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Fed Wildlife is Dead Wildlife — If

You Care, Don’t Feed Flashback Photo

The Thurmont Code Enforcement Office has received numerous complaints
regarding an outbreak of skunks in the area of Tippin Drive, Redhaven Court,
and Bosc Court in Thurmont. It is important that all residents understand not Gladys Baker donated an old scrapbook to the historical society. In the
to feed wildlife. Consider these facts before you feed wildlife.
scrapbook was a flashback photo of the 1929 Emmitsburg High School
• Providing unnatural food encourages wildlife to congregate in numbers, woman’s basketball team, featured in The Baltimore Sun (March 18,
leading to territorial fighting and attacks by predators. 1929).
• Wild animals may bite, scratch, or threaten people or pets. Wildlife
fed by humans often lose their natural fear of people. Nearly any wild The Baltimore Sun
animal, no matter how timid it may appear, is capable of inflicting injury
to humans, pets, and livestock. “Enthusiasm runs high as the Emmitsburg High School girls
• Feeding a single wild animal can quickly lead to having many at your basketball sextet, after a most successful season on the court, will trot
doorstep and at the doorsteps of those that live near you. out against the Frederick High School’s team for the Frederick County
League championship at Middletown on Friday. These two rivals closed
• Wild animals may come into conflict with your pets, with potentially the regular league schedule in a deadlock.”
disastrous results.
• Wild animals could bring parasites into your yard that could be deadly
to you, your family, and your pets.
• Wild animals can carry many diseases that readily spread to people,
pets, and livestock, including rabies, Lyme disease, salmonellosis, Rocky
Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, distempers, and encephalitis.
• Wild animals may become dependent upon humans, making them more
dangerous by having no fear towards humans.
• Wildlife you feed today may be killed as pests tomorrow.

Don’t harm wildlife with your kindness. Help them remain healthy, safe,
and free. Please do not feed the wildlife, for their health and for your safety.
For more information regarding feeding wildlife, please look at Maryland
Department of Natural Resources at www.dnr.maryland.gov/wildlife/Pages/
plants_wildlife/Feeding-Wildlife.aspx.

Emmitsburg High School Girls Squad: Pictured from left: (top row) Ruth Waybright,
Charlotte Shriver, Mary Fuss, Prof. Homer Guyton (coach), Carrie Miller, Mabel
Naylor, Rachel Smith (manager); (middle row) Mary Franklin, Helen Stonesifer, Jan
Baumgardner; (bottom row) Pauline Baumgardner, Anne Hoke.

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