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Freeper help requested - opossum in the walls
8/07/2016 | papineau

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?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: opossum; wildlife
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To: JBW1949

Marsupial - ugly enough to possibly be related to Clintons.


41 posted on 08/07/2016 11:00:04 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Historians will refer to this administration as "The Half-Black Plague.")
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To: headstamp 2

4 different shoes? What? I need esplain pleese.


42 posted on 08/07/2016 11:01:01 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: papineau

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


43 posted on 08/07/2016 11:02:22 AM PDT by wardaddy (black lives kill....and kill....and kill.....like no other race today senselessly)
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To: golux

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


44 posted on 08/07/2016 11:04:12 AM PDT by wardaddy (black lives kill....and kill....and kill.....like no other race today senselessly)
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To: papineau

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.


45 posted on 08/07/2016 11:05:29 AM PDT by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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To: StAnDeliver; papineau

“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!


46 posted on 08/07/2016 11:07:57 AM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: papineau

If you do trap it, let it loose several miles from your house.


47 posted on 08/07/2016 11:07:57 AM PDT by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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To: SgtBob

.their body temps are too low for the virus to survive......You mean after you shoot the rat-tailed varmints?


48 posted on 08/07/2016 11:08:01 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam looks perversion look genteel.)
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To: papineau

They like cat food as bait. The smellier the better.


49 posted on 08/07/2016 11:08:43 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<<a<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: papineau
I have possums that come up from the woods to eat my cats' leftover food. Mine are very healthy looking and docile.

I am quite fond of possums and raccoons. Cute little guys.

50 posted on 08/07/2016 11:08:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: mumblypeg
Is Carl Spackler available?


51 posted on 08/07/2016 11:09:04 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: papineau

Three possibilities.

http://bertc.com/subfive/recipes/possum.htm


52 posted on 08/07/2016 11:12:30 AM PDT by Rock N Jones (s)
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To: CGASMIA68
"Used this last week on a GAR thread."

Ha, when I first glanced at this I saw "GARAND".

One of them would probably do the trick.

53 posted on 08/07/2016 11:12:52 AM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: papineau
Thanks for all the help guys (and a few laughs from the usual suspects).

I'll go with the trap, I think that'll work.

54 posted on 08/07/2016 11:16:55 AM PDT by papineau (Kaiser Sose for President)
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To: wardaddy
I had a possum under my porch earlier this week. He'd been there before but I never saw him before. I stomped around trying to scare it, but that didn't 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.

55 posted on 08/07/2016 11:19:19 AM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan?
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To: papineau

“Possums in the Walls” — wasn’t that Bobbie Gentry’s smash hit around ‘67?


56 posted on 08/07/2016 11:22:01 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: wardaddy; papineau
Ask the Possum to sing louder :)
57 posted on 08/07/2016 11:22:35 AM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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To: dfwgator
LIVE ACTION!


58 posted on 08/07/2016 11:23:37 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: arthurus

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.


59 posted on 08/07/2016 11:23:58 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: right way right

Ever see an Opossum’s feet?

LOL


60 posted on 08/07/2016 11:32:08 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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