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I left the door open to my shop today and I went to close tonight when I got home. To my surprise when leaving I happened upon a large possum. I hate them they give me bad dreams and they stink. Apparently he felt the same way about me. With clever use of a flash light and cocobolo spindle stock I emerged the victor untouched. So I thought... I went to get a grain scoop to remove the foul best and BAM!! ambush. Again the led flash light allowed me to gain the upper hand and remain unscathed. This time I moved him to the highway to be picked up by a stray dog. So I thought... Knock Knock Knock What is that on my front porch? One very angry possum. This time it resulted in his actual death (I hope) with my .22. I do not like to use guns in town but I felt it was necessary. Oh and somebody else had already shot the beast, twice. I do not get thrills out of killing animals, and I am not bragging. I just wanted to give what may have been the toughest animal I have ever met a proper farewell. I just want to say that I will be thinking of him all night tonight as I will most likely not get a wink of sleep out of sheer fear. So here is to the long night ahead and the hopefully dead possum in the back of my truck. He may be dead but his legacy lives on.
 
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I had to laugh. Showdown with the Possum from Hell!! I had similar problems with 'ole grandaddy Woodchuck. I fought this guy for 4 years. Hit him with rocks, winged an ear off with a .32, threw sticks, slingshot, smoke bombs in his lair, and, several M80's. you name it. He survived. I felt like I was in the middle of Caddy Shack. I never did get him. I did trap and remove, eliminate most of his offspring. That kept be very busy. I think he died of laughter.
 
Check your shop. Maybe the reason that possum was so "dead set" on getting back into your shop might be lurking in the wood pile. :biggrin::biggrin:
 
Maybe it was a Momma who just dropped a litter in your shop!!! Now you have to bottle feed the little vermin until they are healthy enough to fight you straight up!!! Come on its only fair!!!
 
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Maybe it was a Momma who just dropped a litter in your shop!!! Now you have to bottle feed the little vermin until they are healthy enough to fight you straight up!!! Come on its only fair!!!
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Now that's not funny....oh wait, yes it is. Better reload the .22
 
My wife called me one day at work (when I was gainfully employed) and said there is a dead opossum in the back yard in the trap I set. I said "Are you sure he's dead?" She said "yes!" Ok, so when I got home I peaked around the corner where he was and as I approached, I saw one eye pop open like, yeah right, your dead all right.:rolleyes: He was playing opossum! I hauled him off and let him go back in the woods.
 
I have a solutiuon for these guys.


Nikita


She's gotten a little long in the tooth now, but every so often I find a opossum right in the middle of the back yard as if to say "Y'all see this, this is what you get for coming in MY yard".


After speaking with her, her hourly rate for opossum removal is 4 treats. That's a discount for IAP members, she tells me it's usually 6.
 

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Man... some of you guys are so mean... Scots didelphinophobia is keeping him awake last night and all these stories of baby ones and more are going to keep him awake even more!

Of course, It would be kind of funny for Scot to explain why now he has a sidearm at all times at the lathe :)
 
They are an ugly, foul smelling, evil looking, obnoxious, dirty beast. And who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?
 
i once had a a runnin with an otter let me tell yah i would choose a hungry pack of angry possum to be taunted by with rather than that otter !!that rascal nearly sent me to the emergency room and yes i ended up victorious over the otter didnt want to do it but was given no choice . the otter was on a suicide mission!! lol hope you got some sleep
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When I was living in Huffman, just east of Lake Houston, our lot backed up to the woods... I had trouble with raccoons getting into my garbage, so I built a cage from 2x4 and chicken wire to keep them out... we had covered metal cans... my son was home visiting and went to drop one of his field stripped cigarettes into the garbage can... he jumped back and said "wow, that's the biggest rat I ever saw" (He's from Illinois... I don't think they had possums up there)... I don't know how he got the lid off the can, don't know how he climbed up the side of a 33 gallon metal garbage can, nor how he got the lid back on... I left him there for the garbage man... sure wish I could have been around when he dumped that can into the back of his truck...:biggrin::biggrin:
 
There are a couple of critters that consistently get underestimated, raccoons and possums top that list! Both are tough as hell and twice as mean as predators double there size but possums are also tricky little devils! They "play possum" The smell you are all complaining about is a defensive strategy, it's intended to mimic rotting flesh. Just another nuance to the "I'm dead and the last thing on earth you'd want to eat" performance they give in a escape atempt. Some reptiles do the same thing, play dead and put off a stink that would turn a spring bears stomach!


Your story reminds me of the day I found an adult bald eagle in one of my lynx snares..........the eagle was released with only a few ruffled feathers. It was a very "interesting" 45 minutes!!!!!!!!
 
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Possum Soup

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[FONT=Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times]16 oz of corn[/FONT]
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[FONT=Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times]1 pinch Celery leaves[/FONT]
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[FONT=Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times]1 pinch Parsley[/FONT]
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[FONT=Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times]1 tbsp Olive Oil[/FONT]
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[FONT=Book Antiqua, Times New Roman, Times]1 tbsp flour[/FONT]
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Skin and clean possum, then quarter the animal. Place it in a large pot or camp oven along with water and salt. Cover and simmer gently for 3 or 4 hours. (Tough little devils apparently.) Add vegetables and simmer for another 1 1/2 hours (Still tough. Even the veggies are resisting being associated with this.) Strain soup through a large holed colander when meat has left bone and remove bones, especially small ones. Return soup to the pot and add parsley and celery leaves. Thicken with mixed olive oil and flour. Cut fried bread into 1 inch squares and serve soup over toast, boiling hot.

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I hate possums. The males are big and very mean. This I am sure was a "country" possum. We are in the middle of drought and many animals are moving in to the towns, I am not sure if Cranfils Gap is a town. He had no intentions for a peaceful resolution most likely because his last encounter with a person resulted in 2 gut shots. I am going to visit my neighbor and see let him know that If he shoots an animal kill it. I do not how things work in Vermont, but here we kill humanly if possible. The possum was still in the truck this morning but I forgot a stick to flop him off with, so I waited until later. I have no desire to ever be bitten again(my first experience with a possum at about 6years old).
 
We have a home in the mountains of northern AZ and used to have number of outside cats and feed them on the back porch outside the breakfast room (sliding glass doors), one evening we heard a heck of a bunch of noise outside the door (curtains closed), I ran up to the door and jerked the curtains open to hollar at the darn cats, and came face to face with a 400# black bear with just that little thin piece of glass between him and me, and there I was! a pair of skivies, no gun and him with all those claws !!! and that little piece of glass! Well needless to say I nearly did something in my skivies and I guess it scared him too because away he went, God I don't ever want to do that again !!!!!!

I know I know he was not a possum but I sure wish he had been!
 
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I had a similar thing with my wife. I got home one evening, she was all excited about how our dogs had cornered a possum in the back yard and killed it. I took a flashlight out to look...of course...no possum!!

I asked her if she had ever heard of "playing possum"?

She had always thought that was just a saying...
 
I KNOW SCOT'S HERE SOMEWHERE............LEMME' AT HIM! ARRRGH! I GOTTA GET HIM!!!!!!

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I saw a animal cops show one time where a lady said there was a demon in her closet. It was a possum. If you thought they were ugly and smell bad this is nothing compared to the sounds they make.
 
That sounds like a tall Texas tale, Scott. Hope you were able to sleep.


When we lived in Charlotte, NC, I was going to school and working full-time and was very sleep deprived. There was a (an?) opossum that would get into our garbage cans fairly often. The cans were under our living room window in the rear of the house. One night the opossum somehow got into our bedroom and crawled up on the bed, right up on my wife's pillow. I reached over and grabbed it by the throat and was throttling it.

Then I heard a raspy voice coming from the creature, saying, "You're choking me, you're choking me!"

My wife was very nervous sleeping in the same bed with me for quite a long time after that.
 
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