AAAC Wildlife Removal of Nashville

03/18/2026

April through June is coyote pup season.

This is the most dangerous window of the year for small outdoor pets.

Coyote parents are actively hunting to feed pups — and they're bolder, more aggressive, and hunting in broader territory than any other time of year.

Coyote sightings increase starting in spring and peak around May as they search for food for newborn pups.

The numbers:
→ Coyotes now confirmed in all 50 US states
→ Population expanded 300%+ in suburbs over two decades
→ Urban coyote studies show pets make up significant portions of suburban coyote diets
→ Peak predation risk: dawn and dusk
→ Small dogs and outdoor cats under 25 lbs are most vulnerable

"But I've never seen a coyote."
That's the point. They're crepuscular — most active at dawn and dusk when you're not watching.

What NOT to do:
→ Don't leave small pets outside unsupervised at dawn/dusk
→ Don't leave pet food outdoors
→ Don't leave fallen fruit under trees
→ Don't run from a coyote (triggers chase instinct)

What TO do:
→ "Haze" coyotes: face them, yell, wave arms, throw objects near (not at) them
→ Supervise small pets during dawn/dusk
→ Install motion-activated lights/sprinklers
→ Remove attractants (trash, pet food, bird feeders)
→ Keep cats indoors (always, but especially now)

Important context:
Coyotes fill the ecological role of the wolves we eliminated.
They control rodent populations.
Areas with coyotes have lower rates of tick-borne disease.
Killing them triggers compensatory reproduction — larger litters.

We created this situation.
Coexistence — with precautions — is the only strategy that works.

Pup season ends by late June.
Your vigilance needs to start now.

03/10/2026

Squirrels just don't cause a problem in your homes they cause a problem for thousands across Nashville as well!

Thousands of people in one area of Nashville were without power on Monday morning — all because of a squirrel.

03/10/2026

The opossum in your yard just gave birth to twenty-five babies. Each one is the size of a honeybee.

After only twelve to thirteen days of pregnancy — the shortest of any North American mammal — she delivers up to twenty-five young at once. Blind. Deaf. No fur. Barely formed. They look like pink jellybeans with oversized front arms.

The moment they're born, they crawl. Unassisted. From the birth canal to the pouch. Three inches of fur. For a baby the size of a bee, that's the longest journey of its life.

They can't see. They can't hear. They navigate by instinct and gravity alone, pulling themselves forward with those tiny arms until they reach the pouch and find a ni**le.

She has exactly thirteen ni**les. Up to twenty-five babies are making the climb. The first thirteen to latch on stay attached for the next two months. The pouch closes around them and they fuse to the ni**le while they finish developing — eyes, ears, fur, everything that wasn't ready at birth forms inside the pouch.

This system has been running for since opossums have existed. The short pregnancy, the massive litter, the pouch — it's not primitive. It's the oldest working reproductive strategy on the continent.

She only lives one to two years. She compensates by doing this twice a year. The math works because it's been working longer than most mammal lineages have existed.

🐾 If an opossum is in your yard this spring:

- A mother with a swollen pouch is carrying developing young — she's not injured or sick, she's working. Leave her alone and she'll move through your yard on her nightly route
- By late spring, the babies ride on her back — up to thirteen small opossums clinging to the mother as she forages. It looks precarious but they rarely fall
- If you find a baby opossum alone and it's smaller than seven inches nose to tail, it needs help — contact a wildlife rehabilitator. Larger than seven inches and it's likely independent
- Opossums eat carrion, slugs, ground nesting eggs, snakes, small invertebrates and fallen fruit . A mother with a pouch full of young is doing more pest control per night than almost anything else in your neighborhood

That slow quiet animal crossing your yard tonight is running the oldest reproductive system in North America. And she does it twice a year 🌿

02/18/2026

Don't let squirrels and other rodents live in your attic!

02/04/2026

skunk removal!!

02/04/2026

Setting stone skunk traps today!! Call us 615-265-6504

02/01/2026

a little Sunday afternoon clearing trees and sitting by a fire!

01/25/2026

OK y'all, since we're all tapped inside let's keep this going...

She fell in love with a crane operator and was let down.

She fell in love with an electrician and was shocked.

keep it going!

12/11/2025

Dawn Cordes Adams and I went to our first NHL game Tuesday night. We had an absolute blast. Nashville Predators were in dead last place and played the Colorado Avalanche who are in 1st place, and went into overtime, then a shoot out taking the win.

10/17/2025

Snake in a crawlspace!