[Stay the course]

Vermin is right. Possums, coons, skunks, they're all disease-ridden, thieving pains in the ass. They like to take up residence in my barn in the winter and eat my corn and crap all over my hay. I say terminate with extreme prejudice. Shovel, pitchfork, crowbar, whatever's handy. I usually drown the skunks, though. No sense taking chances.

[HairOfTheDog]

Perhaps city life is the best place for you.

[cav68]

Chicken stealing, bitty eating SOB, add a jar of John Boy and Billy's BBQ Sauce and have at it. Reminds of me of the Darling Family's Annual 4th of July Picnic fixings on Andy Griffith show.

[Calvin Locke]

My ex had a garden. Home early one day, saw this white thing scramble from under a low deck. Okay, wife's been complaining about plants being eaten...must be the woodchuck.

I bought a havahart and finally trapped that white thing.

Told the wife I took care of it, but it was really rat looking..."That was a opossum!". "Oh" says I. "But it came
out from under the deck..."

For those that need to know: Broccoli for woodchucks. Peanut butter for squirrels, cats, skunks, and um, opossums.

[bigfootbob]

"Vermin is right. Possums, coons, skunks, they're all disease-ridden, thieving pains in the ass."

I was walking in the woods of southern Indiana when I was a teenager and came across a dead feral hog or wild boar. I didn't get too close because it was very pungent and I noticed the body cavity seemed to be moving. I thought it was maggot infestation. Wrong! I shot the carcass with my .410 shotgun I had with me and about a dozen possums ran out from the rectal area of the carcass.

I later learned from my Grandfather that the avenue of choice into a carcass for a possum is via the rectum. They eat their way into the good stuff.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Wonder if they will eat jawbreakers or bubblegum like prairie dogs? Dad used to feed the prairie dogs one of these because it killed them.

[Rebelbase]

” I usually drown the skunks, though. No sense taking chances. “

My GF’s son shot one and left it sitting beside the central AC unit all night.

The next morning was pandemonium in the house.