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Urban Possum Varmit...Freeper needs advice on how to get rid of possum living under porch.
8/9/03 | self

Posted on 08/09/2003 8:35:51 AM PDT by Imagine

I've got a possum living under my porch diggin up stuff during the night. Any suggestions on capturing or killing the critter???


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KEYWORDS: catchingpossums; possum; turass; wildlife
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To: wardaddy
Ya know, that's why I love real men. Willing to fight for their superiority over invading varmits! (and proud of the scars too!) The weenies would howl about "animal rights..."
141 posted on 08/09/2003 10:27:01 AM PDT by Maigrey (Screen Lickin' Dose Diva and d(ang) proud of it!)
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To: Squantos
Mid-90's in town. We're finally getting some rain in the afternoons.
142 posted on 08/09/2003 10:28:00 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Arkinsaw
Drat! You beat me to it!
143 posted on 08/09/2003 10:29:46 AM PDT by reg45
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To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
How does a redneck propose?

" Weuns been cousuns faw a long time naow, Sadie Mae, an....."

144 posted on 08/09/2003 10:30:32 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Our enemies within are very slick, but slime is always treacherously slick, isn't it?)
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To: F.J. Mitchell
You might be a redneck if...

...you have to put on shoes to go to the bathroom at night.

145 posted on 08/09/2003 10:31:12 AM PDT by jjbrouwer (Whaddyou talkin' about, Terminator?)
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To: Imagine
I've got a possum living under my porch diggin up stuff during the night. Any suggestions on capturing or killing the critter???

Toss an ammonia-soaked rag under there, which will flush out the possum. Then shoot it.

146 posted on 08/09/2003 10:32:45 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: theFIRMbss
Great picture!

This reminds me of a possum we had laying in our road outside my house. He was a great actor! He REALLY looked dead. After a few weeks, he progressed his act of feigning death and emitted scents that were even more convincing. Somehow he made his body flatter and flatter.

One day, the pancake-flat actor was gone! So we threw a huge Possum Going Away Party. 'Twas a gala affair.



147 posted on 08/09/2003 10:34:50 AM PDT by gitmo (We have left the slippery slope and we are now in free fall.)
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To: wardaddy
I guess I'm just particularly sensitive when it comes to raccoons since they're my very favorite animal. When I lived in my old house, I even used to leave food out especially for them. I even have a bumpersticker on my car that says "I love raccoons." So nevermind me. I'm truly a raccoon fanatic.
148 posted on 08/09/2003 10:35:20 AM PDT by Fraulein
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To: DeFault User
Where do you release him?

Sen. Clinton (D-NY) has a basement! Being that she is really from Arkansas and is the "smartest woman in the world", she will know what to do!

149 posted on 08/09/2003 10:37:56 AM PDT by reg45
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To: Kevin Curry
"Yeah, but then you have three dashhounds to get rid of."

Not a problem-you just find a cowboy who is following the advice of that song writer who said: Get a long little doggie, get a long little doggie, get a long....
150 posted on 08/09/2003 10:39:58 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Our enemies within are very slick, but slime is always treacherously slick, isn't it?)
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To: jjbrouwer
Gramma kettle is a big iron pot used in past years over an open fire.....prairie style.
151 posted on 08/09/2003 10:42:02 AM PDT by mrtysmm
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Almost New Mex Monsoon season .......hang in there ! It'll be colder than a well diggers ass soon enough !

Stay Safe Slim !!

152 posted on 08/09/2003 10:42:35 AM PDT by Squantos (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
You have precisely described the events here. I set the trap for another coon, the one that dug around the trap and lots of my wife's plants, however, I caught a possum instead.
153 posted on 08/09/2003 10:44:54 AM PDT by bert (Don't Panic!)
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To: Imagine
Contact Carl Spackler.


154 posted on 08/09/2003 10:48:48 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Kevin Curry
Yeah, but then you have three dachshunds to get rid of.

Your name is cruelty! :)

155 posted on 08/09/2003 10:51:51 AM PDT by LibKill (The sacred word, TANSTAAFL.)
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To: mrtysmm
Ah, thanks for the explanation. I tried looking it up on google but couldn't find anything.
156 posted on 08/09/2003 10:52:56 AM PDT by jjbrouwer (Whaddyou talkin' about, Terminator?)
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To: yianni
Don't waste the prescription quality Coumadin, it's too expensive. Just get some rat poison containing Warfarin (the two are chemically the same). The Warfarin is much stronger and will kill the critter faster. Then send someone in to retrieve the carcass or else you will have a big stink under the house.

or

Call Animal Control.

You live in the high tax, crypto-Socialist state of Connecticut. You may as well get some benefit from those high taxes you pay.

157 posted on 08/09/2003 10:53:03 AM PDT by reg45
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To: Maigrey
Yes it works on raccoons also.
158 posted on 08/09/2003 10:55:43 AM PDT by CONSERVE
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To: Imagine
According to the old Mother Earth News magazine, possum's, rats and other assorted pests lack one crucial biological capability of higher animals: they can't burp. Therefore, the magazine suggested putting out pails of beer (pick a cheap brand with lot's of carbonation). The varmints will be drawn to the smell and drink the beer, but since they can't burp they will gradually swell up, until they pop.

Now, I assume that this was done as a joke and that the tale is untrue, but the illustration of the afflicted critter, obviously blotto, but also swollen to near bursting, was priceless. By the way, if this is true, at least I know that family pets will be safe, since cats can burp (our's does, regularly, and looks pleased about it) and dogs have another way of expelling the excess gas (but they always blame it on their human).

159 posted on 08/09/2003 10:57:52 AM PDT by Phsstpok
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To: Imagine
Mothballs.
160 posted on 08/09/2003 11:05:43 AM PDT by tkathy
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