Urban Possum Varmit...Freeper needs advice on how to get rid of possum living under porch.

8/9/03 | self

[Imagine]

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

[Aracelis]

This might be of some help...

Or maybe some peanut butter and a live trap?

[woofie]

Get the UN involved

[Arkinsaw]

Don't worry, he will soon leave for their normal habitat.......which is the middle of the highway.

[Overtaxed]

We caught a possum and a few birds on the unsuccessful Operation Squirrel Relocation. Figgured we'd better stop before we caught a skunk.

[Utah Binger]

Pour water down his hole. Trouble is finding sombody to hold him.

[DeFault User]

Have you considered sanctions and inspections? What would Jacques Chirac do?

[theFIRMbss]

[Constitution Day]

You've got skunks up your way?
I have never seen or heard of one here in eastern NC. We do have black bears, though.

[jjbrouwer]

You know you can actually eat the critters once you catch them:

Possum Stew

Ingredients:
two cans of tomato sauce
three cans of cooked tomatoes
1/2 thickly sliced warthog meat (mainly for flavor)
a big bag of pasta noodles (any redneck kind will do)
salt and pepper
1/2 possum (other 1/2 can be used for breakfast possum-omelettes)

Directions:
Fry bacon in big gramma kettle, over mid. size fire, then fry possum in the grease till golden brown. Take the meat out, then add enough water to pot to fill 2/3 way and then boil noodles. Once cooked add both cans of tomatoes to kettle and meat and add salt and pepper. Cook all together for a bout 1 hour simmering over low fire to sautee.

(I have no idea what a gramma kettle is, by the way.)

[Imagine]

Any Warthog pilots out there. If so, do the A-10s carry napalm?

[Sacajaweau]

Yeh, call PETA. They'll bring food for the critter and sit on your porch until you move. God forbid, it's pregnant.

Try your local animal control. Tell them it was acting viciously....that it went crazy!!

[spokeshave]

Try a mixture of propane and oxygen....retire to a safe distance and ignite.

There is a company that makes back pack systems ....tanks of propane and O2 with nozzle probe.

Also makes a handy dandy attachment to the underside of your car ( left and right hand jets) to deter car jacking.....the very popular in Durban, Cape Town and other urban conurbations in South Africa.

[poindexter]

Borrow a dog?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Get a dog or a wildcat.

Sit back and watch the show. Also works to keep other people's pets and small children out of your yard.

But if you don't want to be sued use a possum trap. I think you are suppose to use fish of some kind as a bait.

Mothballs are suppose to drive them away but I never had any luck with that.

[cubreporter]

Why not call an Animal Rescue place? We had the same problem with skunks...a whole family of them. The Animal Rescue set traps and it was simple, easy and they skunks were relocated to the wild with no one hurt and our "no vacancy" sign out. :) Give it a try.

[cubreporter]

Wow

[magslinger]

You might try live capture traps, they are available from the county animal control here. You then have the problem of finding an area to release it where you won't get shot at for doing so. I would put some mothballs under the porch. The little critter WILL move out. Make sure you close off or mothball any other posible den, though. We had a woodchuck moving around our neighborhood for a few weeks that way this summer.

[my right]

Mothballs scattered about should do the trick.

Now how do you capture the moths??

[Overtaxed]

I've smelled one or two in the Chapel Hill area (real ones....not the usual :) ) so it's possible that they're around E. Wake. I didn't want to wait to find out since I'd be the one to de-skunk the trap.