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Old 16-03-2004, 07:10 AM
M. Atta
 
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Default How do I Remove Possums

What about a few boxs of moth balls

"Jock" wrote in message
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bzzzt. Not nice at all.
Jock
"M. Atta" wrote in message
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| Ok maybe not a good idea...
| What about a couple of cans of Mortein Bomb up there which you use to
| fumigate small rooms/sheds
| The gas might send them packing as smoke from a bush fire would.
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| "Jock" wrote in message
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| "Rod Out back" wrote in message
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| | "Jock" wrote in message
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| | "Ken Oaf" wrote in message
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| | | On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:33:18 +0800, "M. Atta"
wrote:
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| | | Send a ferret up there...problem solved
| | | Not sure where can borrow one from however......
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| | | A brushtail possum would do a ferret.
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| | I have to agree. They have significant claws and the most
impressive
| | array
| | of teeth I have seen so close up - well, but for the M.I.L. .
| Definitely
| | better covered in fur too. By the time the ferret got through the
| fur,
| | the
| | Possum would have shredded it's stinking backside.
| | Jock
| |
| | It amuses me that the cute, cuddly, possum on the shelf in the

corner
of
| the
| | back shed suddenly becomes a hissing multiclawed beast with big

bitey
| teeth
| | the minute you think you might grab him to have a look. It is only

at
| this
| | point people realise how many claws they have, and how nasty those
claws
| | are.
| | Years ago we were in the stock-feed storage room of a neighbour. He
| used
| to
| | keep a number of cats around to keep mouse numbers down. This day

we
| were
| | checking out the new apprentice (kitten) mouser, who was pretty
excited
| | about his new job. Knowing a mother possum & infant lived on some

old
| doors
| | up in the rafters of the shed, we hoisted the apprentice mouser up
onto
| the
| | far end of the doors. Little kitten looks around with much

interest,
| and
| | suddenly sets sight of the largest, angriest mouse with the largest
| claws
| he
| | has ever seen! Instant puffball from the kitten, and you could see
his
| | brain crunching the numbers, and deciding he might be in for a short
| life
| | this time around. Suddenly, all his interest was in finding a quick
exit
| | down right away. Pressing business elsewhere.
| |
| | We bought him back down to ground level before Mrs Possum ate him

for
| lunch.
| | It took the kitten about half an hour to calm down, and he kept
looking
| back
| | up where he had seen the mouse from hell and hissing...We probably
gave
| him
| | nightmares for the rest of his life.
| | My few experiences with handling possums make me damn certain I will
| leave
| | such folly to someone with far less experience about bitey
things....or
| a
| | lot better handling equipment.
| |
| | Cheers,
| |
| | Rod.......Out Back
| |
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|
| LOL.
| I had the same with a possum here I had excluded from the roof. It

was
| daylight & it was in the deep gutter hiding for the day. I went up

the
| ladder with gloves on to remove it from the gutter. As I held it's

tail
| in
| 1 glove and started to pull it back, it turned over onto it's back and
| gave
| me a little reminder of how many things it had to shred, bite and maim
me
| with.
| I let go and left it to the gutter. 'OK, enjoy the gutter!!!''
| Serious respect.
| Jock
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