Possum In The Garage

HammerDown said:
You have to know when it's safe to eat them and you have to be able to dress them efficiently from what I understand?
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Yeah, there’s months out of the year you can’t eat them, but there’s a squirrel season in the go zone.

But squirrels are incredibly easy to clean.
 
HammerDown said:
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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damn fuck im eating steak right now
 
HammerDown said:
You have to know when it's safe to eat them and you have to be able to dress them efficiently from what I understand?
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When I've had them you just cut the legs off and chicken fried them. It wasn't that hard and it isn't something to write home about.
 
Illustrious Potentate said:
The fuckers aren’t speed demons and play dead when threatened. It probably came through the doggie door because you’re too lazy to get up and let your dog in and out
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Opossums play dead? Who knew ?
 
Wild Turkey said:
When I've had them you just cut the legs off and chicken fried them. It wasn't that hard and it isn't something to write home about.
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I never even thought about just doing that. I was always so intimidated by the guts and shit. I was picturing cleaning them up and splaying the little bastard on a grill, with a bunch of good meat in the breast n shit.

We're talking about in a survival situation, not eating them because they're good.
 
Dole ver 2.0 said:
How about:

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sick puke GIF
 
Wild Turkey said:
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.
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If you set out any kind of dog food you'll never get rid of that varmint. That's why he keeps coming back. He's found a food source and he will keep coming back until it no longer exists. My In-Laws had Opossums, Raccoons, Skunks, you name it, and they were basically ripping into the garbage in their garage looking for it. One can of radiator fluid was busted into by them. Get a cage-trap and get rid of the food sources. That's your best option.
 
douggie said:
If you set out any kind of dog food you'll never get rid of that varmint. That's why he keeps coming back. He's found a food source and he will keep coming back until it no longer exists. My In-Laws had Opossums, Raccoons, Skunks, you name it, and they were basically ripping into the garbage in their garage looking for it. One can of radiator fluid was busted into by them. Get a cage-trap and get rid of the food sources. That's your best option.
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Yep, give all of the critters an antifreeze cocktail. That'll get rid of them :beer2: :cool:
 
HammerDown said:
I never even thought about just doing that. I was always so intimidated by the guts and shit. I was picturing cleaning them up and splaying the little bastard on a grill, with a bunch of good meat in the breast n shit.
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You certainly wouldn't like field dressing a big game animal then. :dhd:
 
Time to burn that house down. Take anything with sentimental value and file an insurance claim on the rest.
 
Open the garage door. It'll leave.
 
ITT I learned:

A possum is smarter than a wild turkey
 
HammerDown said:
I never even thought about just doing that. I was always so intimidated by the guts and shit. I was picturing cleaning them up and splaying the little bastard on a grill, with a bunch of good meat in the breast n shit.

We're talking about in a survival situation, not eating them because they're good.
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What I was told is that all the meat is in the legs/thighs and it isn't worth the effort going after anything else.
 
douggie said:
If you set out any kind of dog food you'll never get rid of that varmint. That's why he keeps coming back. He's found a food source and he will keep coming back until it no longer exists. My In-Laws had Opossums, Raccoons, Skunks, you name it, and they were basically ripping into the garbage in their garage looking for it. One can of radiator fluid was busted into by them. Get a cage-trap and get rid of the food sources. That's your best option.
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There really isn't any food source in there. I'm putting some in there tonight (like 5 pieces) to see if he is still there.
 
HammerDown said:
I walked over and told the teachers I had a big snake
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I bet at least more than one teacher was disappointed when they found out what you really meant
 
douggie said:
If you set out any kind of dog food you'll never get rid of that varmint.
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when the daughter was younger,
she raised meat rabbits for show -
one evening she went out to feed the rabbits,
and there was a big ol possum
on top of the pens,
with his rack of teeth showin -
she wouldn't go out to feed after dark
for quite a while after that -
 
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