The first thing you should know about relocating a wild Oklahoma City animal you have trapped is you must find out first of all if trapping it is legal, you should have a permit at least before you even set the trap, but you must also know it is actually legal to relocate it because in some jurisdictions it is illegal to relocate any wild animal. The main state that has this type of regulation and does enforce it vigorously is Massachusetts but other states also have the same type of regulations. The main reason for these regulations is the most relocated wildlife do not survive the first week and therefore relocating them is considered cruel, also most do-it-yourself trappers leave babies behind in the nest that slowly starve to death which is considered cruel also.



There is another consideration when relocating wild Oklahoma animals, if the animal you are relocating happens to have a disease or pest that the animals in the new location do not have been by releasing your trapped animal you are also releasing that disease or pest into the local wild populations and considering that if you trap the animal in the first place alive you probably don't wish to harm them then I doubt you would want to be spreading diseases or pests either.

Another downside to relocating Oklahoma City animals that currently live around your house is that as soon as you relocate one the odds are another one will move right into its vacated territory so you've probably actually achieved nothing at all for yourself, all you managed to do is to kill the animal you relocated. Before you think, okay I'll hand it over to wildlife control and they can deal with it, again if you trapped it alive I assume you wish the animal no harm, if you hand a wild animal to your local wildlife control they will do what they consider the humane thing and euthanize it.

Recently some Oklahoma animal control agencies are reporting after running some trials that larger animals like raccoons and opossum's can return to their place of capture after being relocated up to 15 miles away, why this is suddenly occurring is probably to do more with the urban landscape the animals are comfortable in than anything else, if these animals left in the wild in the woods their survival chances are practically zero but if they can get back to an urban area they are right at home it seems.

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