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re: Blossom the Possum in back yard. What should I do.. Eradicate, Domesticate* or Relocate?

Posted on 5/7/21 at 9:31 am to
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
38700 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 9:31 am to
possums are clean & disease-free. as long as they arent in your garbage cans leave him/her alone
Posted by Spaceman Spiff
Savannah
Member since Sep 2012
17468 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 9:36 am to
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LoneStarTiger


Digging that avi, sir
Posted by jaytothen
Member since Jan 2020
6404 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 9:36 am to
Make him an ally, then use his army of opossums to take over the neighborhood.


Or just let him be bc he isn't doing anything wrong
Posted by shawnlsu
Member since Nov 2011
23682 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 9:52 am to
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He has been punching holes in my backyard for a while now...

He is just aerating. No good deed....
Posted by LSUballs
RayVegas LA
Member since Feb 2008
37731 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 9:55 am to
quote:

possums are clean



I saw one climb out of a dead cows arse one time. He wasn’t clean. I’ll have 2-3 a year get in my dog food. No a good feeling reaching in the bag at dark, feeling for the scoop and grabbing a handful of possum lol
Posted by mtb010
San Antonio
Member since Sep 2009
4368 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 10:12 am to
Leave it alone, if will eat all of the bag bugs in your yard and won't be a nuisance.
Posted by mtb010
San Antonio
Member since Sep 2009
4368 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 10:14 am to
quote:

I saw one climb out of a dead cows arse one time


Is your name Caleb? I had a buddy of mine when i lived in Mississippi years ago see the exact same thing.
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
36791 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 10:17 am to
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possums are clean & disease-free. as long as they arent in your garbage cans leave him/her alone



False. They can transmit:
Lepto
Coccidios
EPM ( especially harmful to horses)
Salmonella

To name a few. Grease him.


Otherwise relocate him .
Posted by tenfoe
Member since Jun 2011
6845 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 10:18 am to
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I had a buddy of mine when i lived in Mississippi years ago see the exact same thing.


My name isn't Caleb, nor was I with balls when he saw it, but I've seen it also.
Posted by Ron Cheramie
The Cajun Hedgehog
Member since Aug 2016
5139 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 10:38 am to
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False. They can transmit: Lepto Coccidios EPM ( especially harmful to horses) Salmonella To name a few. Grease him.



Cats can carry lots of that too. Rabies, roundworms, and a ton of others


Grease the cats, save a robin and a wren

Feed the opossum
Posted by DomincDecoco
of no fixed abode
Member since Oct 2018
10848 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 11:00 am to
Vote to leave him, nature will take care of itself

then again Im partial to his kind...had a baby one when i was a kid

leave a sweet potato out for him one night
Posted by oleyeller
Vols, Bitch
Member since Oct 2012
32021 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 11:07 am to
Have 2 possum that come every night to eat cat food. Lil boy loves watching them. They dont carry rabies, and eat ticks and other insects. I leave them be, domt bother anything
Posted by Hurricane2020
Member since Apr 2020
2463 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 11:07 am to
My 1yo husky loves to murder every fricking animal that gets in my yard. I've already had to pry dead baby possums out of her mouth....
Posted by Potchafa
Avoyelles
Member since Jul 2016
3205 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 11:17 am to
Catch it and pet it and call it George!
That was last weekend. We were hanging out on the patio and it just rolled up right next to my wife!

Posted by thejudge
Westlake, LA
Member since Sep 2009
14048 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 11:27 am to
There were a bunch in my neighborhood.

Only one I've killed is one that was getting to close to my garbage and became really aggressive when the kids would go out to the trash.

They were little and I saw it as a threat. Trapped and shot.

The others I've left. They come and go and don't bother us.
Posted by oleyeller
Vols, Bitch
Member since Oct 2012
32021 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 11:43 am to
Cute lil mfr. My wife knows a lady who has one as pet. Keeps it in house, said just like a cat
Posted by Ron Cheramie
The Cajun Hedgehog
Member since Aug 2016
5139 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 12:28 pm to
In mammalogy class the professor would always include common names and local names of critters because that’s what people know them as and one name for an opossum was a “grinner” and I have yet to run into someone that called them that

They also have the most teeth of any land mammal in North America Csb
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
89495 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 12:30 pm to
Flag down a 100-car banana train and see if they want to buy one. If they do, THEN you kill it.
Posted by kook
Berrytown
Member since Sep 2013
1893 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 12:41 pm to
why you got a condom on ya finger?? Fixin to probe him??
Posted by DownSouthJukin
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Member since Jan 2014
27218 posts
Posted on 5/7/21 at 12:58 pm to
quote:

Eradicate, Domesticate or Relocate?


Barbecue.
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