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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: jjbrouwer
My children are hungry, and my dog needs a bone.
I ain't got a job now, so I'm just drivin home.
An hour after sundown, and much to my delight.
There's five pounds of possum, in my headlights tonight.


There's five pounds of possum, in my headlights tonight.
If I can run him over, everything's gonna be alright.
We'll have some possum gravy, oh what a wonderful sight.
There's five pounds of possum, in my headlights tonight.


Don't have to kill no chicken, don't have to open no can.
Just a little bit closer and I'll have him in my hand.
I think the time has come now to dose him with the brights.
There's five pounds of possum, in my headlights tonight.
61 posted on 08/09/2003 9:00:29 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Imagine
Speaking from the experience of having caught a live possum day before yesterday, here's how to solve the problem.

Go to your brother-in-law and borrow his live trap. In the early evening place some cat food and goodies in the trap.

The next morning, take trap and possum far away and release.

If there is a brother-in-law problem, many hardware stores stock live traps.

I also caught two young coons earlier in the week. I hope I have solved the nightly problem of a turned over bird bath, but doubt it. There are frequent possum road kill on the streets and I fear we have a permanent possum problem even tho we live in a fairly densely populated suburban neighborhood.

62 posted on 08/09/2003 9:00:41 AM PDT by bert (Don't Panic!)
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To: Imagine
Actually, my son had this problem (we live in the sticks) and the possum would come onto his porch. They will eat cat food, dog food, whatever, so one night he just waited for him, and shot him. End of problem. Just put out a little bait, and wait.
63 posted on 08/09/2003 9:00:53 AM PDT by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
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To: AntiGuv
Raise his rent.
64 posted on 08/09/2003 9:02:35 AM PDT by Agnes Heep
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To: Overtaxed
I've read a few letters to the editor from those in Chapel Hill- talk about stinking, phe-e-e-w.
65 posted on 08/09/2003 9:03:05 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (It is just plain just that we remove unjust Justices-the survival of America depends on it.)
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To: thinktwice
I released one once in an open field and crows swoooped in to attack that defenseless creature.

O, the horror of it. Don't look now but the vicious and cruel carnage ogoing across the great green lap of Gaia as predators feast on the living flesh of the preyed-upon is of such an enormity as to begger the imagination of the most ardent Stephen King fan.

You better run out there and stop it--now. But don't use force. That would merely be surrending to predators' way of solving problems. No, you must reason with them. Shame them as a last resort if you must, but don't harm their self-esteem.

66 posted on 08/09/2003 9:03:47 AM PDT by Kevin Curry (Put Justice Janice Rogers Brown on the Supreme Court--NOW)
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To: bert
If there is a brother-in-law problem, many hardware stores stock live traps.

What will they come up with next? Where do you release him? San Francisco? ;o)

67 posted on 08/09/2003 9:04:32 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: F.J. Mitchell
I've read a few letters to the editor from those in Chapel Hill- talk about stinking, phe-e-e-w.

I avoid reading those....bad for my stress level.

68 posted on 08/09/2003 9:05:33 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: Imagine
Possum killer of last resort:


69 posted on 08/09/2003 9:07:08 AM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: Overtaxed
How many rednecks does it take eat a 'possum? Two. One to eat, and one to watch for cars.
70 posted on 08/09/2003 9:07:33 AM PDT by jjbrouwer (Whaddyou talkin' about, Terminator?)
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To: Imagine
Throw a few chunks of Ex-Lax under the porch.
I gets 'em pretty fast and dehydrates the carcass so it don't 'stank' too bad.
71 posted on 08/09/2003 9:09:52 AM PDT by MamaTexan (The Democratic Party!! ... for people who are afraid of the truth :))
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To: Imagine
Your Answer awaits you
72 posted on 08/09/2003 9:11:33 AM PDT by cmsgop (If you Spinkle When You Tinkle,...Be a Sweetie and Wipe the Seatie......)
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To: BunnySlippers
" Call the PETA rep"
That one is kind of scary to me
they might file a lawsuit and give your home to the possum.
you might end up living under the porch.
that is if they dont just take you out and shoot ya.
73 posted on 08/09/2003 9:14:03 AM PDT by Cheapskate (you owe it to the people, we're so happy we can hardly count!)
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To: Constitution Day
sounds like my mom, she beat a chicken hawk to death with a broom! said those chickens cost 50cents apiece and were thier wieght in the eggs she was goin to sell.
74 posted on 08/09/2003 9:15:38 AM PDT by suzyq5558 (God bless America ,land that i love.)
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To: Imagine

http://www.cityofstamford.org/AnimalControl/Links.htm

75 posted on 08/09/2003 9:16:14 AM PDT by easonc52
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To: Imagine
All you need are three adult dachshunds. They will instinctively corner and hound the thing out of any space. One will face it; the other two will bite at its flanks. The possum will leave. Trust me.
76 posted on 08/09/2003 9:16:30 AM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: Imagine
bttt
77 posted on 08/09/2003 9:16:47 AM PDT by firewalk
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To: OldPossum
Find a redneck with too many hounds under his porch. Tell him he can eat it if he can catch it.
78 posted on 08/09/2003 9:20:37 AM PDT by billhilly (No monument has been erected to a cynic)
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To: Overtaxed
Your poem makes me want to, well, cry - so very beautiful. Haven't we all been there?

Hey, HEY - I think there's a Poet Laureate position open in my state of New Jersey. I can check it out for you if you want.

79 posted on 08/09/2003 9:23:23 AM PDT by searchandrecovery (America will not exist in 25 years.)
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To: cmsgop
Hey man, my wife got me back for leaving the PBJ dance on her voice mail.

She apparently found the "macarena" song online and left it for me at work.

80 posted on 08/09/2003 9:23:30 AM PDT by Constitution Day (see you on the 18th!)
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