re: Dog mauled a possum

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F'ing nightmare, i don't want to be that neighbor, with the barking dog, so i make sure late at night, she goes out and pees and back in. f'in possums keep coming back.

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Well, you're gonna have to kill either the dog or the possums.

Pick one.

I have a hybrid wolf and he kills them all the time with the swiftness. Normally a few bites once he gets a hold of them.

Holy shite are you John Snow?! How are the white walkers doing?! Hybrid wolf man. I bet that dog is great at basketball. Combination of air bud and teen wolf.

I mean, I knew you were a pussy, but when did you become SUCH a pussy.

I would let him try to survive

That’s just me though

I’ve seen animals pull through some stuff

That’s a shame I love possums

I have two that visit every night, one climbs my fence and walks all along it. It’s wild.

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I have two that visit every night, one climbs my fence and walks all along it. It’s wild.

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They run my 6 ft privacy fence like a balance beam while my dog is chasing and jumping at them the whole time. It's pretty amazing.

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Messed it up really bad, but didn’t kill it.

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Sounds like the Holocaust

1. Natural immunity. Opossums are mostly immune to rabies, and in fact, they are eight times less likely to carry rabies compared to wild dogs.

2. Poison control. Opossums have superpowers against snakes. They have partial or total immunity to the venom produced by rattlesnakes, cottonmouths and other pit vipers.

3. Omnivores galore. Their normal diet consists of carrion, rodents, insects, snails, slugs, birds, eggs, frogs, plants, fruits and grains. They also eat human food, table scraps, dog food and cat food. They have an unusually high need for calcium, which incites them to eat the skeletons of rodents and road kill they consume. They're the sanitation workers of the wild.

4. Smart critters. Although many people think opossums are not the sharpest knives in the drawer, there are several areas of intelligence in which they soar. For one, they have a remarkable ability to find food and to remember where it is. When tested for the ability to remember where food is, opossums scored better than rats, rabbits, cats, dogs … but not as well as humans. They also can find their way through a maze more quickly than rats and cats.

5. Pest control. Since their diet allows them to indulge on snails, slugs and beetles, they are a welcome addition to the garden. Opossums also keep rats and cockroaches at bay by competing with them for food. In fact, it’s common for opossums to kill cockroaches and rats if they find them in their territory.

6. All thumbs. The opossum has opposable "thumbs." The opossum's "thumbs" (called halux) are on its rear feet (so, technically they're toes), and abet the opossum’s formidable climbing skills. Primates and opossums are the only mammals with opposable first toes.

7. Impressive tails. They have prehensile tails which are adapted for grasping and wrapping around things like tree limbs. The opossum can hang from its tail for short periods of time, but the creature doesn’t sleep hanging from its tail, as some people think. Opossums have been observed carrying bundles of grasses and other materials by looping their tail around them; this conscious control leads many to consider the tail as a fifth appendage, like a hand.

8. Good pupils. The eyes of the opossum appear black, but what we are seeing are strongly dilated pupil; there is iris around them, it’s just mostly out of sight. The giant pupils are thought to be an adaptation to their nocturnal habits.

9. Smile! The mouth of an opossum holds an impressive 50 teeth.

10. Natural defenses. When threatened, opossums run, growl, belch, urinate and defecate. And when all else fails, they “play ‘possum" and act as if they are dead. It is an involuntary response (like fainting) rather than a conscious act. They roll over, become stiff, close their eyes (or stare off into space) and bare their teeth as saliva foams around the mouth and a foul-smelling fluid is secreted from glands. The catatonic state can last for up to four hours, and has proven effective as a deterrent to predators looking for a hot meal.

https://blog.nwf.org/2017/06/opossums-unsung-heroes-in-the-fight-against-ticks-and-lyme-disease/

good for both humans and your pets

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So these opossums are walking around the forest floor, hoovering up ticks right and left, killing over 90% of these things, and so they are really protecting our health

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Adult opossums are solitary and nocturnal—active at night—and generally live in burrows and cavities that they find ready-made rather than create themselves. They seek shelter underground, in trees or anywhere in between.

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They pretty much try to keep to themselves..

Here are a couple of pictures of a possum that walks my entire fence every night and just sits there for hours.

The ole lady and myself own 5 Rotties. Had 2 cats, but one died. My step daughter brought her momma a little kitten that was no bigger than a pack of smokes. It was to replace the one that died. We had the kitten for a couple of months. The one day none of the 4 people that live in this house were home... Heidi, one of the younger females (fatty 110lb) got out of her crate.

Mauled wasn't even the word for that happened to the kitten. It was mutilated. The wife came home to it in the living room floor. I'm talking, eyes popped out and legs all broke to hell.

Needless to say. No more kittens in my house.