When I come home after 10 PM the other night I found the pest that's been taring out our trash. It's a possum, ugly thing and scared the Be Jesus out of me. It was hissing at me. At first I thought it was an ugly cat. It's taken shelter on our upstairs porch. How the heck do we get rid of it. I've thrown plastic bottles at it tried to make it unwelcomed but it comes back. Don't know if its male or female and I don't want to know it's ugly and hisses. Can anyone tell me how to rid it??????

Shoot it in the head.

Thank goodness, I have a few neighbors who would do the same. I myself could never bring myself to do it even if I did own a firearm, so if you're like me you may need to ask a friend or neighbor to do the deed for you.

Put up a "No Possums" sign.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Should I then contact the HCP to come arrest it?
OMG you're a trip.
I do have firearms but I ain't cleaning that mess up. There has to be a better way to get it from here.

Well, knowing how much H-sville wants to be a grown up "city", if you have that firearm with in "city" limits, you are going to be in Big Trouble Mister. "WE WANT TO BE LIKE DC"

Having the gun isn't the problem in the city, shooting it is. The city code only prohibits the firing of projectiles, not the possession of things (gun, BB gun, bow, blow gun) that do the firing.

I used to have a German Shepherd who took care of possums for me. She cleaned up the mess, too.

omg LMAO!!
Thanks for the much needed laugh SMan!

George Jones was on your back porch.

Ok, you can't shoot it in the city unless you have a silencer and some sub-sonics.

I would tell you to get the baseball bat out, but a possum is one tough critter.

So I guess the only thing I can tell you is it looks like you got a new pet.

Call animal control. Make those Humane Society slackers do some real work for a change.

Somehow I don't think they'll have much luck finding somebody to adopt it.

Borrow a Hav A Hart box trap (ted's will rent them) One can of catfood or tuna and voila boxed possum. Cant hurt you. Take it for a ride in the country.

Heyceeo
I still ain't getting near it. It hisses. Ugly thing. I haven't seen it in 2 day's now so maybe by me throwing the plastic bottles and using the steam cleaner hose and plastic peace and chasing it off it left. But I will do the next thing and that is shot it, city or not..... Scary little thing....

I was hunting for my Chihuahua last night, I never let her out unattended but she got a scent. Her ears and hair stood up. She thought about wandering.
On the other side, this big ball of dark fluff with scary teeth, jumped out from under the deck. My dog was growling and looking fierce, all 4 pounds of her. I think it was a wild critter.

CH
I bet it was one of the ugly one's. Possum. I was told to lay out a lot of Moth balls. So we looked for them at Wal-mart yesterday and couldn't find any. If anyone run's across Moth balls while out and about let me know where you saw them ok. Thanks.

Don't kill it just cos it's ugly. He's hissing because he's scared of you.

Why don't you put your trash in something where he can't get to it? It might not just be the possum tearing it open. It could be other little critters.

Buy a sturdy trash holder thing.

Have a Heart Trap, then call animal control.

As they taught us in SEAL school all those many years ago...

Ain't Nothing that Can't be solved with the appropriate use of high explosives...

Living in the country, you can shoot them. They are the most ugly looking things I have ever seen..
Hope you get rid of it...

Now you are talking.

I love the smell of C4 and possum fur.

About a month ago, I was sitting in my mancave with the windows open enjoying the evening temperature while slaying orcs and trolls. I heard this loud crunch as a car went by and I looked out the window and saw something in the road moving after it had been hit. I went outside thinking what the hell am I gonna do for this badly injured dog. As I got up close, I saw that it was a possum. A big one! By the time I got there it was dead, so I headed back to the mancave to kill more orcs and trolls that night. True story.

Sad news everyone. The ugly one has been killed. NOT BY ME OK. Their's a company out back of me and the ugly one has been visiting them as well. Busy little ugly thing. Well one of the workers brought in a meatloaf, (won't be eating at his house) filled with clorax. No jokes the Ugly thing dug it out of the trash and ate it and they found it just a few feet away from where it feasted.
I hate those things hope I never see one again. God they're ugly.
Heather we did buy an aluminum trash can with a lid and it still got in it. IN PART DUE TO THE WIFE NOT PUTTING ON THE LID.

WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can I turn this into a dating thread, because this is the crap I have to deal with. I'd take the possum, or Coma, over y'all any day.

Heather
Here's a simple fix then. Don't follow the thread, it was Your choice to start reading it, and Your choice to post a reply, and you my choose not to read it. Simple, and at no point and time has anyone in this thread suggested dating you or anyone else. Sorry you're confused.

Hunting Chihuahua? They don't even run away. They just sit there and stare at you with those sad eyes. Where's the sport in that?

Dodge, thank goodness it wasn't somebody's dog who had gotten loose and was getting into their trash cans.

Hunting Chihuahua...

Actually, with my Chichuahua any dog or animal is a concern to her. She raises her back, growls, and holds her ground. She is clueless she could be a sandwich in one bite. Crazy, goofy, and silly, that is the life of a Chihuahua. Nothing bothers her, she owns the corner.

Yeh Heather, Start your own thread if you want a date.

Wanted: Single man with brains. Likes to spend money on significant other & spoil me. Doesn't matter if you look like a half rotted dog or oppossum...

or Coma

rotted dog re: Coma pic... (not saying you actually look like a rotted dog, Coma!)

I'm lookin for love in all the wrong places.

In a possum thread, no less.

12:18 am, welcome Heather. We like your late visits. Watch out, after midnight the possums are out there.

Whatever time of the day it is I don't ever care for easy or sloppy when it comes to animals. I know a lot of people disagree with me, but it's just a matter of laziness when you shoot a problem. You might as well be heartless, imo. Humanity extends to animals. Your property is, obviously yours, and you will treat it as such = tears in my eyes.

My friend at work is probably poisoning a hot hog at this moment to "catch" whatever is eating her chickens. I express my disdain whilst she laughs at my discomfort. As usual.

I expect no less. People laugh at my sore spots all the time. Dig in, dig in.

I never have the situation of having to decide on whether to kill or trap an animal. Everything runs away from me. Bye little critters, on to the neighbor's spread next door. Boo hoo, possums and such do not like me. That is how it is.

The only thing I dig into is macaroni salad. Opps wrong thread. I need to find the healthy living or what I had for lunch thread.

If you leave out some macaroni salad, raccoons will gladly share it with you. They may not even run from you!

Seriunsu, I like that.
My teenagers are home with many friends. They will probably leave something out for the critters. Out by the hammock seems to be a popular place to hang out and leave a little snack.

You'll get birds that way!

Heather,

I live in the country and some groundhogs have at various times tried to build under my porch, tore up the yard, came up on my upstairs deck, and raided my garden (most recently lopping off 2 tomato plants!). I guess I was lazy, cuz I dispatched them with a gun, quickly. I don't like poison because it can get non-target animals and is a pretty painless death many times. To me it was like killing a mouse in a trap, killing a pest.

The same day I most recently executed a groundhog, I also rescued a day or 2 old fawn from the middle of the road on a back country road and set it back in the woods where Ma could get to it before they both got killed. He could not stand up on the slick road, and was gonna get killed by the next car that came by. I stopped my motorcycle, parked it, and at some risk of getting me or my bike hit, got the deer. I hope I was not lazy that time.

Thank goodness you didn't cause a major traffic accident while you were cavorting with the widllife!

I have an incredible soft spot for creatures. Ugly and stupid ones too. If anyone wonders where it comes from, I don't know because I was a blood thirsty, cruel little tomboy. It's not something I choose to have. I often wish I wasn't so delicate about such matters.

You gave me a scenario, Snoopy, and I gave you one. What do we do about it? I only imagine we think about each other when such situations arise.?

:shrug:

Some woman was screaming as I entered my office today. I looked and she pointed to the floor. There was the hugest looking cockroach, actually just a dazed palm keadow bug. She asked "What kind of bug is that?" Another lady said: "A dead one." Splat............It was women power I guess, splat. Sorry Heather, I will be gentler.

I too love all animals but not bugs. Especially when the bug is close in size to my puppy.
I am a sucker for dogs and horses.

You're okay for a bunny hugger, Heather.

Seriously, if I were single I'd ask ya out for a burger sometime. If ya lectured me on eating meat, I'd figure we just might not wanna waste our time.

I too, like Heather, am a sucker for all animals - EXCEPT bugs. I will not destroy them in their own environment (outside), but once they step into my home, it's all over.

Well.......if the "bugs" are spiders, I make an exception. Spiders kill other bugs for me, and dispose of the evidence when they are done..........................