...but they're so cute

[jmc]

any 'nocturnal' predator will also attack by day..............maybe not as readily, but it definitely happens. good to lockk birds safely in at night. but if you can give the erstwhile DAYTIME predator a free meal in a trap on the other side of pen/pasture fence (it's last meal), i say we're better off.

 

[chocolate m'scovy]

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This is an acceptable form of cuteness.

 

[suburbanhomesteader]

OK, now I have to share my possum/rat story.

Was coming home one night and I have a bird bath not too far from the back door. In the moonlight, I saw some movement there and hit my keychain mounted flashlight. My first thought was, "oh, a baby possum" but then I realized that was no possum, that was one gynormous freakin' rat!!!

Holy mother of all rodents! It just sat there on the edge of the birdbath looking at me, daring me to come near. Well, the image of the "vicious bunny" from the Holy Grail movie came to mind, as did the cat attack I lived through, and I chickened out (no pun intended). Set numerous traps (both old-fashioned and electronic rat traps and live traps too) but never caught rat one.

I still wonder if it's lurking out there in the darkness....

 

[PunkinPeep]

cute?

Possum's remind me of R.O.U.S.'s from The Princess Bride, only they smell even worse (like i know how ROUS's smell).

Not cute!

 

[BorderKelpie]

I like 'possums. I think they're cute in their own ratty way - but then, I like domestic rats, too.

 

[Lbrad7]

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I agree with you!!! All I see when I look at them is a big ugly rat with a pouch in its belly. When they are small like that you can stomp them. Its quick and painless. You will feel a shiver go up your spine in a grossed out kind of feeling but you are doing it for the safety of your birds.

 

[darkmatter]

Cute? Not so much when they get older and raid your pen.