Possums are food
I ran over a Possum once. Turned it into road pizza.
Take away people’s 2nd amendment rights and you can’t even fend off wildlife.
But what of Little, Mary and her opossum that sleeps in a box?
I soon got tired of playing games with it, and shot
the thing dead with a Ruger 10/22 rifle. It has
ceased to cause me any further annoyance.
This is why so many New Zealanders willfully accepted lockdowns.
I caught on a long while back that “wildlife” was a term invented by wildlife so that they’d have a ready excuse for their shenanigans.
Lol. woke crybaby...
Communist Jacinda Ardern is who is holding NZ hostage.
But hey, that’s what they wanted.
New Zealand Opossums are much more attractive and cuddly looking than north American Opossums. I’ve got one that traverses my back yard and its big and ugly. I see it in the early hours of the am and I live in the city, there’s a creek nearby. It roams the neighborhood in the wee hours. I’m thinking it feeds on uneaten pet food letf out on back patios. I put a couple of eggs out in the back yard one night and there were nothing but shells in the morning. Won’t do that anymore.
I think they’re relatively harmless unless they’re rabid then its shotgun time.
I received a phone call from my son when at work that there was a possum in the garage and what should he do. He was real insistent that I come home to deal with it. So, here I am 40 miles away and have to negotiate Atlanta traffic to get home. No way…. I told the 25yo son to get a broom and scoot the possum outdoors.
I got home several hours later and the possum was still in the garage. I had been getting routine updates on the possum war all afternoon.
I took up the battle with my mighty broom to no avail. The possum had shinnied up the garage door track and was holding on for dear life. Finally, I turned the broom around and started whacking at his feet to dislodge the death grip. I'd hit one foot but he would still have three more feet gripping tight. Finally, I got all four feet ouching at the same time and the possum fell to the floor. In seconds he was out the door and disappeared.
Have you ever seen a possum playing possum? Myself, my cousin and a couple of other kids were playing in a field and came across a possum. It immediately rolled over on its back, feet in the air and played dead. We'd poke the possum with a stick and it would open its eyes, bare its long claws and hiss at us then go back to playing possum. Five minutes of kid fun.
New Zealand has POSSUMS, the US has OPOSSUMS. Different animals.
In NZ they are a destructive invasive species. They look more like weasels than opossums.
