Mark E. Dotson

My next stop was one of my fun ones. A raccoon was coming in the pet door and eating the cat's food. The owner didn't think it was too funny, but this always is to me. I can just imagine standing there watching this raccoon eating all of my pet's food. The cat sure wasn't going to do anything about...more >>

Trapping gophers is an interesting task. They are not too difficult to trap and are rather neat animals to study.

The next stop supposedly had a skunk in a cage. There shouldn't have been a skunk in that cage; it should have been another raccoon. Great!

The alarm clock rang and I rolled over to see what time it was. It was 7 am and I needed to hit the road early today. My schedule was full, and I wanted to catch an hour on the sun.

In 2007, a mysterious fungus was discovered growing on the muzzles of several bats hibernating in caves near Albany, N.Y., and the term “White Nose Syndrome” was initiated to describe this phenomenon.

Here's a response to Marty Whitford's racoon column from last week.