i feel like such a redneck!

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 4:18pm

i seriously don't know anyone else who's ever opened the bathroom door to find this XD

and apparently everyone on facebook has increadibly passionate opinions about possums... i've gotten everything from "spawn of satan" to "i want to take it home and love it"

and to think... last november, we had an adventure with a racoon living in the shed.

Updated On: 11/18/09 at 04:18 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 4:26pm

I know that if I had opened the door to find that I would have shrieked like a little girl.

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 4:34pm

I'd be okay with finding a red X. I wouldn't know what it means, but...

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 4:34pm

we've been trying to catch it for over an hour!

my brother is "helping" us by yelling "get out of my house!" at it.

all i can think of is the simpson's episode where homer learned to drive a monorail, and there was a family of possums in the closet.
"i call the big one 'bitey'"

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 4:34pm

A possom came very close to me on a city street and I literally ran from it screaming (even though it wasn't even coming at me). Freaked me out to walk that way for a long time.

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 4:38pm

Ha. My mom has a squirrel feeder outside of her house. She loves the squirrels it attracts, tolerates the raccoons it attracts, but whenever a possum shows up, she goes outside and chases it away. I guess they just doesn't quite measure up to her required cuteness threshold.

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 4:39pm

i think i have the world's laziest cat. although i'm glad he didn't go up to it, because i'm not sure who would destroy who.

[clever name]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 4:39pm

We had a possum in the bedroom once. We threw a blanket over it, wrapped it up, and brought it outside. When we unwrapped it we thought it was dead. But then all of a sudden it just jumped up real fast and ran away! It was "playing possum" lol

good luck !

[Weez]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 4:41pm

I love possums! Basically, if it's a mammal (or reptile, amphibian, bird, fish, arthropod, whatever) and not a person, I think it's awesome.

I like clever's blanket idea; give it a shot, and let us know if you end up with a possum-free bathroom!

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 4:41pm

we're been trying the "throw a bucket over and and then run around and yell when you miss" method of pest control.

edit: holy jesus we tryed to throw a towel ovewr it and it hissed at us O_O

Updated On: 11/18/09 at 04:41 PM

[Biff AKA Levi]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 4:46pm

If you're "such a redneck", where's the .22?

Shoot its brains all over the tile. That'll teach it!

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 4:48pm

Grammar, darling, grammar. The proper phrase is "That'll LEARN it."

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 4:51pm

we've had to stop my brother from going at it with a bb gun.

we just waved a broom at it foolishly.

i should also mention that the only reason i went into the bathroom is because our dog, cody, was going crazy and barking at the bathroom door. i was expecting to find a mouse.

Updated On: 11/18/09 at 04:51 PM

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 4:58pm

"LARN IT", Calvin, "That'll LARN it!" God, it's like you've never even BEEN to Texas.

Oh, I'm quite familiar with possum run-ins. At my last apartment in Houston, I had nightly visits on my patio of raccoons, armadillos and possums (and this was in Memorial off Gessner and Westheimer, not out in the boonies). If you get a possum that's not too mangy, they're sort of cute...until they hiss. Then they really do sound like the Devil's companion. Those stupid sugar gliders are like that, too. I thought they were adorable until one of them made that nasty weird chattering sound. Anything that makes a sound like that is NOT a pet. It is vermin.

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 5:06pm

i actually didn't hear anything when it hissed... maybe it didn't hiss and was just showing its teeth. either way, it was pissed off.

we get alot of racoons and skunks on the back deck, and we even came home to find a squirrel perched on our living room clock once, but this is the first time we've ever had a possum, indoors or out.

my dad closed the bathroom door and we are apparently pretending there is no possum in the bathroom, or that we even have a downstairs bathroom, right now.

although we think we know how it got in... there's a nice gap under the bathroom radiator that leads directly to the crawl space under the den.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 5:10pm

I sincerely hope you have an upstairs bathroom.

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 5:13pm

lol we do.

my dad is calling stores looking for a "have-a-heart" trap. we strongly believe in the rights of possibly rabid possums in this house.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 5:23pm

I think it's adorable. I've never actually seen a living possum before. Where I come from I've only seen them in half scattered on either side of the road.

[Craww]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 5:40pm

Well. That one's almost cute. But, yeah, possums generally gross me out. Raccoons are cuter, but I'm more scared of them because of their semi-opposable thumbs. CRAFTY.

Besides, I got you beat on redneck. We dealt with possums crawling into the heating vents of our trailer. (And dying, of course. )

[Marianne2]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 5:43pm

They're kind of cute. I hate squirrels. One jumped out of a trash can almost at me and my sister once. And then they were all over my college campus being creepy.

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 5:45pm

the door is still closed and it's still in there XD

i can't believe i'm saying this, but the picture actually doesn't do it justice... i took it on my phone... it's alot cuter in real life... when it's mouth is closed and it's not showing me nasty teeth.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 5:50pm

I hate squirrels. One jumped out of a trash can almost at me and my sister once. And then they were all over my college campus being creepy.

ME TOO!!!! HATE THEM!!! One night I came home late and had to park on the side street of my old apartment building and cut through the lawn and I SWEAR about 15 squirrels surrounded me chattering away. I had to make a mad run for it to get out of there.

Of course I may have just been drunk.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 6:01pm

Nah, that sounds about right. LOL! One kept staring at me on the steps of the library once. It looked like it was trying to come closer. And when I lived in Scranton, they ate the trash on the ground.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 6:09pm

Today I was sitting here at the kitchen table and I hear this ruckus out on the deck and 2 squirrels came TEARING across the deck at breakneck speed. Totally jumped 3 feet out of my seat.

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 11/18/09 at 6:10pm

haha keep telling me your squirrel stories.. my nanowrimo story is about squirrels XD

the "have a heart" trap is set... now we wait.