Night visitor captured! :)

Bear Claw Chris Lappe · #1 10-17-2009, 02:14 PM

For about a week, we've had something getting in our garage that could spring both mouse and rat traps without getting caught, so I set a large humane trap and last night caught the little culprit!!

Took him out to a relatives house in the country and set him loose this morning in her 18 acre woods.

DCWilson · #2 10-17-2009, 02:17 PM

Great photo. Would that gaping mouth make a great avatar, or what?

max · #3 10-17-2009, 02:27 PM

They say those critters haven't changed since the dinosaurs.

tallpaul · #4 10-17-2009, 02:28 PM

Don't get caught "transporting" wildlife from one area to another. Some states have laws against relocating and insist the critters be put down. Ohio is like that.

s&wchad · #5 10-17-2009, 02:39 PM

Nice teeth! He must brush after every meal, I don't see one cavity.

windjammer · #6 10-17-2009, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by max

They say those critters haven't changed since the dinosaurs.

I think a possum or a rat can survive most anything or anywhere..

Lee in Quartzsite · #7 10-17-2009, 02:56 PM

Looks like a female to me if you look close at the first photo. Probably has a litter of tiny, helpless babies that are now starving to death somewhere close by......

Bear Claw Chris Lappe · #8 10-17-2009, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Lee in Quartzsite

Looks like a female to me if you look close at the first photo. Probably has a litter of tiny, helpless babies that are now starving to death somewhere close by......

Nope, what you think are nipple in that shot, is it's back foot toes.

ladder13 · #9 10-17-2009, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Lee in Quartzsite

Probably has a litter of tiny, helpless babies that are now starving to death somewhere close by......

Yea, and to me that's a good thing

I hate those things.

windjammer · #10 10-17-2009, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by ladder13

Yea, and to me that's a good thing

I hate those things.

Don't possums carry their young with em'......I've seen several that did.?

ladder13 · #11 10-17-2009, 03:34 PM

I woulda capped momma from the get go.

Had a couple of those creatures in my backyard about 2 years ago. They made the mistake of climbing onto my deck.

Afterwards, I needed a bit of sandpaper to smooth out the decking.

Bear Claw Chris Lappe · #12 10-17-2009, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by windjammer

Don't possums carry their young with em'......I've seen several that did.?

Yes, they are marsupials with a pouch, and carry their young up to a certain age, even at times carrying them on their backs clinging to their fur.

This was 100% not a nursing female though, I didn't think to take a picture of it's "undercarriage", but it wasn't for those that are worried about it.

don95sml · #13 10-17-2009, 04:52 PM

Sounds like you have a hole in your garage wall that needs fixing?

Faulkner · #14 10-17-2009, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Lee in Quartzsite

Looks like a female to me if you look close at the first photo. Probably has a litter of tiny, helpless babies that are now starving to death somewhere close by......

. . . and one .22 short just under the ear will take care of the whole lot.

Lee in Quartzsite · #15 10-17-2009, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by windjammer

Don't possums carry their young with em'......I've seen several that did.?

They do most of the time...these probably got away just in the nick of time. Good thing no one got bit, then it's rabies shot time and that's not a good thing.

Bassamatic · #16 10-17-2009, 06:08 PM

I would killed that damn thing right where it sat. Yes, a .22 will do the job nicely.

I hate those things.

CAJUNLAWYER · #17 10-17-2009, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Bear Claw Chris Lappe

Nope, what you think are nipple in that shot, is it's back foot toes.

I've never been so drunk that I couldn't tell a nipple from a toe

mjr · #18 10-17-2009, 07:12 PM

Those things are supposed to be good eatin', and that looks like a young and tender one. Anyone got recipes?

Bear Claw Chris Lappe · #19 10-17-2009, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER

I've never been so drunk that I couldn't tell a nipple from a toe

Apparently someone on here is.

Lee in Quartzsite · #20 10-17-2009, 07:37 PM

OK...here is more than you want to know about Possum Pie:

Possums - The REAL Flavor of the South

charlie sherrill · #21 10-17-2009, 08:57 PM

If you've ever seen some of the stuff they crawl out of you wouldn't want one for supper....but if I had to eat one it would be with sweet potatoes.

rburg · #22 10-17-2009, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER

I've never been so drunk that I couldn't tell a nipple from a toe

I heard Sip was one time. That's why he left Kentucky!

redlevel · #23 10-17-2009, 10:42 PM

My Mama said her brother used to trap them during the depression. He would keep them in a pen for a week to ten days and feed them corn and greens to "clean them out." Then they would eat them with turnip greens and sweet potatoes. Along with rabbits, they were known as "Hoover Hogs" in the South.

5Wire · #24 10-17-2009, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER

I've never been so drunk that I couldn't tell a nipple from a toe

But you have had your foot in your mouth lately, it seems (gorilla ma dreams?)

Wheelgunner840 · #25 10-17-2009, 11:46 PM

That's someones cat! You're mean! Here is the proof!

Anyone lose a cat? Cat Found? Lost Cat? Only in LA on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

armadillo · #26 10-17-2009, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER

I've never been so drunk that I couldn't tell a nipple from a toe

Then there was the time " . . . I thought I was dancing, until somebody stepped on my hand," you could look up at the toes from that position.

MKT · #27 10-18-2009, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by mjr

Those things are supposed to be good eatin', and that looks like a young and tender one. Anyone got recipes?

Perhaps Dixie, have you checked the food thread?

n4zov · #28 10-18-2009, 09:46 AM

What kind of forum is this turning into when nobody has a recipe for possum!

Redneck Possum

MK · #29 10-18-2009, 01:08 PM

No recipe, but I've got the possums. I've been using ours for
trail cam bait. I lure em in with stale dinner rolls, and last night
set out a piece of pizza crust. The possum went ape over that.
Kept coming back to look for scraps, and eat the stick I had it
stuck on.
These danged citified Houston varmints like Italian food.. :/

Night IR yard rat video. Had the cam aimed a bit low and getting
a lot of flashback from the tree stump.
The last 3/4 is from last night.
http://home.comcast.net/~disk100/stew.wmv
I've also got a collection of tree rat video in the daytime. They
like those dinner rolls. :/
http://home.comcast.net/~disk100/crittervid2.wmv

ladder13 · #30 10-18-2009, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by MK

These danged citified Houston varmints like Italian food.. :/

Those were Bronx-bred, Sip brought them to Houston, then left them there after he fled Texas.

Lee in Quartzsite · #31 10-18-2009, 02:29 PM

Possum and Taters

Possums - The REAL Flavor of the South

35Rem · #32 10-18-2009, 02:31 PM

I don't think marsupials carry rabies...it's a mammal thing...

I spared one once. It immediately ran under my house where it could do untold damage. I vowed never again to let a critter live that can tear up my property...Possums, coons, 'dillers, and cats...

redlevel · #33 10-18-2009, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by 35Rem

I don't think marsupials carry rabies...it's a mammal thing...

Possums are mammals. I think I read somewhere they rarely get rabies because their body temps are too high. Or maybe it is too low? Don't remember which.

m75rlg · #34 10-18-2009, 03:36 PM

All this talk about shooting 'posums! Here in North Carolina we always just caught them by the tail and dropped them in a burlap poke. {That would be a burlap sack for all you Yankees}. Somebody would always take them to put up and clean out for a roasted 'posum supper. It was usually the older folks who grew up eating them during the depression.

Never heard of anyone getting rabies or indigestion either.

Why, when I was stationed in the Provest Element at USCG Station Cape May, some of the fireman at the fire station caught a baby 'posum and tamed him. He'd ride around on your shoulder and eat out of your hand!

Catching a posum by the tail in nothing compared to grabbing a large snapping turtle. The real excitment come then when you'v got them pined down, but the water is too mudy to see for sure which end is the tail, and which is the head!

redlevel · #35 10-18-2009, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by m75rlg

All this talk about shooting 'posums! Here in North Carolina we always just caught them by the tail and dropped them in a burlap poke. {That would be a burlap sack for all you Yankees}.

Same method here in Georgia, 'cept we would call the container or receptacle a "croker sack." A Georgian, and probably a Nawth Ca'linian, would probably be as likely to drop a 'Coon, or maybe a dozen big ol' bullfrogs, in his poke/croker sack. I have seen my old Gran'daddy come home with such various commodities as watermelons, turnip greens, poke salit, sweet taters, possums, catfish, and once a gallon of shine likker, in a croker sack slung over a shoulder.

Sorry for the thread drift.

scoutsdad · #36 10-18-2009, 06:04 PM

Then there was the time " . . . I thought I was dancing, until somebody stepped on my hand," you could look up at the toes from that position.

Number 36 Why I don't drink no more.

That would be The Gator, did it once at my wife's office party. Never got invited back.

therevjay · #37 10-18-2009, 08:21 PM

[QUOTE=m75rlg;1139938]All this talk about shooting 'posums! Here in North Carolina we always just caught them by the tail and dropped them in a burlap poke. {That would be a burlap sack for all you Yankees}.

I was stationed in Virginia. A "poke" was a small sack. (suitible for a bag of chips, or maybe a "6 pack") A "tote" was a sack big enough to hold a 'possum.

putt45 · #38 10-18-2009, 08:28 PM

Saw a possum one time on the road.
Couldn't tell if it was dead --
or playing possum.

michael thornton · #39 10-18-2009, 08:37 PM

i knew a guy that said a possum backed with a sweet tater fence was good eatin, ill just take his word!

35Rem · #40 10-18-2009, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by redlevel

Possums are mammals. I think I read somewhere they rarely get rabies because their body temps are too high. Or maybe it is too low? Don't remember which.

Nope:
Opossum Facts (can't believe there is sucha a thing...)
"North America's only marsupial "

I DO stand corrected on the rabies issue. They say they are more RESISTANT to rabies than mammals. So they CAN carry rabies.

M28 · #41 10-19-2009, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER

I've never been so drunk that I couldn't tell a nipple from a toe

Never? I call BS.....and this from a guy with Blutarsky as his avatar!

Brian~

Forester · #42 10-19-2009, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by CAJUNLAWYER

I've never been so drunk that I couldn't tell a nipple from a toe

No? were you ever so drunk you didn't care which was which?

wbraswell · #43 10-19-2009, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by n4zov

What kind of forum is this turning into when nobody has a recipe for possum!

Redneck Possum

I've heard that Granny Clampett had a good one.

michael thornton · #44 10-19-2009, 07:12 PM

just think it coulda been a bear! how manny post would that get?

reddogge · #45 10-20-2009, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Bear Claw Chris Lappe

For about a week, we've had something getting in our garage that could spring both mouse and rat traps without getting caught, so I set a large humane trap and last night caught the little culprit!!

Did he have a sore nose?

TNDixieGirl · #46 10-20-2009, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by MKT

Perhaps Dixie, have you checked the food thread?

Blech, yuck, ewwww.....no, no, no, no, no. Dixie doesn't have a possum recipe.