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GeneMO

11-25-2007 16:51:01

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This is not O/T. It was almost dark and I was coming in from deer hunting about an hour and half ago. I was in deep thought about how to remove the center section of my super H, not sure what it's called, the casting that houses the Hydraulic pump and clutch. Anyway, I noticed something in the path that I didn't recognize. It looked like some kind of root wad or something. I got about 3 foot from it an realized it was a Pis**d off possum. I jumped about 4 feet when it ran at me and made that hissing sound they do. Scared the you know what out of me. And I had the gun!!!

Gene

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Puller504

11-28-2007 19:24:59

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

My sister called at 10pm one night last fall, something's under the porch scaring the kids! Kids are under the porch at 10pm??? I grab one of my .44 caliber handguns and drive over there to investigate. LARGE opposum snarling at my flashlight! One 240 grain .44 hollowpoint shot later and no more snarling 'possum! I also removed a skunk from her shed but that's a different story (with the same ending). Don

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Bob Kerr

11-26-2007 21:53:18

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

We had one get up on top of the inner fender well and inside the fender on Moms old 66 ford custom 500 when I was about 15. She went out to start the car and heard a weird noise so she shut it off and came in to ask me to come out and see what was wrong with the car. She cranked it again and I heard the noise she was talking about and it quit when she shut the car off. Did this several times while I stuck my head around in the engine compartment looking for the source! Boy did I jump when I found it!!!! So much for them drawers! I had my face not more than 6 inches away from it as it decided to come out! I had to use some blacksmith tongs to get it the rest of the way out.

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IA Roy

11-26-2007 20:38:31

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

I caught one in the cat self feeder once. I grabbed it by the tail and swung it around and slammed it to the ground. It didn't move so I went in the house to get the 12 ga and shot it point blank in the body. I have shot them in a live trap with a .22 in the head and they just hiss as you. I found out once when the conservation officer wasw showing animal skulls to the cub scouts I took to a meeting. The critters have a brain no bigger than the end of my pinkie. A pretty small target. I got one 2 weeks ago tonight when I came home after dark. It crossed the driveway in front of us, so I stopped and gave a flashlight to the wife and told her to keep an eye on it while I got the gun. It stopped under the flower box on the side of the deck and put up his last stand. By the way the wife was not keen on following the "big rat".

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jd b puller

11-26-2007 11:35:41

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

We had one of them critters here in NC last year. Just a little one, about 1/2 the size of a cat. My wife saw him out in the garage. When I went out she asked me to shoo him away so he could "find his family". He was backed into a corner, hiding behind a bunch of paint cans and what not. Wife saw him and thought he was cute, I gragged a broom and tried to get im out of the corner. Wife kept saying "don't hurt him, he's just a baby". About this time, he started smiling real big and biting at the broom stick.

Here's where the story changes. Wife saw all the teeth and the sudden change in demeaner and starts screaming "KILL IT!!!, KILL IT!!! They're tuff, but they can't swim underwater very long...

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rumplestiltskin

11-26-2007 11:17:04

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

I shot one last year after it decided to move into my chicken coop. Man, did that thing stink!

It seems like most of them become road pizza sooner or later.

Okay, speaking of opossums and stinky animals, a couple of dumb jokes:

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?

A: To show the opossum it could be done.

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Farmer A: "I once had a billy goat that was born without a nose."

Farmer B: "Without a nose?! How did he smell?"

Farmer A: "Awful!"

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Charles E. McNelly III

11-26-2007 10:13:33

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

Hi Gene, Can you say Bang Bang :)
Charles

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GeneMO

11-26-2007 21:10:25

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to Charles E. McNelly III, 11-26-2007 10:13:33

I guess I should have shot it, but had a .50 muzzleloader, wouldn't have been much left, I had hollowpoints in it!

Gene

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BOBM25

11-26-2007 08:53:16

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

We got a lot of them here in NW Ohio. I'm not sure if they have any natural predators here. All I could think of would be a wolf or maybe a fox. We don't have many of either of those. They're definately tough as nails. We had one slide down in a hopper wagon one time. Didn't want to shoot it for fear of putting a hole in the wagon. I won't elaborate on how we got him out. We call em "Grinners" because they're always smiling.

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Joe Evans

11-26-2007 04:59:47

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

Geez, possums are thick as flies around here in Central Ohio. Never had a close encounter with one though, but my mom tells a different story:

When I was an infant, Mom noticed some kind of crap on the floor (not mine ;)in the room where my crib was. (We were renting an old farmhouse while Dad was buidling a new house). The next day when I was napping, Mom went into my room and saw a possum under my crib! Well... all heck broke loose with her screaming and waking me up which brought the Old Man running in there. I guess he found a 2x4 and walloped the tar out that possum, then tossed his butt out the window. After bit, he went outside to dispose of the carcass. Guess what? That possum had come to and sauntered off. They're pretty tough buggers.

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Bus Driver

11-26-2007 04:56:13

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

The good part is that 'possums do not get rabies. Mammals get rabies, Opossums are marsupials. An attacking mammal might well have rabies. "Possums are cowards and will retreat if it is possible to do so. But any coward, if cornered, will panic. That is when they will kill the perceived threat. That goes for people, too. It is very dangerous to bully a coward.

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ryanroth

11-26-2007 07:02:50

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to Bus Driver, 11-26-2007 04:56:13

Not to be a critic, but marsupials are mammals. Just because they raise their babies in a pouch doesn't mean they aren't feeding them milk from mammary glands. Possums do get rabies, just uncommon. Not been reported in Indiana for a very long time. Here I can kill 3-4 a month in the barn.

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farmerweber in PA

11-25-2007 22:51:25

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

If those critters were bigger and a little faster they wouldbe the king of the woods.I've shot so many of them in fox traps years ago I quit counting them.We've got a dog that is just murder on them now(a husky)If they get where he can reach them,thats all she wrote.

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BL in GA

11-26-2007 05:41:14

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to farmerweber in PA, 11-25-2007 22:51:25

Around mid-west Georgia, the possums now have some competition, the ARMADILLOS are here!

We call 'em possum on the half shell.

The really can do a number on a yard, but the odd part is when about to be (humanely) crushed by a motor vehicle, they will sometimes jump straight up and totally destroy a grille!

Both are strange little critters, but the possum at least is still part of some folks "food chain" down here! Many are caught, penned up and fed for a while before eaten, but some are eaten "right after the kill!"

I'd have to be real hungry..... .....

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ddg

11-25-2007 21:15:22

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

I'm a train engineer by trade. (BNSF, KC- Wellington, KS) On a 450 mile round trip, I might run over a dozen or more possums walking down the rail, or eating another dead possum. We call them "flange oilers"

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chuck46

11-25-2007 20:41:12

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

Hi Gene, I get rid of everyone I can find, they carry a virus in their urine that is deadly to horses. Chuck

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ryanroth

11-26-2007 07:06:26

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to chuck46, 11-25-2007 20:41:12

Again with not being a critic, but it is not a virus, It is a protozoan called sarcocystis neurona. It is carried in their feces. Way off topic, so I won't go into any more details than that. Agree with killing them though. Very dangerous to horses.

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chuck46

11-26-2007 07:28:48

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to ryanroth, 11-26-2007 07:06:26

Hi Ryan, You are obviously more educated than I, thanks for the info. Chuck

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ryanroth

11-26-2007 07:30:56

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to chuck46, 11-26-2007 07:28:48

Don't usually try to correct people especially on tractors, but I am a vet, so I try to help inform people on animals.

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GeneMO

11-26-2007 09:07:54

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to ryanroth, 11-26-2007 07:30:56

Glad to hear you are a vet. At first I thought you were just a plain ole possum expert. My first cousin is a vet and I used to go with him some. Man does he have stories!

Gene

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Jim in NC

11-25-2007 19:33:36

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

If I saw one around here acting like that only one thing would cross my mind: rabies. There have been about 20 instances of rabies in my county alone this year and most of them have involved wild animals.

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GeneMO

11-25-2007 18:19:04

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

I find it odd some of you are saying you see two or three a year. We can see two or three a day! I think they are real hard on quail nests and other ground nesting birds. I go back and forth. For a while I kill everyone I see, then after a while I loose my zeal for whacking them and let them go for a year or so. I am trying to restore quail habitat and predators are a little part in why the quail dissappear.

Anyway, getting back to tractors, my close encounter sure interupted my Super H daydreaming.

Gene

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Jason1(Pa.)

11-25-2007 18:09:46

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

I came across one in the middle of the day once and you could tell it was sick. Its eyes were about gone and it had very little hair on it..It was staggering around. Thing came out from no where and scared me!! Needless to say I ran and got the gun and dug a hole and put it to rest.

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Hugh MacKay

11-25-2007 17:24:54

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

Gene: I encountered a possum, he was into a 20 lb. bag of apples I had left on my deck. He rather surprised me as I went out on the deck just at dawn, in a pair of shorts and slippers, and I sat down beside him before I noticed him. Their snarl is a lot worse than their bite, in fact I don't think they will bite unless very severly threatened. Then if you so much as touch them, they play dead.

Paul is correct, we have a lot of them here in Southern Ontario, I probably encounter 3-4 of them per year. I'd far sooner encounter a possum than a racoon or skunk.

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CNKS

11-25-2007 17:48:14

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to Hugh MacKay, 11-25-2007 17:24:54

One cold day several years ago I went into my garage and pulled open a drawer in my work bench. Inside was a possum trying to keep warm. Needless to say neither of us was glad to see the other. After I composed myself, I actually grabbed the thing and pulled it out. I'm usually dumb, but did not get bit, the possum was holding on for dear life with his claws, but eventually let go and ambled off. First one I had seen up close. Scared me almost as much as the snake I found in our outhouse years before that.

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I Wanna Farm it all

11-25-2007 17:07:09

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

saw a possem here once, it ate all my eggs and was getting ready for a chicken dinner. Lucky i had a pitchfork around. I hate the things.

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poogie

11-26-2007 03:45:41

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to I Wanna Farm it all, 11-25-2007 17:07:09

PETA!!! ????

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Yugrotcart

11-25-2007 16:57:59

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to GeneMO, 11-25-2007 16:51:01

We have them also here in Southern Ontario. Never seen a live one, always laying beside the road sleeping..... ..... ...

Paul

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Larke.

11-25-2007 17:01:13

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Re: Attacked by a possum in reply to Yugrotcart, 11-25-2007 16:57:59

They are ornery, especially in the Spring.

I see them every Spring eating the seeds that have fallen from the birdfeeder.. They hiss and let it be known that you are in their way.

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