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Opossums protected by state law
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^
| Thursday, May 15, 2003
| Michael A. Fuoco
Posted on 05/15/2003 11:16:22 AM PDT by Willie Green
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:35:09 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Personnel at a Westmoreland County wildlife rehabilitation center plan to report to state game officials that an Arnold man beat an opossum to death with a shovel when it wandered into his yard on Mother's Day.
Mel Schake, information and education supervisor for the Pennsylvania Game Commission's 10-county Southwest Region, said he hadn't yet heard about the Arnold incident but, speaking generally, said people need to realize that wildlife are protected by law.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: critters; wildlife
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To: TEXASPROUD
Sounds like it would make good sausage.
Most of the possum I've seen was already ground-up anyway!
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posted on
05/15/2003 12:43:13 PM PDT
by
Willie Green
(Go Pat Go!!!)
To: HairOfTheDog
I don't find the two statements inconsistent. But then, the first statement seems to strike you as violent, which strikes me as extremely silly. As I said, they're varmints. It's not like they're songbirds or endangered species or something. Huge difference, at least to me.
To: Calpernia
If my dog succeeds in getting one (real well meaning and loving but DUMB dog), I will keep that playing dead stunt in mind before intervening. Well, just don't assume it is too late to be saved like I did! I debated putting in my garbage, in my burn barrel... couldn't think how to dispose of it, not realizing it was really quite alive.
To: Stay the course
My ex had a garden. Home early one day, saw this white thing scramble from under a low deck. Okay, wife's been complaining about plants being eaten...must be the woodchuck.
I bought a havahart and finally trapped that white thing.
Told the wife I took care of it, but it was really rat looking..."That was a opossum!". "Oh" says I. "But it came
out from under the deck..."
For those that need to know: Broccoli for woodchucks. Peanut butter for squirrels, cats, skunks, and um, opossums.
To: HairOfTheDog
"It played dead, mouth open tongue hanging out and completely limp..."
If I didn't know better, I'd swear you were describing my ex-wife.
To: MineralMan
Wish we had armadillos in California. I've never seen a live one in the wild. Armadillos are one of God's stranger looking creatures. I once had a small one in the back yard I looked after since he/she appeared to be an orphan. It rooted around in the grass somewhat like a pig (that's what its nose looks like). Anyway, after several weeks it moved on. In states where they live, you see almost as many dead on the highway as possums.
To: TEXASPROUD
Never had possum. I have no desire to eat one either. I have had bear, deer, I think every fowl, fish including shark, and of course, the standard bovine. I won't touch veal. I am looking forward to eating ostrich this summer. But, the thought of possum just doesn't do it for me.
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posted on
05/15/2003 12:49:55 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(www.HelpFeedaChild.com)
To: Willie Green
Somebody killed Pogo? - say it ain't so!
To: MineralMan
They don't attack dogs and cats. They'll eat kittens.
69
posted on
05/15/2003 12:54:31 PM PDT
by
Roscoe
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To: HairOfTheDog
"It played dead, mouth open tongue hanging out and completely limp..."
If I didn't know better, I'd swear you were describing my ex-wife.
To: sandydipper
Howcome I never realized that Pogo was a possum until now?
Doh!
Thank-you! It's always nice to have the gaps filled in my understanding of the world around me.
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posted on
05/15/2003 12:58:02 PM PDT
by
Willie Green
(Go Pat Go!!!)
To: daylate-dollarshort
LOL!
To: Willie Green
Have you ever tried to shoot one of these things? It takes two or three shots from a 22 to kill one.
74
posted on
05/15/2003 12:59:36 PM PDT
by
The South Texan
(The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCCNN NYLA TIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
To: MineralMan
Hate to tell you this but I've lived in Texas for 17 years and I've never seen a live armadillo. Don't think there are any except for the dead one they keep moving ahead of me on the road. Eeeeeeeeeek!
To: Stay the course
"Vermin is right. Possums, coons, skunks, they're all disease-ridden, thieving pains in the ass."I was walking in the woods of southern Indiana when I was a teenager and came across a dead feral hog or wild boar. I didn't get too close because it was very pungent and I noticed the body cavity seemed to be moving. I thought it was maggot infestation. Wrong! I shot the carcass with my .410 shotgun I had with me and about a dozen possums ran out from the rectal area of the carcass.
I later learned from my Grandfather that the avenue of choice into a carcass for a possum is via the rectum. They eat their way into the good stuff.
To: Willie Green
Here in Alabama we have possums and the ever popular, "Ninja Possums" aka Armadillos. Speed bumps mostly.
77
posted on
05/15/2003 1:04:17 PM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Will Rogers never met me.)
To: MineralMan
My dogs killed an armadillo last night and left it by my truck as a present this morning. I won't touch the damned thing; they are some of the nastiest critters going.
78
posted on
05/15/2003 1:05:04 PM PDT
by
Junior
(Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.)
To: Conservababe
He had to sit on the side of the road two hours before a State Trooper pulled up to help. He hates 'em.
It wasn't the State Troopers fault.
To: sandydipper
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posted on
05/15/2003 1:06:17 PM PDT
by
evets
(We have met the enemy, and he is us.)
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