70 miles from that place.

Most other species of mammals in particular, like Illinois raccoons and squirrels, according to all the information are unlikely to survive a week in the new location. Squirrels in particular will head straight for home no matter what the obstacles in their way, they do this mainly because they need the food they stashed in the spring and summer to survive the winter and the only stash of food they know that they can use to survive the winter is where you caught them. A lot of other animals like raccoons are territorial so releasing a strange animal into another's territory will just get the stranger killed in short order usually.

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