I have possums in my yard which scare Me and my dog when I let her out at night! It causes such a ruckus? My dog got in a fight with one the other night.Can they bite and is the bite harmful to my dog? thanks for your help
2006-09-22 03:56:11 · 10 answers · asked by luvpatch 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Please don't poison them, its a food chain problem...
Contact your local animal control for some traps. Ask if they will come pick up the traps once the possoms are in them.
They're very difficult to get rid of. And unfortunately killing them is about the only way you can know they won't be back. Since they're a "rodent", your exterminator won't help...
2006-09-22 04:06:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't have possums in my area, but I imagine they aren't much different than squirrels or raccoons or skunks.
Possums are night animals, so you could try to drop a stink bomb in their den just after sunset; they'll have to find a new place
They probably do bite, and their bite would be as dangerous as any other mammal; ie. potentially deadly/costly
I'd probably see about borrowing a barn cat. Bring it to the yard at sunset and show it the possum den. Likely they'll be scattered in no time. Cats are the best way to keep these varmints vamoosed. But it has to be a hunter; practically wild
2006-09-22 04:11:04 · answer #2 · answered by soobee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have anything other than small dogs, the possum wants little to do with it and will leave on his own volition. Don't poison them or you will end up poisoning your dogs. They are there to get into your garden, into fruit trees, or into your garbage. Once their food supply is gone, they will be gone.
Can they bite, yes, and their teeth are like long strong needles.
Of course you can cook them and eat them. For that you need to catch them in a have a heart trap, put them in a cage, and feed tehm on house scraps, veggies, etc., for a couple of weeks, knock them in the head, or head shoot them, skin them and clean out their innards, wash them down well, put them in an oven with sweet potatoes. There is a lot of grease.
2006-09-22 08:20:00 · answer #3 · answered by Polyhistor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You probably have some fruit trees that are attracting them. Tie a teddy bear in the areas where they are been seen - it will scare them off in an environmentally friendly way.
2006-09-22 04:04:22 · answer #4 · answered by rumplestiltskin12357 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are two ways fox urine will keep them away for awile the second is get a have a heart trap put a peanut in it you will catch one a nite a relocate the far away 5 miles or more from your house
2006-09-22 04:17:20 · answer #5 · answered by high1315 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would totally ask the neighbors to move but I would ask the chickens to stay. I like chickens and, when I started writing this, I thought something funny would come out. I am as disappointed as you are.
2016-03-27 02:25:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shoot the oppossum right between the eyes, that'll get rid of 'em! I know it sounds horrible, but it works! You don't want your dog to get all tore up, do you? Think of that dog as your child...you'd do anything to protect him, right?
2006-09-22 03:59:02 · answer #7 · answered by Shining Ray of Light 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spread some mothballs around, they hate that smell, that will make them move somewhere else.
2006-09-22 04:03:21 · answer #8 · answered by Whoa_Phat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you called the animal control center?
2006-09-22 04:06:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all depends where you live, where I live they are a protected species
2006-09-22 04:02:15 · answer #10 · answered by di s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋