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

Jerry.Tan · 2015-02-10T09:58:52+00:00

I have an old trailer house that is for storage, but its in poor shape and I intend to demolish it this summer. Actually the roof is fine, but the crappy particle board floor is just falling apart. I'ne replaced parts of it over the years, but rather than constantly fixing that floor which seems to be an endless job, I just built a pole shed which will get a concrete floor. this summer. I ran out of decent weather last fall, and didn't get the shed finished. Anyhow, I went in the old trailer house to get some stuff, and expected to find some mice, which have done a lot of damage in there. But I was not expecting to come face to face to a hissing opossum. I can see there is another bad spot in the floor (hole), so I know how it got in, but before I nail something over that hole, I need to get the opossum out. This is a farm, so I can shoot it, but I'm not the best shot for one thing, and I only have a single shot 22. I could borrow a better gun, but I dont want to shoot inside the building, for several reasons. First I'll damage the stuff stored in there, second, there are aerosol cans of spray paint and other stuff that could explode if I hit one of them. Plus I'll be making more holes in the building. So, I'm looking for another method to get rid of this opossum. I'd like to do it as humanely as possible, but will do whatever I must, since it's already done a lot of damage by knocking things over and crapping on stuff. Any suggestions on what to use? Such as poison???? I do have a live trap (made for raccoons), so it's the right size. But I have no idea what to bait it with for an opossum. But I'd really prefer to use poison, because I dont really want to deal with a hissing critter in the trap, which I'll have to somehow kill anyhow. (There may be more than one of them too, but I did see one, and as soon as I did, I got the hell out of there). Just the thought of going in there to set a trap or something is making me uncomfortable. I'd...

Feb 10, 2015 47 Replies

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Shadow 11 years ago

They kill them at night, usually by biting their necks and drinking the blood. Sometimes a single opossum can kill half a dozen chickens in a night. []'s

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rbowman 11 years ago

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Faster than a weasel?

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dgk 11 years ago

When I was still in high school, for some anti-drug lecture they passed around a plate with two joints on it. When it came back, there were three.

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dgk 11 years ago

Frank Zappa used it to raise dental floss.

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dgk 11 years ago

Flushing. We're maybe 10 blocks from a cemetary so rumor has it that the critters live there and come by to visit us.

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micky 11 years ago

I stayed in Flushing the last time I was in NY.

At the Y.

And 35 years ago, two of my neighbors in the building in Brooklyn moved to a retirement home in Flushing. It might have had a religious affiliation. They were both old and I thought they were just roommates, but it turned out that one of them was the nurse for the other, and probably younger, but they both grew older together.

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Ameri-Clean 11 years ago

When we had raccoons in the ceiling above our lower level family room, the town animal control officer told us to play loud Spanish music to drive them out. It worked, next day they were gone. Should work for possums too.

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