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WILDLIFE AND PUMPKINS—IMPORTANT ADVICE!

Posted on by PAHS Staff
02
Oct

 

WILDLIFE AND PUMPKINS—IMPORTANT ADVICE!

 

PSA: PLEASE!!!! DO NOT bleach your pumpkins to make them last longer!! We’ve seen this tip being shared all over social media this season! Please remember pumpkins are food, especially to lots of the wildlife! Deer, squirrels, raccoons, possums, mice, rats, chipmunks, birds, and even bugs. We deliberately stick them outside somewhere where wildlife can access them and we DO NOT want our wildlife eating bleached pumpkins!!!

 

Instead, try using vinegar. 1 part vinegar to 10 parts water will work just as well. Thanks!

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PAHS Staff

The Palo Alto Humane Society is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit, charitable, volunteer-supported organization. PAHS is one of the few humane societies nationwide with no animal shelter. Instead of managing animals inside a shelter, we work to keep animals out of the shelter through humane programs in intervention, advocacy, and education. For a century, our mission has been to alleviate the suffering of animals, increase public sensitivity to animal issues, and elevate the status of animals in our society.