Last possum in my yard got knocked over the fence off the end of my axe handle. Last night it was me vs the raccoon. Squint eyed bastard was on the deck knocking stuff over. I got the axe handle and crept to the door but the little shitte scuttled into the yard and up a tree. This happened three times. I could just shoot him but where's the fun in that?
Man every possum I've seen was hissing and mean as hell. I remember getting home from church one Sunday and my dad seen a big possum in the carport. he jumped out of the car and grabbed a 4"x8" about 4' long and smashed the possum flat as a pancake. I think I was about 4 one of my earliest memories.
Good luck with that. We had a female cat at work that 3 different guys tried to take home. One lived 20 miles away, took her a little over a month to find her way back. She had 3 different litters over the year and a half she hung around. I got one of her 1st. When she was in heat there would be 5 or 6 toms hanging around also. A couple of the guys that work there were feeding her, which also attracted a big ol coon, and then a litter of baby coons. City ended up trapping and killing the cats, boss told the guys doing the feeding they would get fired if they kept it up. It was quite amusing watching the little kittens play at lunch time though.
I don't know if you were responding to Toe, but that could be a fun experiment. Buy some cheap wine to leave on the porch every night and turn your raccoon into an alcoholic.
Awe its kinda cute! I had a possum chase me back in my house one night. Kinda freaked me out a lil. So now I let my 2 Neapolitan Mastiffs outside first then I go behind them :up:
Another place I worked I was the last one out the back door at breaktime. There was a 6" diameter downspout laying by the door that had fallen off the building. The guys are telling me hey a mouse just ran in that pipe. Cool I'm always up for harassing wildlife. So I went down to the end and reached down to get ready to grab it and another guy kicked the other end. The biggest goddamn "mouse" I've ever seen in my life came flying out teeth bared and pissed off. Chased me a good 10 yards before he veered off under a car. Was a possum. I'm still not sure if they were laughing at my reaction, the screaming like a girl, or when I grabbed a spare pair of shorts out of my truck and went back inside. Bastards.
So far none have come back, but the ones that are left stay away from the trap. If they do return I may have to go back on my promise to my wife to relocate and not eliminate. Kittens are cute but I got tired of my yard being the sandbox and stepping in it getting the paper in the morning. The possum once caught is going to a friends house. She told me she thought they were cute.