Urban Possum Varmit...Freeper needs advice on how to get rid of possum living under porch.

8/9/03 | self

[Imagine]

I've got a possum living under my porch diggin up stuff during the night. Any suggestions on capturing or killing the critter???

[oceanperch]

everytime armidillos comes up I think of you.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Leave the poor little guy along. They don't hurt anything unless you've got chickens in the yard, then that becomes the chickens problem. Possums love chickens.

[wardaddy]

Pardon me. He's still alive. I could have simply shot him or poisoned him with coolant.

[oceanperch]

Hopefully there is not a whole family squating under their.

[Kevin Curry]

All you need are three adult dachshunds. They will instinctively corner and hound the thing out of any space. One will face it; the other two will bite at its flanks. The possum will leave. Trust me

Yeah, but then you have three dachshunds to get rid of.

[wardaddy]

A possum slaver turns lawyer...figures;>)

[sandydipper]

You start off by boiling up a mess of sweet patatos and then you get the possum outa his hide and then --

Just kidding - plez don't eat Pogo.

[oceanperch]

SF good idea. Possoms are as overpopulated as rats.

[KC_for_Freedom]

I trapped one in my attic with this trap using chinese food as bait. I took him to Hillsboro, (an uptown location) and he liked the new location so much better than mine that he did not come back.

I called animal control but the lady who came out did not know anything and nearly fell through my ceiling. Don't call them.

Had a racoon too, he stepped into some wet tar (roof patch) and we never saw him again. (When he licked the tar off, it likely killed him.)

[jjbrouwer]

The RNADFAL (redneck anti de fame ation league)will get you for that.

You may be right. I'm not too worried though, as it was an elderly redneck who actually told me the joke. He sadly passed away some time ago and left his entire estate in trust for his beloved widow - unfortunately, she can't touch it till she's fourteen...

Meanwhile...What's the most popular pick up line in Tennessee ? "Nice tooth..."

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Why is that?

[Chad Fairbanks]

And I am honored that you do ;0)

[afraidfortherepublic]

I also caught two young coons earlier in the week...

You must trap and shoot them in the trap until they are all gone, and that'll take care of the problem for the season. If you release them, they'll just be back. You can tell when you have exhausted the colony by the ground around the trap. (Be sure to stake the trap down so it won't move.) When there is no more scratching in the dirt around the trap, you've got the whole colony. Their friends come around after one of them is caught and scratch trying to release him.

Make sure your trap is big enough. A friend claimed this wouldn't work. He had a medium sized trap. We took ours over there and caught is coon -- a fellow so large that he was able to reach in my neighbor's trap and eat the food, but the door wouldn't close because the coon's back end was sticking out. My neighbor was just providing midnight snacks for his unwelcome visitor until we loaned him our giant model.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

We lived in a Fort Lauderdale subdivision immediately west of US 1, just north of Sunrise Blvd and the area known as Victoria Park and south of Oakland Park Blvd. In our immediate neighborhood we had a family of possums, several raccoons (big fat ones), a red fox, one of those big ugly green lizards people make pets out of, oh yes, an Iguana. We had field mice, like Mickey, the ones with the big ears. An American Pit female, two female mentally disturbed (from abuse suffered before we acquired them)cats, affectionately referred to as "the girls". One of the raccoons moved into the attic, really just a crawl space. It pulled the facia board away from the wall and crawled inside. He made one heck of a racket nesting up there. We located his entrance and when he left for his midnight pleasures we boarded up the hole. No more problems.

[spodefly]

Here is the formula for getting rid of possums:

[yianni]

Bump for Didelphys virginiana.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

You are so bad! LOL!

How does a redneck propose?

"Well, since yore trailer's paid fer, and mine ain't ....."

[Squantos]

LOL......knife fighting a racoon ! Kewl ! Before ya spend money on a airgun (unless it's on the gun of the month list) try some of the Agulair (sp?) mexican .22 ammo. Really light CB style stuff from a rifle is actually quieter than my blue streak sheridan air rifle.

Have fun old buddy !.........Stay Safe !

(knife fighting with a racoon..............rotflmao !!!)

[afraidfortherepublic]

I figure if one of them has to walk around with a 22 pellet in his ass that they may choose another home with a less secure perimeter.

Trap him in a live trap and shoot him with the 22 while he is still confined. Works every time.

They're quite dangerous. My husband likens to small bears.

[Fraulein]

My point was only that the coon could have remained alive with his leg. It seems pointless and unnecessary that he had to lose it.

Sometimes they'll even get an infection and end up dying anyway.