Hey Defenders! This year we are having an awesome costume contest for the 2019 Halloween season, but not just any costume contest! This is a costume contest for your pet! That’s right defenders, your pet! Pets totally have the right to enjoy Halloween with us, but not the scary, super intense Halloween, the cute and…
Hey Defenders! We have a major theme going this month for all of our content and it is HALLOWEEN THEME! Halloween is so much fun and it seems like every year it gets bigger and bigger. More people go all out, creating some of the craziest and most exciting Halloween decorated houses then ever before. …
There is always so many things to do on Halloween night and the days leading up to Halloween. We are always getting calls to make appearances at events during this season, like Halloween carnivals. So we know how many events there are out there and we know choosing can be hard. You can follow our…
This year’s Halloween is right around the corner and we know it is such a popular holiday, so we wanted to do anything we could to get involved. There are pumpkin patches, carnivals, fall festivals, spooky haunted houses, and of course the spooky specials offered by Critter Squad Wildlife Defender’s. We have four amazing spooky…
This week we’ve got someone a little creepy crawly for our Animal of the Week…it’s the California Mantis! These awesome invertebrates are part of the Mantid family, just like the praying mantis. Like their name suggests, these insects are found in the wild in the United States. Generally they are found in the drier/warmer areas…
Greetings Defenders! We’ve got another apex predator for our Animal of the Week, and this one loves it nice and cold. That’s right, it’s the classic Polar Bear! One of the largest species of bear on the planet, the Polar Bear is a hypercarnivore. Adult males are known as “boars” while females are known as…
We’ve got another iconic Animal of the Week, and this time it’s the great Grey Wolf! The Grey/Gray Wolf, also known as the Timber Wolf, is the largest living wolf species on the planet. These amazing animals can have fur ranging from red and brown, to nearly pure white or black. The diet of a…
Feeling hungry? Well no matter how hungry you are, you won’t be able to eat more than our newest Animal of the Week! These glorious mammals are known as the 3rd largest animal on land, and actually the most dangerous animal in their native Africa. If you haven’t already guessed, it’s the Hippopotamus! Hippos are…
Hey Defenders! Anyone who has been to elementary school has probably heard of word searches. Word searches are a fun puzzle for children and adults to work on that come in a variety of categories and range from easy to hard. Word Searches were first invented in the United States on March 1st, 1968 in…
Hey Defenders! Everyone is familiar with scorpions. These iconic creatures are well known for their pincers and their powerful tails and stingers. Scorpions are arachnids and have a crunchy outside called an exoskeleton. These exoskeletons help keep the scorpion rigid and gives them structure. Since scorpions don’t have bones like other organisms we call them…