Posted on 08/07/2016 10:33:41 AM PDT by papineau
I've got an opossum who's hanging out in my ducts and walls. I was thinking of getting a trap and catching him (or her, I don't want little possums to raise!) and letting him out in a field far away from me.
Anyone have any experience with possums in the house?
Marsupial - ugly enough to possibly be related to Clintons.
4 different shoes? What? I need esplain pleese.
Find where they come and go from
Get a Duke #1 or equivalent
Put trap right where they come and go from as near to the entrance to the wall as possible
Bait with peanut butter and bacon wrapped on the trigger plate
Tie off or chain to something or nail it
You’ll get one of them and it’ll drive them off
You’ll find a pawless critter or a dead one if you got the head
Handle with a stick or grabber and dispose in case of hydrophobia
However remote the chance
This is how I’ve done it with coons and possums and even squirrel
I had a three legged coon on my property for years but they stayed out of my horse food and chimney crawl space after that
That’s funny
Possum is not great meat
Groundhog and marmot on the other hand taste great
Like elk meets roast beef
Another game I pass on is squirrel plus way to much trouble
Seriously though, if you live in a city call animal control and see if they will come and trap it for you.
If not, either call an exterminator to trap and remove it or get a catch them alive cage trap from Home Depot or Tractor Supply. Make sure the trap is large enough for an opossum. They also sell small traps for rats and other varments.
Whatever you do don’t put out rat poison or you may have a rotting carcass in your wall stinking up your house for a couple of weeks.
“Get a licensed removal agent. If that thing is rabid you want no part of it.”
I agree. Even if not rabid, any frightened animal may bite.
It might have actually had babies, so you want them all out. A professional is best. Call your county Ag office.
You might try pounding on the wall or blasting loud music to drive it out, then seal whatever ingress got it in there so it can’t get back in.
Whatever you do, don’t try to fumigate it out.
If it—and possibly babies—dies in your wall-—yech!
If you do trap it, let it loose several miles from your house.
.their body temps are too low for the virus to survive......You mean after you shoot the rat-tailed varmints?
They like cat food as bait. The smellier the better.
I am quite fond of possums and raccoons. Cute little guys.
Ha, when I first glanced at this I saw "GARAND".
One of them would probably do the trick.
I'll go with the trap, I think that'll work.
So I poured some hot water through the cracks onto his head, that didn't bother him enough to leave. So I got my air horn out. (This is all happening around 5 AM)
I didn't hear him for a while and assumed he'd left, then I heard this minor clicking noise every now and then. I pinpointed exactly where he was and gave one short blast with the air horn no more than one foot away from him (deck boards in between).
I haven't seen or heard from him since.
“Possums in the Walls” — wasn’t that Bobbie Gentry’s smash hit around ‘67?
I’m always learning new stuff here. I was bit by one a few years ago...and went through an entire routine of killing it and having animal control pick it up and take to the local university for rabies testing. Nobody in the process ever told me it was darned near impossible for an opposum to be rabid - which would have caused me alot less worry while waiting for the test.
Ever see an Opossum’s feet?
LOL
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