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If you have horses, got to shoot possums, you can’t let them get to horse feed. If not they eat a lot of ticks and don’t carry rabies.

I was scrolling quickly and read the p as a b in the title.

So obviously, I am very disappointed with the content of this thread.

I caught this suckka' a few months ago. I gave it to a messikan and I know not it's fate:

you would be surprised how big possums and skunks can get when they are eating well and dont live close to the highway

Used to hate catching one while predator trapping....seemed like the only thing that would put a set out of business. Catch a damn possum and have to build another set close by.

The business of them eating ticks has been debunked as plain old bullshit.

Put 12 rds of 380 hp into one not long ago sumbitch was leakin like a busted pipe up in a tree they see no quarter here

Who was the old member who hated them so bad?


Had a story about one crawling out of a large animal

RWE

Last seen on the 3rd.

Killed one on the porch with a hatchet a few weeks ago.

Why did the chicken cross the road? To show the possum it could be done.
We were frog grabbing one night and shined our Q-Beam up on the bank at a dead cow carcass. Eyes were everywhere. We interrupted a possum banquet. Some were on and in the carcass. 14 in all! Yuck! Some call em grinners. I’ve caught them in Hav-a-Heart cage traps and they seem to get caught easily. I tried to bottle feed a young orphan once but it succumbed to a respiratory ailment. Funny gait when they run with their tail straight up. They can hang by their tails also. Dad removed one from a neighbor’s garage and it had little tails hanging underneath. The babies were in the pouch. They were blind and clawed their way back in when up pulled them out. There seems to be more road killed on a full moon.

I did one in with a 2x4. It was the biggest one I have seen. Killed him just because.... I had meat rabbits. RZ.

Had one hiss at me like a dragon one time before a 3 inch mag #4 blew his mind🤯

Late one night when I was a kid, there was a helluva' fight outside my bedroom window. Turned out to be an opossum vs. a feral cat. Lots of racket.

carrollco,
Baby possums can't poop by themselves.
If you have to bottle feed them,you have to stimulate (rub) there butthole to
get them to crap. Otherwise, they fill up with shìt and die.
Tiny kittens are the same.



If you want to be a "Good Mother",
lick their butt like a Possim Mom would!

The above was serious, but it doesn't sound it!😄







Absolutely serious about this one too,
i've been pondering it for 30 years.





How come roadkill possums blow apart on rainy nights?

On a dry night, you see dead possums, and pizza possums.

But on a rainy night?
They all look like a bomb went offensive them?


Observations and thoughts from a Bored Ass Trucker,
with too much time on his mind.

A big racoon got in my attic a few ago so I set a live trap to catch it. All I caught at first was possums and I just took them go far away from where I live and released them. I found out that raccoons love marsh mellows so I baited the trap with marsh mellows and caught a huge boar coon the first night. I shot him in the head with a pellet gun and hauled him off for the possums/buzzards to eat.