Opened the door last night and I thought I saw a cat about 40 feet away in the brush. When it looked at me, I realized it was definitely NOT a cat. A Virginia Possum if the pics on the internet are right. I wasn't thrilled with it being so close (being a city boy), but the net sez they're not really a problem.
Right now a feral cat has hunted it across the area. Another has decided that he looks pretty tasty and is waiting off to the side...
This is definitely 'the country.'
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
--Philip K. Dick
Dog has eaten 3 possums in the last 6 months. Actually, he just snaps their necks until they are fun no longer.
I shot one last night that was in the process of helping itself to my cats food.
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. — GARY LLOYD
The nation we live in is the nation we have built by design, each successive generation raising the wall of tyranny a little higher. - Chris Griffin
There used to be a possum living behind some boxes, on a shelf, in my garage. He never bothered anything -- just slept all day and went perusing about all night. I sometimes hear him on 3843 kHz.
Last edited by XE1/N5AL; 09-26-2012 at 05:42 PM.
I see 'em in my back yard all the time--ugly little bastids, but harmless. They are marsupials, BTW, and have more teeth than any other mammal.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
I have a possum whuppin stick that I use. Aerobic exercise, you know.
"Friendships come in strange packages
The best ones are opened with a smile"
NA4BH '15
Used to get them coming out at night to scarf up the food we put out for the cat on the farm. If you startle them, they'd play dead and you can pick them up.
I am surprised at such a sudden deterioration in a woman whose only ailment was a lazy anus.
Which is why that cat better hope he doesn't catch him. I had a dog that cornered one once when I was a kid. It took 30 stitches to close him up.Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
"One man with courage makes a majority." ~ Andrew Jackson
Steve KA9MOT
Macomb, IL
No possums here, I never go to 3843 anyways .......
....but..... we have serious Racoon problems around here.Damn things keep trying to break into the garage!
Why,driving into a brick wall at 60 miles per hour, would I expect it not to hurt!
Walk and Talk like a Canajun!!
Chasing them is damn good cardio interval training.
Jim
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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