Adventures with possums

[WVduckchick]

Great story... illustrations and all!! Thanks for the entertainment. I hope for your sake he stays gone, at least while the sniper is away!

 

[Scatterknit]

Well to update, Sniper Boy and my brother went out to set a trap for it last night and in the process, they saw it in the woods and Sniper Boy blasted it. He managed to actually HIT it, of course.

 

[123RedBeard]

Just because you can hit flying clays ... They are farther away than 15' ... At 15' there probably is not much of a spread on the shot yet ... What choke(s) were the barrels?

I agree with the shovel, wack it hard! If not hit hard enough ... It may play possum and walk away while your digging the hole ...

 

[chickengeorgeto]

OMG the first possum I caught I captured alive by using a small (6 1/2 ounce) empty Coca-Cola bottle. I hit him with it and that made him sull up, play dead, AKA "playing possum."

I was then able to pick him up by its prehensile tail and gently put him into a cotton chicken feed sack. The next morning I sold him for 50¢.

Less you think that I sold him too cheaply, 50¢ then would buy 10 bottles of Coca-Cola, Royal Crown Cola, Pepsi Cola, Neigh Highs, or else 10 Hershey candy bars. So both the possum's buyer as well as myself ate high on the hog for some time.

I could have gave my Gramps and Granny the live possum gratis, but what the hay 50¢ is 50¢

For Americans to young or maybe people from other countries, the ¢ sign denotes any decimal fraction of one Dollar from .01 to .99 cents inclusive.

 

[Scatterknit]

OMG the first possum I caught I captured alive by using a small (6 1/2 ounce) empty Coca-Cola bottle. I hit him with it and that made him sull up, play dead, AKA "playing possum."

I was then able to pick him up by its prehensile tail and gently put him into a cotton chicken feed sack. The next morning I sold him for 50¢.

Less you think that I sold him too cheaply, 50¢ then would buy 10 bottles of Coca-Cola, Royal Crown Cola, Pepsi Cola, Neigh Highs, or else 10 Hershey candy bars. So both the possum's buyer as well as myself ate high on the hog for some time.

I could have gave my Gramps and Granny the live possum gratis, but what the hay 50¢ is 50¢

For Americans to young or maybe people from other countries, the ¢ sign denotes any decimal fraction of one Dollar from .01 to .99 cents inclusive.

 

[Coralietg]

There is an opossum that keeps going in our coop at dusk, before I shut the door. They give me the creeps, like, scream like a girl scared. All it's doing is eating the chicken food at the moment.

 

[enola]

You need to set a trap and catch that bad boy. He WILL graduate to eating chicken sooner than you want him to.

 

[Coralietg]

You need to set a trap and catch that bad boy. He WILL graduate to eating chicken sooner than you want him to.

Oh my husband has caught it before in a live trap, probably 3 times! He likes them though, let the creepy little monster go. Next time it gets caught it will be gone.

 

[HotDesertChick]

Great post. Brought a smile to many, I would guess.

Describes many of our frustrations dealing with such a Simple Animal Brought back memories of dealing with retarded armadillos in coastal GA.

Yes, I think you should turn to writing, at least to pay for all of the future shotgun shells.

And, Ya...forget those Corgis for being Varmint Dawgs. I maintain total vigilance over our Pembroke, who...our enterprising coyotes look fondly at as just another Desert Treat (aka dessert).

I would use a shovel though. Works for rattlesnakes too.

 

[enola]

When my oldest daughter was about 4, she went to the chickenhouse to get me some eggs to cook with. She came running back to the house to get me because the biggest rat in the world was in the nest eatting eggs! She was highly upset! I went to the chicken house with her to see this rat. Sure enough, it was a possum, who by now decided he better be making tracks. She and I made a sign which we stuck on the chicken house door, "NO POSSUMS ALLOWED". I never told her that the possum was trapped and disposed of! She probably thought the sign was all it took to make him stay away.