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To: Hojczyk

I give bread to a little possum (when I have it) - there have been about 3 but the other two seem to be gone.

No joke, the little guy came to the back door about 5-6 weeks ago. All I had was Ritz crackers. Probably risky but I handed it down to him and he took it as gently as a puppy (I was out of bread that night; like right now).

Whatever he doesn’t take, the raccoons will. Had 5 on the deck about 6-8 months ago. It was a raccoon party. Err, food event.


6 posted on 02/12/2023 5:29:56 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris; bigbob; digger48; TribalPrincess2U
Possums are tick vacuum cleaners, like chickens & guinea hens and the like.

You want them around.

15 posted on 02/12/2023 6:31:36 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: SaveFerris
One evening I spread some dry cat food on the large upstairs deck of my home in the wilderness. In no time, I counted more than 30 raccoons and one possum feasting on the cat food.

I repeated this a night or two later but decided that it was not a good idea and never did it again.

18 posted on 02/12/2023 7:28:50 PM PST by Savage Beast (If America is drawn into another war...it will be because of...human ostriches ~Espionage Agent 1939)
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To: SaveFerris

watch out for raccoons- them things are very unpredictable- they will act all friendly like- then for no reason chomp a finger off-


24 posted on 02/12/2023 8:23:34 PM PST by Bob434
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