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DID YOU KNOW THAT OPOSSUMS EAT VIRTUALLY ALL THE TICKS IN YOUR YARD?
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| February 3, 2020
| Craig Raleigh
Posted on 06/18/2020 3:47:56 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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Here is a feel good story. Say hi to your friendly neighborhood opossum.
To: CheshireTheCat
There's ticks in my yard?😷😵📴
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posted on
06/18/2020 3:51:55 PM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: CheshireTheCat
Can we let a few hundred roam in D.C. to deal with the bloodsuckers there?
To: CheshireTheCat
I've got possums who come up at night to eat the leftover cat food on my patio (along with a family of raccoons and a couple of gray fox pups). I've never seen them (the possums) nibbling their way around my yard but perhaps they do their work at night when I'm asleep.
Come to think of it, I haven't seen a tick in years.
To: CheshireTheCat
I guess it is a possumability.
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posted on
06/18/2020 3:55:34 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: CheshireTheCat
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posted on
06/18/2020 3:56:20 PM PDT
by
2banana
(Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
To: CheshireTheCat
May be, but they dig up chunks of lawn to look for worms.
After opossum attack, my yard looked like a tractor had ploughed through. I bought a trap and caught the suckers!
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posted on
06/18/2020 3:56:35 PM PDT
by
entropy12
(covid-19 separates the fearful from the freedom loving! If I am not afraid, no one should be.)
To: CheshireTheCat
Yup, they are good if weird little animals to have in the back yard :)
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posted on
06/18/2020 3:57:39 PM PDT
by
BlackAdderess
(The constant with idealists is that no matter how often they fail ‘it will be different this time’)
To: rktman
There's ticks in my yard?
There ain't no ticks on me..
There ain't no ticks on me....
There might be ticks on some of those chicks but there ain't no ticks on me.......
To: CheshireTheCat
It’s true. I knew a well-educated creature of this sort, though we could only converse in Latin.
I asked him which creature is most efficient at killing ticks?
He stated, quite confidently, “Possum.”
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posted on
06/18/2020 4:00:07 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
To: CheshireTheCat
They have their own lake down in Texas.....Possum Kingdom Lake is just NW of Ft. Worth.
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posted on
06/18/2020 4:00:59 PM PDT
by
Ben Hecks
(Don't Google it - Duck it!)
To: CheshireTheCat
Once saw a baby opossum in a field, probably an orphan. The little punk was not even five inches long and he was baring his teeth and hissing at me. One swift stomp and I could have killed the little bastard but I didn't.
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posted on
06/18/2020 4:04:04 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: CheshireTheCat
They’re great critters to have around if you have a garden.
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posted on
06/18/2020 4:05:27 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
To: BlackAdderess
Had a pet possum a long time ago. Amusing creatures.
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posted on
06/18/2020 4:05:43 PM PDT
by
gundog
( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
To: CheshireTheCat
There are no ticks in my yard and I do get the occasional Possum. Maybe I should thank them.
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posted on
06/18/2020 4:06:02 PM PDT
by
yarddog
( For I am persuaded.)
To: Ben Hecks
Cool song by The Toadies, “Possum Kingdom.”
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posted on
06/18/2020 4:07:06 PM PDT
by
Trailerpark Badass
(There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
To: RoosterRedux
I have the same cat food eating possum. When my dog barks the possum runs.. kinda. He hides in a shrub but doesn’t seem to realize his tail is sticking out.
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posted on
06/18/2020 4:07:24 PM PDT
by
pnut22
To: CheshireTheCat
When I was growing up, it was said that dragonflies would eat mosquitoes. So we used to catch them with butterfly nets and put them in our bedrooms.
To: Fungi
Yeah, me and a friend trapped a possum once in a Hav-a-heart trap. That thing about them “playing possum?” BS.
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posted on
06/18/2020 4:09:17 PM PDT
by
Trailerpark Badass
(There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
To: Fungi
I was driving home one day in a pretty good rain storm. I got off one highway to get onto another and this exit was a pretty long overpass. As I was reaching the top of the overpass, there on top of the concrete railing was a large, rain soaked possum peering down over the edge of the railing. It looked like it was thinking about jumping, and their eyesight is so poor, there’s no way he could see the highway some 30 feet below. I’ve always remembered that strange sight and wondered if he did jump.
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