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re: Anyone Ever Had A Dog That Got Bit By A Opossum?

Posted on 6/29/19 at 12:08 pm to
Posted by LSU fan 246
Member since Oct 2005
90567 posts
Posted on 6/29/19 at 12:08 pm to
Yea because you were letting your poodle attack it
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122525 posts
Posted on 6/29/19 at 12:10 pm to
My two dogs.

Can you please point out which one is a poodle because evidently I don't know anything about my dogs.

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Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
24634 posts
Posted on 6/29/19 at 12:11 pm to
Coons are also pretty destructive. I put down some sod last year and coons just came out at night rolled the sod back and grabbed the grubs. They are pretty clever and they can tear up a flower bed. I just leave coons alone cause they don't dig deep holes. Last night my Arlo cameras picked up a coon walking toward the trap. Five minutes later the video showed trap closed and shaking. It was an armadillo. The coon and dillo must have passed each other face to face.
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
148031 posts
Posted on 6/29/19 at 12:13 pm to
You got a problem with Poodles?
Posted by crispyUGA
Upstate SC
Member since Feb 2011
16272 posts
Posted on 6/29/19 at 12:15 pm to
Possums are great animals to have around. They eat a shite-ton of ticks and cockroaches and it’s extremely rare for them to carry rabies due to their low body temps. They also very non-aggressive. My beagle trees them pretty often, so I just bring him back inside and close the doggy door. Possums are great.
Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
24634 posts
Posted on 6/29/19 at 12:20 pm to
Yeah, last year I'd go outside at night with the trusty 12 gauge to wreak havoc on the armadillos. More the once I saw opossums and I just let them go.

This year I'm going to live release all the armadillos. And these are just the armadillos that come into my yard and tear my stuff up. I obviously live in the country.
Posted by LSU fan 246
Member since Oct 2005
90567 posts
Posted on 6/29/19 at 12:52 pm to
And if I do??
Posted by The Torch
DFW The Dub
Member since Aug 2014
30412 posts
Posted on 6/29/19 at 2:35 pm to
Frick yes, my uncle had a blue tick coon dog when we were young. He would fight anything, killed 1000's of coons and several opossums and they all bit back until he crushed their neck.

Frick an Opossum

Posted by dawgsjw
Member since Dec 2012
2114 posts
Posted on 6/29/19 at 2:40 pm to
Why you going to shoot the opossum? They are a big eater of ticks and don't carry rabies. Why do white people got to kill off every animal they encounter?
Posted by Kcrad
Diamondhead
Member since Nov 2010
68344 posts
Posted on 6/29/19 at 3:28 pm to
What does the color of someone's skin have to do with this?

Oh, dawgsjw, typical race baiting, sjw bullshite.
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
26227 posts
Posted on 6/29/19 at 3:32 pm to
My Aussie Shepherd fights possums all the time. They bare their teeth and hiss, but she's never been bitten and they act as if they don't want to bite.

She circles around while the possum hisses, then strikes at it like she does when she whacks a copperhead (her favorite past time). Then, she chomps it until it plays possum. She loses interest, she comes back inside the house, and ten minutes later the possum is gone.

ETA: This one possum must have loved cat food, because he would come up, eat some cat food, get his arse whipped by my Aussie, then leave to come back the next night.
This post was edited on 6/29/19 at 3:35 pm
Posted by MLCLyons
Member since Nov 2012
4790 posts
Posted on 6/29/19 at 3:39 pm to
Opossum's have a very low body temperature (I think like 94 degrees) which makes it very very hard for them to contract rabies. It's not impossible, but it's likely it's fine.
Posted by MLCLyons
Member since Nov 2012
4790 posts
Posted on 6/29/19 at 3:40 pm to
quote:

opossums don't get or carry rabies


they can, it's just extremely rare for them to get it.
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