I left my dogs out last night for one last potty break before bedtime and 2 of them ran over near my old pasture and started sniffing at something laying there half on it's side. So I go over with my trusty LED mini flashlight and see a soaking wet, cute, little, furry thing laying there in the wet grass (just stopped raining) with it's back to me. What a pretty long, gray coat I'm thinking and already making mental plans about having a new pet in the household. Kitties are fun. I quietly call, "Kitty, kitty" but it won't turn around and look at me. So I call again, a little louder this time, "Here kitty, kitty. What a pretty boy you are! C'mere, I won't hurt you!" I shine the flashlight a little closer to get a better look. Slowly it turns it's head towards me......... It's a freakin' possum! Now I see that ugly, long, bare tail curled around his body....and his halfway open mouth with all the teeth in there! He's quite a distance from my chicken coop but I want him gone, gone, gone! So I ran to the barn and grabbed the first thing I saw...a pooper scooper rake! That ugly, 'ol possum got his first spanking with a rake, I bet. I spanked him all the way back into the woods. If he's smart, he won't come back either....
hehe.. I would have probably had a kitten name half picked out before it turned its ugly little head LOL.
A predator let go to return and kill another day is not a happy ending for all, just ask the chickens!
That was my first thought as well. I once had an opossum in my chicken coop. Called the "Enforcer" (aka spouse) into action. I had to lock the door to keep the excited chickens from getting out during the melee. As HE tells it, "It was me or the 'possum. She was letting only one of us out!" HE had the pitchfork; the 'possum had claws and teeth. NOT a fair fight. The opossum left the coop with three prongs running through it and was tossed behind the shed. Half an hour later the body was gone. Hum-m-m-m-m.
Years ago when I had my first flock of 20 chickens, in the morning I found a possum inside my chicken coop with all the chickens. He was sound asleep in one of their nests. I'm hoping this one's a nice relative.
My first reaction was, "Here shes 'kitty kitty sweet talking' some critter and she doesnt even know what it is! Next time you go out at night, take the gun.
