Possom Outbreak!

Definately an off the wall subject, but kinda interesting.:LOL: Ive got possoms like crazy around my house lately. And big... they are like two feet long not including the tail! I work til 6 pm mon thru friday, so when I get off theres not alot of daylight. When I was tryin to get my truck runnin the other night, I heard a long hissing sound behind me... turned around and there was a big as* possom with its mouth open like five feet from me. I jumped up on the core support in a half a second:LOL: I shot another in my back yard with a pellet rifle today at 2 in the afternoon. And I got a trap that catches one everytime I set it! Whats crazy is I dont live out in the boonies, I live right in the middle of amarillo about 250 yrds from I 40. I dont know... I think its a conspiracy:LOL:

They are going thru your yard to get to the Big Texan Steak House

They need your blood, the vapire possom gang!!! HE! HE! HE!
kurt

Sound like a Bar B Q get the Hot sauce . Seriously that is a funny story. Run for your lives the possums are coming. Could be a movie or better yet reality TV show, would be just an interesting as whats on at any given day of the week.

we are trading them to you for these in bama :D

here`s another one for you ;)

josh i have heard that hiss that they make. sends cold chills up your spine. they get really big here also. we are not allowed to shoot them as we live in town so we just live trap them and relocate them up the county. nasty looking creatures.

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Originally Posted by HOSS429

here`s another one for you ;)

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I hope that is a small possum,cos down here they hiss at you,but they are the size of cats...large cats..That thing looks like a rat that we have in the swampy mangroves..:D:D I bet they can climb ya leg pretty quick though..:eek:

here is one of ours

Will have to go out an see if I can find a presentable road kill for you...:D:DOr see if I can find you one of our nasties..Depending on where they are in the country,some are almost black,while others have a regular grey coat..

Possums are just scary looking rodents! :eek: I hate running across one at night.

We have racoons at our shop. Every night when I feed the stray cats 3 big racoons also show up to eat. At first I would scare them away because I thought they were chasing the cats away from their food, but then I noticed the cats will eat right beside them out of the same dish, so I just put out some extra now.

Tonight one came right up to me when I was feeding the cats, he isn't afraid of humans at all, and doesn't seem to be mean either. I guess they have lived with the cats so long they think they are just one of them. :LOL:

Don

Okay..did some gooogling..This is what we have down here..

our possums are our only marsupial in th u.s.

They look like they are related to rats...Like I said earlier,they are about the same size as the rats we find in the mangroves down here..Will they attack??If you corner our possums,you can have a fight on ya hands..I have been ripped by one,and their claws are very sharp..I just remembered,we do have another possum here,,a rare beast...It screams when it moves..but it comes from his mode of transport..This is ''Possum'' Shute..:D:D
Don,forgot to ask,,how big is a racoon?Just a little bigger than a cat??like a big cat,like a Maine coon??

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Originally Posted by josh bichard

I shot another in my back yard with a pellet rifle today at 2 in the afternoon. And I got a trap that catches one everytime I set it!

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I wish I hadn't read this.

Here's a younger one that comes up on the deck and I put food out for him every evening.
His name is "Fluffball";)
There's a family of about 3 that hang around here.
The hiss is just a "bluff".
Ever heard of playing "Possum"?
They are harmless and have a face that only a Mother can love.
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/h...uffBall002.jpg

Hey hoss, we got those here too, but ive only seen one in person.

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Originally Posted by techinspector1

I wish I hadn't read this.

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Go get some frozen yogurt you grumpy ol man

the women that lives next door catches them in a cage type trap them gives them a bath in the river. You know they don't swim well in that cage.

when you live on a farm a rodent is a rodent. they go on a quick weight gain program here.

I had one of my Boxer pups in the back yard and two possom's came out from some bushes and tried to get her. My old male boxer that was 12 at the time killed both possoms in about one minute. He was not having any of that on his watch.
Boxer's are excellent catch dog's, they are very fast and agile.
Kurt

I'll probably get plummeted after this one but here goes anyhow. First of all, they are not rodents. As a matter of fact they eat mice, rats, snakes and other less desirables of God's creatures. In reality they are really Nature's Sanitation Agents.

Here is a video explaining just exactly what? and who? they are. YES, the Rocky Soundtrack sucks so just turn your volume off, that is, if you even care to be informed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4hmB...eature=related

Around here it's this guys cousins.

All this possum talk---hotrod talk would be wildcat, cougar, etc

Don't forget about Red Green and the Possum Van! (Google it if you're not familiar)

I was born and raised way out in the country in East Texas a loooong, loooong time ago. Most of the countrys kids ran some form of a trap line and Possum was the probably most caught of all of those critters. The Possum hide would bring .50¢ on in a average winter and .75¢ on a real cold one, not bad really back in the early 50's when a grown man with a family was making $2.25 or so an hour. A lot of folks ate the Possums as well, ,to some it was a real treat back in the day. Possum and Sweet Potatos is an old southern dish that goes way back. I must say I have tried it myself, not going to say it taste like chicken either and as long as they make cows and chickens--Never Again....

RS

I could write a book on my experiences with the opossums and coons,
and some are real funny.....Anytime you feed a pet outdoors, you are
apt to attract about any kind of varmint, and cat food isn't cheap either.

When it comes to Possum and Sweet Taters, I'm with you, Hombre - - - - - however, a young and tender fried Racoon with some Collard Greens is a different story.:D

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Originally Posted by josh bichard

Go get some frozen yogurt you grumpy ol man

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Aren't you the pleasant one?????? :rolleyes:

Don

i aint poor enough to eat possum yet .............

Then there is Garfield:
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i8...f/Garfield.jpg

So tell us Mello does Racoon taste like chicken???
HE! HE! HE!
And just incase your wondering gater taste like raw hide to me!!!
Kurt

Hahaha, nope Racoon tastes like Squirrel.
Sounds like you ate some Gator that was done by an amateur. There's a Cajun Restaurant in Winnie, Texas called Al T's that has the best I have ever tasted.