Help! Possums!
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- 19 years ago
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Comments (44)Once when my kids were little my son came running outside and said Mommy there is a HUGH rat in your bedroom, now it being daylight I am thinking he just THINKS he sees something and it is the 'lighting' or something but NOOOO he INSISTED there is something in my bedroom. MY fiancee is about to leave so I mozey my keyster in the house to my bedroom and GOOD GRIEF IT'S A POSSUM IN MY ROOM! And it is on my dresser at the moment. I do a quick 180 and run out to chase SO down and tell him he better be getting his hinney in here to get this thing OUT of my bedroom. He gets the broom and had removed the screen from the bedroom window HOPING it will jump out, but nope, it turns ever so slowly and WALKS back across the dresser, onto the windowsill, onto the headboard of my bed and disappears! OMG WHERE DID THE CRITTER GO???? Albeit it was a baby BUT it WAS a possum none the less, turns out there is a hole in the floor under our bed the little critter crawled through to come in. A mama possum had set-up a home underneath the mobile home and had actually gotten into the walls and maybe the ceiling too, I heard noises there ALL the time. I kept telling him SOMETHING BIG was in the walls, ceiling, FLOOR, under the trailer and HE always said it was stray cats I KNEW with the size of the sound I kept hearing it wasn't a cat! At any rate when the baby possum made it's appearance he finally figured out that was the sound (the mama possum) I had been hearing, he patched the hole so no more would come in and when we moved out I am assuming mama possum and more babies lived there long after we did! I am SOOOO glad I am not the only one who had a possum INSIDE their home! I just thought it was CREEPY!!! It was a cute little baby, but NOT IN MY BEDROOM! And it darn near terrified my son, he really thought it was a LARGE rat...poor kid, guess I would have too at 6 years old! He really wasn't far off either huh? :) Fran...See MoreHelp! I trapped a possum
Comments (10)There isn't much you can do. It is illegal in Illinois to live trap and then release anyplace but your own property. You must be licensed to transport animals and release them in the forest preserve or in another neighborhood. I wouldn't even recommend putting it out for rabbits. We use a Havahart trap, but ONLY in our walkout basement, for the odd time when a chipmunk finds its way into the basement. Then we release it back into our yard. Of course the possum is angry. Possums are nocturnal and it's nearing 100 degrees in Illinois today. The poor thing doesn't have food or water and may die. If there is any way you can stand back and use something to open the trap, do it and do it NOW. Then stash the Havahart somewhere it can be used legally and safely -- inb your house. Sorry if my tone seems a bit impatient, but our next door neighbor trapped a raccoon last year and let it sit, crying and fighting the trap, until he found a convenient time to dispose of it. After two full days, I threatened to report him to the county department of animal control....See MoreHELP! I need the possum lady!
Comments (24)Well, I still have not caught the possum. Where I thought he was all day is not where he was, apparently. Carol Ann, you are being sooooooooooooooooooooooo bad! I cannot pick him up. I am afraid of him. And I bet he is every bit as afraid of me! So, I have the live trap set in the living room. Baited with little cat food and a piece of orange. I think they like oranges. At least, from the looks of my Satsuma at harvest time, they like oranges! I am going to Austin on Thursday to watch my sweet little Grand Daughter graduate from high school. (BooHoo, the baby is grown up too fast!) I might talk to some of those people at the rehab places about taking this one. He/she is not hurt tho, would it be better to just turn it loose? Marilyn, you are the one who does rehab with possums, aren't you? I appreciate all y'all's helpful advice. Kylie, stop laughing! Right now! Janie...See MoreI need possum help !!!!
Comments (19)It's midnight and just got back from New Orleans. MaryAnn, if you can just pick him up by his tail and carry him out or put him in a trash can and take him out, he won't bite you. Even if he should whip around and try, if you hold him out from you, he won't. I know you may not believe this, but wild possums will seldom bite unless they are very stressed. They will all open their mouth...that is just a possum's way...but it is a threat. I pick them up all the time, just by putting my hand around them like I would a kitten. Not on his neck...around his body. If you are afraid, I know you won't want to do that. Or, catch him in a Havahart and take him somewhere and release him. Preferably with a water source nearby...drainage ditch, pond, creek. A piece of banana is good bait for a possum. Keep in mind they can bite and it is a nasty bite, but they usually won't, and they don't carry rabies. (Big consolation.) :) I have 3 little possums loose in my house right now. I call them the Lost Boys. :)) They are using a litter box, so I haven't been too worried about them, but they only come out late at night....See More- 19 years ago
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