I hate Hate HATE 'possums

[the4heathernsmom]

oh you go Ms Jayne !!!!

I am rolling because that is soooo me !!!!! too funny !!! I needed a laugh tonite
!!!!

 

[Beekissed]

Ms Jayne, I want to nominate that as the best pic of the week ever!!!!

I don't know how you do it, but you still manage to look like a Cover Girl even while brandishing a dead possum.....

It's just not right.....

 

[SallyF]

Between Ms jayne's picture and the Beekissed story about Earl, I may not stop giggling long enough to get to sleep tonight!

 

[cgmccary]

I have my problems with opossums as well but I do NOT "hate opossums." They are just trying to survive just like everything else. I only shoot & kill when I catch one in the act. Otherwise, I leave them alone or I trap and take over the mountain to where nobody lives. They eat a lot of mice and they are great scavengers of carrion. Most of the time, opossums are hunting mice when they stumble upon our chickens.

 

[steward]

Beekissed that's about the funniest post I've read yet.I read it to my hubby and he laughed just as hard as I did. Thanks!

 

[Beekissed]

Glad everyone was amused....now come and take Earl home!

Ya know? I really can't bear to kill him....he is so very ugly that he is cute, he stinks and he moves slow. Kind of reminds me of my ex-husband.......

On second thought, WHERE'S MY GUN????

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

possums eat dead things

I do too

Live things wont stay on the grill​

 

[Beekissed]

Quote:
I do too

Live things wont stay on the grill

Whew! <gasp!> THAT felt gooooood!

 

[cgmccary]

oh, I should probably take back what I said because it cursed me. You can see it is 3:34 a.m. here in Alabama & tomorrow is a work day--- got woke up, heard chickens screaming . . . no time . . . so with only my underwear, barefoot, raining real hard- outside -I go with ,22 rifle and one of those tiny flashlights. I wear contacts which I take off at night so I have my glasses on-- ya'll know about glasses and rain. A big opossum on the roost, chickens running around in the dark and rain. Well, the opossum is a return from last week that I missed on a good shot so he knows to run. He runs fast, I'm trying to hold the flashlight and shoot. He goes up the fig bush, I shoot, he drops to the ground, runs to the thick brush at end of run, climbs in the trees and bushes. I can't find him so I start gathering up hens in the dark. They're screaming bloody murder.

I'd put down the rifle in a dry spot so I catch all the hens I can, put them back on the roost. I went back with that tiny little flashlight looking up in the trees. I see the opossum in the top of the tree. It was difficult, holding the flashlight on him and aiming at the same time (but at least this third shot, he wasn't moving around like the 2 before), hard rain, looking through those #@%$ glasses standing in mud, I got him. He dropped in the run still squirming.

I am hating opossums now & probably should just say, I HATE THEM TOO and lift the curse. I've still got to go back out in the rain & mud and bag him & count hens to see if there are any remaining in the rainy dark.

 

[joebryant]

They have their place in the scheme of things. They're one of the few things that nature provides to decorate long expanses of ungly, paved roads.