New Possum....on my Patio...

[ChicknThief]

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I dont date, but that is funny!

 

[d.k]

*1- Possums LOVE CAT FOOD. Feed Cat in daytime before Possums are active. REMOVE LEFTOVERS. 2- POSSUMS WILL ATTACK & KILL CHICKENS. THEY GRAB THE CKN BY THE HEAD WHILE CKNS SLEEP!! 3- Possums can CARRY & TRANSMIT RABIES TO ANY OTHER WARM-BLOODED SPECIES; CKNS/CATS/DOGS/KIDS/YOU!!! 4- IT IS LIVING NEARBY-- LIKELY IN A TREE HOLE SOMEPLACE. 5- EVEN IF IT DOESN'T HAVE RABIES, IT'S TEETH ARE VERY SHARP & VERY SEPTIC!! 6- THEY CAN RUN FAST--ESP. WHEN BEING HIT W/ A STICK!! 7- THE LAST ONE IN MY YARD WEIGHED OVER 10 LBS. AND ALMOST KILLED MY MISS CHOOK. RECOVERY TOOK 3 MTHS. PLUS!! 8- THE POSSUM WON'T BE ATTACKING ANYTHING ELSE. 9-- DOES ANYONE HAVE IDEAS OF HOW TO DISCOURAGE A HANGING AROUND HAWK??

 

[Scrambled Egg]

THEY CAN RUN FAST--ESP. WHEN BEING HIT W/ A STICK!!

Noooooo, don't hit it with a stick!!! I don't think my possum (the one wearing the collar from Grits, not to be mistaken for a wild animal, lol!) can get to my chickens anyway, they ae pretty secure in their pen and my labradog in the backyard would kill him if he got into her yard anyway. Nothing goes back there and survives unless we take it back there and she knows it is supposed to be there, she's old but has always been a wonderful yard watcher! Not saying at all that a possum wouldn't kill a chicken, I think anything hungry can become a predator, even a human will break into a store for food, everything wants to survive and I totally understand that. I am sorry about your hen and hope she recovered nicely.

I thought someone else, Spence?, said possums are marsupials and dont transmit rabies? I have no idea personally but since I've never heard of a rabid one I believed that post.

I know I have made light and picked and laughed about my possum and I would feed anything hungry. I am also the person that makes you wait in a line of traffic while I stop my car, get out and get the turtle in the middle of the road and move it to the right of way, hundreds of them over the years...but I wouldn't stick my hand anywhere near a wild animal unless I knew the end that has the teeth was securely held shut...and since Lee doesn't live anywhere near me, guess that's not gonna happen with Fred, lol! Thanks for the concern, I do appreciate it, but I am quite fond of admiring my fat little visitor!

 

[d.k]

*Sorry--obviously missed the fact that it is a PET possum! Chook is great NOW, with a little lost sight in 1 eye & a 1" scar on her comb. AT THE TIME, THOUGH-- WHAT A MESS!! TEETH HOLES! in her beak, face, eyelids, neck-- comb cut through at the back, bloody & black & blue to her chest PLUS the eye which had serious gravel in it! Possums not my favs, natch. OTHERWISE-- Once almost rolled my car to rescue a big ole gopher turtle trying to cross I-95! that Possum is the only critter I've ever had to take out. WOULDN'T GIVE UP THE CHICKEN!!!

 

[Scrambled Egg]

*sorry--obviously missed the fact that it is a PET possum!

 

[tiffanyh]

Possums dont carry rabies.....

We had one around our pens, coops for months, never touched anything. I actually got it from the coop to transport it. I picked it up by the tail and put it in a carrier. He wsa ticked and hissing but they tend to be mostly talk in my experiences.

 

[LinckHillPoultry]

a caught a baby one in fall. It was so darn cute. It "played" dead, until I got it in our ranger to take it back to the woods, then it suddenly came back to life!

I let it go in the woods, it crawled under a big boulder.

 

[d.k]

*first one I euer saw up-close was sleeping the day away--- in the junk drawer in my kitchen in CA.. Came in up through a plumbing access from under the house-- it was liuing under the house. Pulled open the drawer to put some stuff away and EEEK!! Haha! Called ASPCA, THEY were the ones to explain that p's LOVE catfood. THEY ALSO SAID to keep it's head away with the broom, grab it by the tail & put it in "something with a lid. All I had was a laundry hamper! We took it to the woods. As it walked off, it gave us a dirty look as if to say: DAMMIT!! WHERE WILL I FIND CATFOOD OUT HERE??!?

 

[Pelican49]

3- Possums can CARRY & TRANSMIT RABIES TO ANY OTHER WARM-BLOODED SPECIES; CKNS/CATS/DOGS/KIDS/YOU!!!

Any animal CAN carry rabies, including horses. The incidence of rabies in possums is extremely rare.

 

[Scrambled Egg]

*first one I euer saw up-close was sleeping the day away--- in the junk drawer in my kitchen in CA.. Came in up through a plumbing access from under the house-- it was liuing under the house. Pulled open the drawer to put some stuff away and EEEK!! Haha! Called ASPCA, THEY were the ones to explain that p's LOVE catfood.

Holy cow!!!!!​