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It's like I said before, they really are harmless and only want to get away from us. They wait until they feel like the coast is clear and quietly disappear. If I tried to beat it out of the house, I'd have to kill it because they won't stop playing dead. I know other people who have thrown them in the trash thinking they WERE dead only to return to the trash can later and they're gone. This is just one of many, many stories.
Note to self: Use shovel instead of broom.
Oh god the Nanny state strikes. People Eating Tasty Animals. They even had the balls to complain about Obama killing a fly in an interview recently. I do like the random drop off points as it works for animals but it reminds me of what a certain OC city police department used to do in the 80's with the homeless people when i was teenager. I did not think it was right what the police did but you hardly saw a homeless person in the city.
Don't they eat them in the South? You could make deep fried squirrel on a stick?
tmare_IHB
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Sunshine said:tmare said:GeorgeO said:tmare said:
Ok, I'll bite.... tmare, please, do tell one of your DOG vs POSSUM stories!
One night I came into my living room and one dachshund was pushing a very large possum through the doggie door (in the sliding glass door), while the other one was in the house was pulling him through the doggie door. It was amazing teamwork since the thing weighed more than them and was completely limp. Of course, the possum was playing dead so I had to go around the house to grab one dog and put him in the garage and I grabbed the dog from inside the house and put him in a bedroom. They howled and barked while the possum remained half in and half out of the doggie door for about 15 minutes. I just couldn't watch anymore so I went into the kitchen and a few minutes later when I checked, he was gone.
OMG, what if it came in rather than out? I would have beat that thing right out the doggy door with a broom. You deal with these issues much better than I would.
It's like I said before, they really are harmless and only want to get away from us. They wait until they feel like the coast is clear and quietly disappear. If I tried to beat it out of the house, I'd have to kill it because they won't stop playing dead. I know other people who have thrown them in the trash thinking they WERE dead only to return to the trash can later and they're gone. This is just one of many, many stories.
Sunshine_IHB
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tmare said:Sunshine said:tmare said:GeorgeO said:tmare said:
Ok, I'll bite.... tmare, please, do tell one of your DOG vs POSSUM stories!
One night I came into my living room and one dachshund was pushing a very large possum through the doggie door (in the sliding glass door), while the other one was in the house was pulling him through the doggie door. It was amazing teamwork since the thing weighed more than them and was completely limp. Of course, the possum was playing dead so I had to go around the house to grab one dog and put him in the garage and I grabbed the dog from inside the house and put him in a bedroom. They howled and barked while the possum remained half in and half out of the doggie door for about 15 minutes. I just couldn't watch anymore so I went into the kitchen and a few minutes later when I checked, he was gone.
OMG, what if it came in rather than out? I would have beat that thing right out the doggy door with a broom. You deal with these issues much better than I would.
It's like I said before, they really are harmless and only want to get away from us. They wait until they feel like the coast is clear and quietly disappear. If I tried to beat it out of the house, I'd have to kill it because they won't stop playing dead. I know other people who have thrown them in the trash thinking they WERE dead only to return to the trash can later and they're gone. This is just one of many, many stories.
Note to self: Use shovel instead of broom.
stepping_up_IHB
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My neighbor abhors the oppossums and tells me not to leave the dog's water out because it attracts them. I didn't have an issue with them other than that they did break my bird bath. I'm glad to hear that they are the non issue I thought they were. The squirrels do make a mess of the avocados. There was one the other that managed to run off with a half an avocado, which would be more than his own weight.
The one visitor that really has me scared though is the one my husband killed yesterday. This large brown spider drops down from the eave of the garage and when he gets face level my neighbor pointed out the fangs coming out of its face and said it was a brown recluse. Now I'm totally paranoid and want to know if there is anything we can do to keep these critters from being around.
The one visitor that really has me scared though is the one my husband killed yesterday. This large brown spider drops down from the eave of the garage and when he gets face level my neighbor pointed out the fangs coming out of its face and said it was a brown recluse. Now I'm totally paranoid and want to know if there is anything we can do to keep these critters from being around.
tmare_IHB
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Since it's pretty quite around here, and I love my old possum stories, I'll post again. For all of the possum haters, just ignore this one. The interesting thing about the possum stories is that they come from Eastside Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach and Santa Ana. I never even saw a possum growing up in Costa Mesa until I had moved out and returned from college.
I was living in an apartment in Eastside CM with my dog who usually slept in my bed with me. I woke up one night around 3:00 am and I heard some wrestling around on the floor near my bed. Half asleep, I reached down to the bottom of my bed to get the dog and I felt something wet and warm. As I opened my eyes in the dark, I saw that my hand was smack on a large possum who was laying on the floor playing dead. My dog had licked the possum until he was soaking wet. I grabbed my dog, slammed the door shut and slept on the couch in the living room for the remainder of the night. In the morning, the possum had exited through the sliding door of the bedroom that I usually left open for the dog during the night. The dog didn't have access to that door at night from that point on.
I was living in an apartment in Eastside CM with my dog who usually slept in my bed with me. I woke up one night around 3:00 am and I heard some wrestling around on the floor near my bed. Half asleep, I reached down to the bottom of my bed to get the dog and I felt something wet and warm. As I opened my eyes in the dark, I saw that my hand was smack on a large possum who was laying on the floor playing dead. My dog had licked the possum until he was soaking wet. I grabbed my dog, slammed the door shut and slept on the couch in the living room for the remainder of the night. In the morning, the possum had exited through the sliding door of the bedroom that I usually left open for the dog during the night. The dog didn't have access to that door at night from that point on.
OCCOBRA_IHB
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no_vaseline said:
Oh god the Nanny state strikes. People Eating Tasty Animals. They even had the balls to complain about Obama killing a fly in an interview recently. I do like the random drop off points as it works for animals but it reminds me of what a certain OC city police department used to do in the 80's with the homeless people when i was teenager. I did not think it was right what the police did but you hardly saw a homeless person in the city.
OCCOBRA_IHB
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ipoplaya said:I grew up in Georgia where squirrels were the primary target for young hunters with air rifles such as myself. I can still remember how to skin one if you ever wanted to make a gamey-tasting meal... Every house with a kid in my old neighborhood had a big piece of wood out back with tacked and salted squirrel pelts drying out.
From the pelts would come these and other nifty apparel:
Don't they eat them in the South? You could make deep fried squirrel on a stick?