Pledge to protect your Wild Neighbors
Rather than calling for the trapping and killing of “nuisance” wildlife, pledge to recognize the value and importance of wildlife in urban areas, and prioritize effective and humane solutions for conflicts with wildlife.

Every year millions of wild animals are unnecessarily killed with traps and other cruel methods in misguided and ineffective attempts at solving conflicts among people, pets and wildlife. These methods don’t address the root causes of conflicts between people and wildlife or acknowledge the important role that wildlife serves in our communities.
Animal care and control professionals are bearing the brunt of handling these wildlife conflict issues, and therefore have the power to break this cycle of unnecessary killing by putting in place humane and effective protocols for responding to wildlife conflicts and communicating messages of tolerance about wildlife to the public.
We invite you to become a part of this movement by signing Humane World for Animals’ Wild Neighbors™ Pledge, which is a commitment to using humane solutions for conflicts with wildlife and promoting coexistence with your community’s wild neighbors.
After signing the pledge, you will receive an eye-catching sign to place in your shelter or agency’s window that announces your signing of the pledge and commitment to protecting wildlife.
Our shelter/agency/organization agrees to take the Humane World for Animals' Wild Neighbors™ Pledge. We pledge to protect our wild neighbors by:
Please select at least one of the following commitments:
- Using humane solutions for conflicts with wildlife. Our organization only euthanizes healthy wildlife when necessary to protect human health and safety, and not for nuisance reasons. We do not pick up or accept wildlife into our facility from the public for nuisance reasons or from nuisance wildlife control operators. Instead, we use and promote humane and effective solutions that address the root causes of conflicts with wildlife.
- Limiting the use of traps for wildlife to cases of injured/sick wildlife and wildlife inside the living spaces of human structures. Our organization does not use or provide traps to the public for the purpose of trapping and removing wildlife from in and around human structures. Only in instances where eviction is not possible and dependent young are considered are traps deployed, and wildlife is immediately released on-site. Instead, we advise the public on long-term solutions for wildlife conflicts, such as those presented on wildneighbors.org.
- Only capturing and or euthanizing healthy rabies vector species (RVS) when potential rabies exposure cannot be ruled out. Our organization does not automatically euthanize species classified as RVS, including bats, unless a potential rabies exposure cannot be ruled out.