According to what I've read, possoms do not carry rabies or distemper and
their favorite food is slugs. You might want to pick on someone you own
size next time.

We had one that took up residence in our garage under a staircase. At
certain points it stunk in the house from the possom. I checked it out
under the staircase and the female was carrying a load of babies on its
back. I screamed at it for a few minutes. It moved to quieter housing
later that night. A few months later I pulled out all of the insulation to
check for stains on the wood that I planned to treat with bleach. No signs
of any stains what so ever. It certainly smelled but I have no idea what
from. It apparently cleaned up after itself and babies.


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On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:31:55 -0500, "Frank"
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I have a possum in my garage that apparently does not like my free lunch.
I
tried peanuts, peanut butter tomatoes Kitty treats to no end. Seems he/she
would rather chew on my garage door bottom. Any Ideas on how to catch or
destroy this critter?
Frank


Any 22 caliber rifle or handgun will get rid of them quickly. I live
in the country and shoot them all the time. They are slow and easy to
shoot. I need to warn you though. Do not just shoot them once.
Those things are very hardy. I've shot them right in the head and
found them still moving an hour later. Even though they are
disgusting worthless rodents that likely carry disease, I still dont
like to see any critter suffer. So, blast about 5 shells into them
and be sure they're dead. Once they've been shot, it's best to put a
gew more shells right between their eyes. I'm not joking about being
hardy. I once shot one in the side, it fell over and kept moving. I
did not have any more 22 shells handy so stabbed a manure fork thru
it. It still did not die, so I drove over it with my truck four
times. I could not believe that it still walked away and crawled
under a firewood pile, which I found from the trail of blood. That's
when I went over to my neighbor and got some more 22 shells. I
emptied 6 rounds in it before it was dead.

They are some of the most disgusting animals around. Basically giant
rats. I tolerate the coons and even the shunks around here, but
possums die as fast as I can blast them. For some reason they like to
hang out right by my front door too, so I always keep my rifle by that
door.