Two of these little buggers have been living under my shed, driving my dog crazy. I have been fearing Zoey, my dog, cornering one and getting in a fight, so I have been trying to relocate them. To those that don't know, this trap doesn't harm the trapped animal at all, they just go in and the door shuts on them. So this little guy has been relocated in a more possum friendly area with lots of trees and shelter. Hopefully the second one will follow suit.
My Nemesis
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mark james
IAP Collection, Curator
I took 8 Raccoons out of my property last year with those traps. Little ones are cute... Big ones are nasty!
This guy was really pretty mellow, no hissing or jumping around. When I opened the trap, he just waddled towards the woods.
egnald
Member
Wow. I've never met a mellow 'possum before (that was alive that is). A few years ago I saw a dead one along the road not far from our house. Later that day I grabbed a shovel to go out to take care of it and my two boys were all concerned and kept warning me to be careful because opossums play dead. It always makes me smile when I think about it. - Dave
Stuart Robertson
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We have the brush tailed possum introduced here from Australia.
Although it has provided a fur industry of sorts it has been immensely destructive to avian wildlife and many plant species.
In my locality an eradication program has been ongoing in recent years and in excess of 20,000 have been killed from an area of around 20,000 acres.Most of this area is pasture and the possums are primarily tree dwelling.
JohnU
Member
Be happy it wasn't a skunk. I've had my share of them and raccoons around the house. It's fine as long as they keep their distance, until they find the garbage cans.
rherrell
Member
Before I knew they could just climb right over a chain link fence I just walked over to a small one and set him outside the fence, he just played dead in my hands.
Bryguy
Member
Let them hang out. THey are great for getting rid of ticks!
If it wa
If it wasn't for the dog , I would agree.
Todd in PA
Member
I once had a possum in my back yard when I lived downtown. The yard was fenced and I let my dogs out. They dispatched him and Jasmine was proudly showing off the kill tossing it around. I managed to get the dogs back inside and grabbed a trash bag to put the carcass in. Damn if that thing didn't up and walk away. Guess they do play possum. 
Woodchipper
Member
A friend was plagued by skunks in an outbuilding. I told him to quickly and carefully toss a handful of mothballs into the building. No more skunks.
I put mothballs under there yesterday too, I read possums hate the smell of them and will leave on their own.
TellicoTurning
Member
Back in the late 90s, we lived in a house in a subdivision on the north side of Lake Houston... Lots of woods on one side of the lot... we had trouble keeping the raccoons out of the garbage cans, so I built a cage around the cans with 2x4's and chicken wire... they figured out how to open the latch. One day Ed my stepson was smoking out by the garage and field stripped his cigarette and went to toss it in the garbage can... heard him yell, "Damn that's the largest rate I ever saw" we had a possum in the garbage can, still alive, but trapped. I left him there and put the can out for garbage pick up.... there must have been some surprised garbage men when they dumped that can.
Don't know how he got in the can... the lid was on and the gate latched... suspect a gang of raccoons in a gang war, put him there.
Don't know how he got in the can... the lid was on and the gate latched... suspect a gang of raccoons in a gang war, put him there.
KMCloonan
Member
we used a similar trap (Havahart) to catch a racoon that was causing trouble. I remember setting the trap with peanut butter. It was summertime. Sometime in the middle of the night, we heard this godawful screeching and yowling out back of the house. I got a flashlight and went to see what was going on. Well, it turns out the trap we used was a smaller trap, but a gigantic racoon somehow wedged himself inside the trap, and was very upset. I remember, he was so large, and the trap was so small that his fur was sticking out of the trap on all sides.
We called an animal warden who took the animal away to someplace away from us.
We called an animal warden who took the animal away to someplace away from us.
sbwertz
Member
When I was a teen, we were unfortunate enough to have a Doberman pinscher whose main goal in life was to eradicate the local skunk population....and proudly bring them home and present them to me! Except for the one she killed under a neighbor's house. She left that one. My dad had to crawl under and get it out before the neighbors came back from vacation! Decomposing dead skunk is REALLY smelly. We bought tomato juice by the case....