THERE'S NO LONGER A OPOSSUM IN MY GARAGE!!

[starleen2]

That stupid, ugly opossum was in my backyard last night!! I went outside to let the dog do it's business and something was in the in the flower bed by the door. I thought it was Jasmine, my neighbors cat until it popped out on the sidewalk.

That is the second time that's happened.

That damn opossum's days are numbered!!

Where there is one - there are three more lurking around

[CAJUN LADY]

Great!!!!!

[CAJUN LADY]

Last year it was coons but a county trapper came and removed 3 from the back yard for free.

I live in a subdivision....a subdivision, not acreage, a 1/4 acre lot in a subdivision.

I love wildlife - just not making its' home in my garage!

[Weirdnerd]

I had some raccoons get into my apartment, terrorized my cat, and ate her food, the first night I pummeled them with a broom, and took pictures during the repositioning, was a mom and three "babies", those things are huge, they came through the cat door, twice the same week, so I decided to make a trap, ....the trap works fine, I have caught my cat twice, ten squirrels, and two neighbours cats...but no raccoons yet...








this is my "coon trap", homemade, based on drawings from a 1885 " Industrial encyclopedia"

[CAJUN LADY]

Oooohhh myyyyy!! :o My problem is mild compared to yours!

Did you put marshmellows and fish oil in the trap? That's what the trapper put in ours - they love it.

[Weirdnerd]

I have put apples, but the squirrels love apples, tuna fish, but the cats love tuna, marshmallows end up covered in ants, I am thinking about using golf balls...but I am afraid of catching my neighbour...

[steve smoot]

Ah, the old OSB trap to catch that SOB...

[Weirdnerd]

I am a "conscious shopper" ( cheap old sod) and paying 90 bucks for a trap was out of the question, I had some plywood scraps, so I gave them some good use.

[Eunice]

Becca I have them in my back yard on occasion. Racoons and dee also. My 150 year farmhouse was in the country but now there are houses all around but the wildlife still come over the hill for the veggie gardens.
it drives my dogs crazy!
My biggest problem are my neigbors cats that still in my carport teasing my dogs

[CAJUN LADY]

I have put apples, but the squirrels love apples, tuna fish, but the cats love tuna, marshmallows end up covered in ants, I am thinking about using golf balls...but I am afraid of catching my neighbour... :lol:

[CAJUN LADY]

When I was a child my dad rescued a new born baby raccoon ("Coonie") when the mama was killed and we raised it. We have pictures of us bottle feeding it and holding it just like a baby, wrapped in a infant blanket and all.

Mom said it acted just like a cat, very tame and gentle with us but when it became full grown, she became "racist" and ran snarling at a delivery guy.
Daddy knew immediatly that it was time for it to find a new home and gave it to a wildlife ranger who knew of a park enclosure he could release it to.

No matter how tame we think a "wild animal" is, they are still wild.

We never saw that delivery guy again.

[Weirdnerd]

My wife keeps me busy bringing stray animals home to be "rescued", last adventure was three baby squirrels, last year, their mom was hawk lunch, and the babies left the nest, with barely any hair and their eyes barely open, was a five weeks ordeal of feeding them four times a day with a puppy bottle and dog formula, had them in a halfway hutch, when they were weaned, and left them free, they still come and eat from my hand once in a while.

[CAJUN LADY]

Squirrels are cute little tree rats. They are so plentiful in our yard. My son has a flying squirrel that will be a year old next month. He rescued it as a newborn when it and it's sibbling fell out of a tree.

The sibbling didn't make it but "Rocky" is doing great. I think Dusty said it's a "sugar squirrel" or something like that. It's very small and has beautiful coloring.

[Weirdnerd]

I like them, when I came to the US, I spent almost an hour videotaping them just to figure out their behaviour, my wife teases me, she says asking her about squirrels is like asking somebody in Paris about the pigeons.....