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Mr Opossum this is war

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john in la

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What part of in La do you not understand
I can pretty much put up with a Opossum until they find the cat food on the porch.
Yea they get a few eggs (I could not find anyway) from a chicken that might start a nest out in the yard rather than using the nest box.
But its a good trade off since they eat so many other things like;
venomous snakes
mice
snails and slugs
carrion
and are pretty much a tick vacuum.
All this and you rarely see them as they are most active at night.

But last night I was coming in from the shed and noticed something in my fig tree.
Dang opossum was in the tree eating all my figs.
Bad enough the birds steal their share now the opossum is stealing what the birds left.

Sharing the fruits of my labor; be it a garden or fruit trees; with the wildlife is the hardest part of gardening.
 
Forgot the picture.
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I have them and raccoons to boot. Got rid of one racoon this morning since it got caight in the trap I have for them
 
I hear you, just won my war against the woodchuck invasion, killed the 7th one last evening. Don't even have to discard them I have a grey fox comes out around 830pm and takes the dead ones away. Between all the woodchucks and squirrels I've laid out for him he must think he is at Hometown Buffet.
Chuck
 
My birds don't leave any for the possums. I looked out back yesterday morning and the entire fig tree was shaking. Have you ever seen a flock of Cedar Waxwings hit a berry-bearing tree or bush? That's what it reminded me of---feathered piranhas.
 
Now that's a bunch of 410 shells.

When small, my Father bought my "first gun" a savage 410. He did not tell me that it was, as Tennessee Ernie said, "choked down like a rifle."

I tried to use it to hunt rabbits.

My Father bought #7 shells for me, probably because he thought I could not cause much damaage with bird loads.

I could not hit (or at least kill) anything.

Several years later, I went rabbit hunting with a HS friend of mine who loaned me a Browing 12 ga auto loader. I bagged my first rabbit that day, and my second, and my third.

This is how one learns.

Dean
 
Up here in Iowa this is the time of year when the young animals are sent on their journey into the big old world and they aren't quite as cautious as their elders. Since I don't have a dog anymore I am starting to see them around during the daytime. I have seen only two woodchucks on this farm in my life. The second one I saw the other day and I dispatched it. Yesterday I ended a young coon's journey. Took care of a skunk and it's little ones a few seeks ago. When I had the chocolate Lab he kept those vermin away but he's gone now so the creatures are starting to show up.
 
I had two live traps set and when I went out to the farm in the morning a couple weeks ago, no traps. Looked around and the larger trap was over in the trees about 100 feet away with a small raccoon inside. Looked all over for the second trap but could not locate it. As I had a trail camera pointed at the sets I took the card out and went home to look at pictures on computer. That mother raccoon was raising particular heck with my traps when her little ones were inside. That evening I went back and did a more complete search. I found a trail going into a wheat field. Found a couple pieces of the trap and it didn't do the wheat much good either. That part of the field had suffered considerable lodging from a previous storm already. There at the end of the trail was my trap with the young raccoon in it. I sure didn't want that trap running through the combine so was relieved to find it. If it had gone in the corn I doubt I would have found it. I chain them down now.
 
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