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Old 19-03-2004, 12:09 AM
Jock
 
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Default How do I Remove Possums


"Rod Out back" wrote in message
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| "Trish Brown" wrote in message
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| I wonder if you could run a speaker wire up into your roof cavity,
install
| a Big
| Mother speaker and play a tape of a growling dog? Or, maybe, the sound
of
| a
| wedge-tailed eagle? (I'm serious! Really!) Or white noise? Or maybe
| Aerosmith in
| concert would do the job?
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| Surely if it were in the roof cavity, loud noise wouldn't bother *you*,
| but it
| might deter the possums? Might be worth a try anyway...?
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| Trish {|:-}
| Newcastle, NSW, Australia
| Trish,
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| I like the idea, but I keep thinking of those trials they keep doing to
| reduce the black spots on country roads where kangaroos keep getting hit
by
| cars. They have tried randomly flashing lights, closely spaced
guide-posts,
| and I think a noise-maker, and the kangaroos still keep getting hit. I
| understand a lot of our more tenacious (and possums would surely rate in
| this category) will blank out noise that they dont see as immediate
threats.
| They get used to it very quickly.
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| That said, I do think the solution is something like noise, or something
| else that makes them uncomfortable, without turning the house into a
| disaster zone.
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| Rod new project; what makes possums uncomfortable, or how to incite an
angry
| daschaund to spend his life in the attic...
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| Cheers,
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| Rod.......Out Back
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They say loud music in the roof in the day time helps to make it not
attractive. A couple of fluoro lights too. - though there's no need to do
the flashing light tiles ala Bee Gees, John Travolta & SNF..
Jock