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?
|
| 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.
|
| 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.
|
| Rod new project; what makes possums uncomfortable, or how to incite an
angry
| daschaund to spend his life in the attic...
|
| Cheers,
|
| 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

How do I Remove Possums
 

Jock wrote:

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

With apologies to the Bee Gees:

Well, you can tell by the way I use your walls,
I'm a possum, man: no time to fall.
Music loud and fluoros warm,
I've been kicked around since I was born.
And now it's all right. It's OK.
And you may try another way.
We can try to understand
the possum's bad effect on man.

Whether you're a possum or whether you're a person,
you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
Feel the ceilin' breakin' and everybody shakin',
and we're possums alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, possum's alive, stayin' alive.
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive.

Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah.
Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah. Stayin' alive.

Sigh... so much time... so little to do...


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Trish {|:-}
Newcastle, NSW, Australia

How do I Remove Possums
 

"Trish Brown" wrote in message
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| Jock wrote:
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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
|
| With apologies to the Bee Gees:
|
| Well, you can tell by the way I use your walls,
| I'm a possum, man: no time to fall.
| Music loud and fluoros warm,
| I've been kicked around since I was born.
| And now it's all right. It's OK.
| And you may try another way.
| We can try to understand
| the possum's bad effect on man.
|
| Whether you're a possum or whether you're a person,
| you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.
| Feel the ceilin' breakin' and everybody shakin',
| and we're possums alive, stayin' alive.
| Ah, ha, ha, ha, possum's alive, stayin' alive.
| Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive.
|
| Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.
| Somebody help me, yeah.
| Life goin' nowhere. Somebody help me.
| Somebody help me, yeah. Stayin' alive.
|
| Sigh... so much time... so little to do...
|
|
| --
| Trish {|:-}
| Newcastle, NSW, Australia

That's a definite keeper.
LOL
Jock

How do I Remove Possums
 

Hi All
About the possums. As a wildlife carer i would beg you please not to
use anything toxic ie mortien,rat bait,many other things designed to
"harmlessly" remove wildlife, they ALL kill.
The best methods to remove a
Mothball in containers with ventilated lids so possum cannot access
it. Do not mix camphor and naphthaleen ( toxic fumes) but 1 or the
other work great. THEN repair holes or remove branches to access roof
within 24hours 48 at the most or they will be back.

Relocation is not the answer always either because as an extreemly
teritorial animal you empty out a territory there will ALWAYS be
someone else to move in, they may be meaner and badder. Better the
devil you know i reckon!

Replace some of their habitat, we removed it where else are they going
to live? Hang a possum box, if you want a design there is a good one
on the NSW national parks site. http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au

Lights in the ceiling work short term.

But above all make it more pleasant for them outside, they only adapt
because they have to.

They are coming into the breeding season again they are going to be
looking for places to nest, i removed 3 from in a chimney yesterday.
Don't use rat poisons the joeys ingest this also and they die
painfully from internal bleeding over days along side mum, and this is
an extremely awful thing to have to experience.

Enjoy our wildlife, it is an extremely unique thing to experience up
close. How many other countries do you think you could have such a
diverse and unusual combination of fauna within our cities. Don't take
it for granted, It may not always be there!

How do I Remove Possums
 

POSSUM RELLANT

1 cup human urine
1 cup household ammonia
4.5 litres of water

Spray this mix all around where the possums are being a problem.

OTHER POSSUM CONTROL SUGGESTION:

Use 'Quassia chips' should be available from agricultural stores that supply
the fruit growers.

Mix up a thick past of the hottest chillies you can find daub this along
branches/fences wher the possums walk, i have been told this causes them
only agitation but enough that they don't want to go that way again.





Got this off "len gardener web site " very good site for natural remadies

How do I Remove Possums
 

POSSUM RELLANT

1 cup human urine
1 cup household ammonia
4.5 litres of water

Spray this mix all around where the possums are being a problem.

OTHER POSSUM CONTROL SUGGESTION:

Use 'Quassia chips' should be available from agricultural stores that supply
the fruit growers.

Mix up a thick past of the hottest chillies you can find daub this along
branches/fences wher the possums walk, i have been told this causes them
only agitation but enough that they don't want to go that way again.





Got this off "len gardener web site " very good site for natural remadies

How do I Remove Possums
 

here is a link to the nsw parks & wildlife service they ahve some
ideas on control of wildlife:

http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/...aving+troubles

len

snipped
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happy gardening
'it works for me it could work for you,'

"in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/

How do I Remove Possums
 

here is a link to the nsw parks & wildlife service they ahve some
ideas on control of wildlife:

http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/...aving+troubles

len

snipped
--
happy gardening
'it works for me it could work for you,'

"in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/

How do I Remove Possums
 

Not exactly on the subject, but does anyone know how to stop possums eating

rose leaves?

Angela Byrnes wrote:

Hi All

I am hoping someone out there knows how to get possums out of the roof.

It is getting very smelly and noisy.

Thanks in advance

Bobby

How do I Remove Possums
 

Buy some "Poss-off"
It works realy well
"len gardener" wrote in message
...
here is a link to the nsw parks & wildlife service they ahve some
ideas on control of wildlife:

http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/...aving+troubles

len

snipped
--
happy gardening
'it works for me it could work for you,'

"in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the
environment
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/

How do I Remove Possums
 

"Fitz-Gerald Mob" wrote in message
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Not exactly on the subject, but does anyone know how to stop possums
eating

rose leaves?

Angela Byrnes wrote:

Hi All

I am hoping someone out there knows how to get possums out of the roof.

It is getting very smelly and noisy.

Bobby


I went to the local supermarket to see if they stocked some sort of spray
for getting rid of cats/dogs.

I came across one called "Poss Off"........... just for possums. :-)

Raelene
xxx