On 2016-07-28 8:53 AM, nancy young wrote:
> On 7/27/2016 2:35 PM, Cheri wrote:
>>
>> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 7/27/2016 1:56 PM, Gary wrote:
>>>
>>>> Possums are super meek and friendly.
>>>
>>> I'm guessing you never caught one in a Havaheart trap.
>>>
>>> Think pointy teeth and hissing fury. Scared the hell out
>>> of me.
>
>> Yes, you are so right. I have used my Havaheart trap for possum, but
>> haven't had to in the past few years, thankfully.
>
> Our goal was to catch a groundhog. I don't want one of those in
> my yard, they can do a number on your pool.
>
> Did not expect to find a possum. I was afraid to open the
> thing to let it out, would it attack me? I have a horror of
> having to get rabies shots. Then it was in a sunny spot and it
> was hot so I wanted to cover it.
>
> It was a mess. And I learned that they aren't always shy.
>


Opossums were all but unheard of around here until about 40 years ago.
One scared the bejeepers out of me when I opened up the barn after it
had been closed up all winter. I slid the door open and say the biggest
damned rat ever and if it had been a rat and was still alive it could
have jumped up and bit my head off. As it turned out. It was a dead
opossum.

I have only seen two live opossums here. It was rooting around under the
bird feeder and it put on a pretty good show when I approached it. The
second one was crossing the road while I was on my way home late one
night. The road was covered with fresh snow. I braked to let him cross.
He made it to the other lane. Unfortunately, when I hit the brakes the
back end of my pickup swung to the left. I missed him with the front
tires, but the back tire got him. I do see a lot of opossum road kill.