Possum In The Garage

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So two days ago I'm driving home and get a text from my wife "WTF!" and I open it and there is a picture of a possum in my garage. So I try to shoo him out with a broom but he won't budge so I took one of those graber things used to get things off high shelves, grabbed him by the neck and drug him out and tossed him into a vacant lot thinking he would be gone for good.

Yesterday I come home the garage opens and there are things on the floor that shouldn't be there so I'm suspicious, do a search and find nothing so I clean up and forget about it. This morning I go into the garage and more stuff is on the floor and I know this isn't random and something is still in there. So I start tearing the garage apart and I mean everything off shelves, all around the hot water heater, Christmas wreaths hanging on the wall come down so basically like the FBI came in and did a drug search (note I have to clean this up when I get home today).

I find nothing but a pee spot and one dried turd. My house is new construction and there literally isn't anywhere the bastard could get in unless the garage door was open (which is a possibility of how he got in, note I now believe two got in) and nowhere to get in between the walls. The only thing I can figure is that when I was checking out the items on the floor this morning he got out when the garage door was open. When I get home I'm going to put everything up and leave the garage open for a long time and once I close it up I'll put some dog food out and see if it is still there in the morning. If not I'll buy a trap and get the fucker and he is dead. The first one I let live but this bastard has caused me a lot of work and aggravation so he must die.

Anyone have additional suggestions I am up for it.

@dbldwn711 if you want to come over and hang out in my garage feel free I know how you love the forest creatures.
 
my ex father in law once unloaded a clip into his garage, drunk and in the dark, to kill a woodchuck.

looked like a murder scene when we turned the lights on.
 
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Rock Strongo said:
my ex father in law once unloaded a clip into his garage, drunk and in the dark, to kill a woodchuck.

looked like a murder scene when we turned the lights on.
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He wasn't this guy was he?

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Smoke em out
 
steelerssb said:
He wasn't this guy was he?

nypost.com

Man burns down shed trying to clean cobwebs with blowtorch

He should’ve called an exterminator. A 74-year-old man burned down his Iredell, N.C., shed with a blowtorch while trying to clean unwanted cobwebs Wednesday afternoon, according to the States…
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lmao

no

but, the best part of that night was when he put another clip in, went on the back porch, and unloaded it into the sky. he then made us turn the lights off and get on the floor when the cops drove by.

he did this for fun.

my father in law.
 
I hate possums. One of the few animals that I won't brake or swerve to avoid with my car.
 
@beardown07 see, everyone uses possum, you’re the only hifalutin prick that says “opossum”.

But, for the OP, live trap and release.

Possums eat a shit ton of ticks, and nothing is more worthless than ticks
 
Just wait it out. Those giant rats only live like 1 or 2 years. They also eat a lot of bugs.
 
They do eat lots of ticks. I've never had a problem with them. They've been on the deck before and they are tough to get them to move at times.
Catch and release is both good and bad. It's good because you allow it to live. It's bad for 2 reasons:
You make it someone else's problem
If it is diseased you are helping spread it to other areas.
 
We had a rat come up our basement toilet one time. City was doing some sewer work.

It was hiding in my home office behind the desk.

I caught it with a 3 iron and an empty cat litter bucket. Slapped the lid on and released it in my back yard.

No critters were harmed in this sequence.
 
THIS is why I believe in the second amendment. Skip the trap and exercise your constitutional rights.
 
Myles said:
They do eat lots of ticks. I've never had a problem with them. They've been on the deck before and they are tough to get them to move at times.
Catch and release is both good and bad. It's good because you allow it to live. It's bad for 2 reasons:
You make it someone else's problem
If it is diseased you are helping spread it to other areas.
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Possums are highly resistant to rabies.

And guinea fowl are the only more effective animals at eating ticks, but they’re obnoxiously loud
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
@beardown07 see, everyone uses possum, you’re the only hifalutin prick that says “opossum”.

But, for the OP, live trap and release.

Possums eat a shit ton of ticks, and nothing is more worthless than ticks
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You read the part where I had to tear my garage apart looking for it right?

That can't go unpunished.
 
Wild Turkey said:
You read the part where I had to tear my garage apart looking for it right?

That can't go unpunished.
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You let it your garage.

I’ve hunted my entire life, but two animals I won’t kill are possums and any non venomous snake
 
Same exact thing happened to my Dad.

He has a very cluttered garage and a possum kept getting into it, destroying big bags of dog food, shitting everywhere, etc.

So he goes out one night and comes face to face with it. Unloads a couple of rounds from a .410 and kills it.

Almost immediately, about a dozen hideous little babies are crawling all over the mother. His skin was crawling for a week. he had to keep shooting til all movement stopped and then get them all out of his garage.
 
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