Facts You Didn’t Know
Update – for those of you rooting for the opossum we caught in the humane trap in our garage two night ago –
- the ones we find are NOT sweet little cuddly furry creatures we could adopt. They have big teeth and hiss and spit. They try to eat not only all the birdseed they can find in the garage, but roam over our counters, knocking things off onto the floor, walk over the top of my husband’s Vette, scratching the paint and sometimes leaving ‘treasures’ on top and in the bed of our truck. They terrorize our cat, eat the food out of her bowl and knock the bowl onto the floor, and the list continues.
- The one we trapped two nights ago is free. Our dog Amber got into the act (my husband never thought about leaving her inside – go figure) and proceeded to try to fight with the possum. The possum DIDN’T play possum, but ran across the yard. My husband thought, “Oh, well,” and started back inside. The possum ran BACK into the garage under the Vette. He looked, but couldn’t find the possum.
- SO – last night we were awakened at 0-dark-thirty by Amber barking in the utility room. We managed to ignore it. When she started up again this morning, my husband ignored it, but I couldn’t.
- It didn’t bother me a bit that Amber went upstairs after I had done all the morning chores and cold-nosed my husband awake. :0)
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Our possums in Australia don’t look near as ferocious as yours in fact they are quite cute but they slide down the roof of night and eat every bit of fruit they can find on our fruit trees & strip the more exotics of their leaves. I like to share with nature but we have now given up on our fruit trees after a relentless battle
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Wow. Sorry about the fruit trees. I guess we see the possums here at one of the worst times in their lives, when they’re trapped in a cage overnight, ‘humane’ trap or not. This one seems to have escaped unless he makes the mistakes of getting into our trap again. Thanks for writing.
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