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I have an Opossum in storage building (to get rid of)!

Your backyard is 1 foot wide and 5 feet long?

Ken

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Ken Olson
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I don't know about NYC but here in Delaware rabies is endemic and any one bitten by a wild animal or stray dog or cat is advised to tell the authorities. They will capture the animal and examine it but if the animal cannot be found the bitten person is advised to get the rabies vaccine. Happened to one of my wife's friends living in Pittsburgh who got scratched or bitten by a bat.

A few years ago, a nearby nature center had a caged raccoon found to be rabid and people there had to be vaccinated. Several people in a local development were bitten by a rabid fox and also got vaccinated.

Your cats should be vaccinated, particularly if you let them run outside.

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Frank

Opossum is correct. Might also mention that opossum and raccoon are best when roasted.

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Frank

Bow hunting near Punxsy I popped a couple of Phil's relatives. Taste like chicken.

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Frank

Looks like a foot six, and four foot two long.

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Stormin Mormon

I think both are correct.

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JAS

Judge Judy has a great reply when a plaintiff or defendant testify about what they think -- "I don't care what you think."

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Gordon Shumway

There are possums in NYC? I grew up around Troy and they were just something you read about or might see in a zoo. Well, there's everything else in the city, might as well have possums too. Are the armadillos there yet?

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rbowman

ditto

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JAS

Growing up here in central Ontario we never saw 'possum, but apparently they hitch-hiked up on trucks crossing the border - they hang on with their 4 paws and their prehensile tails - more with the tails in fact- and drop off on the road.

They don't over-winter well so they have not become terribly numerous

-commonest place to find them is dead on the road just down-road from a bump.

My brother has prodded quite a few off the undercarriage of his semi over the years. (used to do a lot of transcontinental runs - texas, georgia, Florida, Cali, etc to all over Canada.

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clare

Found a dead one one morning in our backyard, here in Toronto, a couple years ago.

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FrozenNorth

Good catch, too tired when I saw it to do simple math. But still damn small.

Ken

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Ken Olson

afaik I never gave one a ride. Looking for possums wasn't part of my daily equipment checks though. THe big thing when I was driving was fire ants. I you came out of Georgia they'd stop you at the port of entry, open the trailer doors, and look for ants. The theory was the ants would congregate at the doors for fresh air. That sounded lame to me. 53' of carpet stuffed in up to the roof is a lot of area for ants to hide.

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rbowman

I had around 15 2x4s, around 12 feet long, in the garage. I'm going to be moving in a few months so I put them out in front of the house the day before garbage pickup, and they all were gone a few hours later. That's the best way to recycle. In my neighborhood, if someone doesn't take whatever you put out, it really was crap.

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dgk

Yet another house built for Nippo-Americans. Lots of space too, for the children to play in. If it gets too overgrown, might I suggest fingernail cutters ? []'s

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Shadow

I liked that about NY too. LIved in an apartment so I didn't put trash out, but I took plenty in. One day I needed a yardstick and planned to buy one next time I was near a hardware store. Within an hour I found nice heavy wood one on a garbage can. I still have it.

Another time I was bicycle riding around Riis Park, the end of Flatbush Avenue. When I got back to King's Highway, I left the big streets and took small ones. Found a 9" TV on top of a garbage can. All I had was the little "luggage rack" they put on 10-speed bicycles. This one had a U piece that was spring-loaded, but still not enough. While I was looking at t he TV, the lady of the house came out with rope so I could tie the TV to my bike, and that way I got all the way back to Clinton Hill (just south of the Brooklyn Navy Yard)

She told me she thought it was just a tube, but -- and this was the only tv I've ever dealt with like this - it was just a fuse, even easier.

A couple years later, I was in the hospital to remove a bony growth on my arm, and I called the TV guy to rent a TV. He came up and said "You already have one." but it was faicing the guy on the other side of the room, away from me. The nice guy said I could come over any time I wanted and watch tv with him. ;-) So since I had to move my car to the other side of the street anyhow, I went home, got the little TV and a pair of pajamas and came back to the hospital.

I still have it, but haven't been using it.

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micky

Whereabouts in NYC do you live? If you give the address I'll drop by, but if you give only the gneneral area, my curiosity will be satisfied.

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micky

When we finally got a flat screen I put the old tube tv out on the curb.

Next morning there were two more with it. I kid you not.

Drove around the neighborhood, found somebody else with a tv, dumped all three by his curb when nobody was around.

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TimR

So two wrongs make a right?

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Scott Lurndal

Three lefts do.

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Stormin Mormon

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