i feel like such a redneck! — Page 2

This thread is enough to solidify my rodent phobia. It began this summer when a squirrel jumped out of the dumpster at my face when I tried to take our garbage out, it worsened when mice chewed a hole in the wall under our kitchen sink and proceeded to steal our dogs' food in the middle of the night, but this story clinches it. ::shudder::

That possum scares the sh*t out of me.

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after only 4 hours or so of waving a broom at it, throwing a towel and/or a bucket over it, and my brother yelling at it to leave, my dad called his friend jimmy, who came over, picked it up by the tail, and put it outside.

it made a mess in the bathroom! it **** everywhere and the whole downstairs stinks now

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Updated On: 11/18/09 at 07:15 PM

This was so much fun to read!

I hate possums. One got in my chicken coop a few years back, and it was dark, so all i saw was a mass of fuzz. Thinking it was a chicken, I reached in to check on it, and the giant rodent turned and bared its teeth at me! I nearly peed myself.

On another note, I believe that possums are unable to get rabies. Their brains haven't evolved enough since the beginning of time to affected by the disease! For something so safe and stupid, it sure is scary looking...

Does it still stink?

I'm glad you guys handled it, and that you managed to keep your sense of humor throughout. Once when I was in college I was alone in my apartment when a bat came whizzing by. I did not handle it very well.

no... well, yes.. it just stinks like mr clean now.

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lol... we kept the havahart trap set.

we used sliced turkey as bait... wikipedia said possums eat meat. my dad wants to see if the cat will go in it overnight. and people wonder where my brother and i get our immaturity from.

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Apparently, possums rarely get rabies because of their low body temperarture. They are also not rodents. They will eat damn near anything, the more rotton the better. I think they would be a whole lot cuter if they didn't have scaly rat-like tails and very pointy teeth. Plus there's that whole hissing and chattering thing.

" I hear about people running them over but all I see are armadillos".

Truth is, once they've been run over a time or two, there isn't all that much difference between a possum and an armadillo when viewed from a moving car. They're roughly the same shape and color, but possums have more fur than armadillos, which are also usually bigger in general.

Abba, don't worry - were you a real redneck, you would have made the critter your dinner. Get up early - you're going to need to let the cat out of the trap.

FAQ from the Opossum Society (no, I'm not kidding).

Updated On: 11/19/09 at 01:10 AM

It could have been worse. You could have opened up the bathroom door and found this:



(This was taken in Magic Kingdom ladies room one morning, by the way. Fortunately, the person who took it was a cast member and they were able to remove it before the park opened and guests came in!)

When I was little, Mamie, my mom always told me to come inside if I saw a racoon in a tree or on the ground in the day time. That must be why. She knew they were sick.

You know, I don't think I've ever looked at a field mouse and worried about rabies. I find them all the time in nests in my chicken coop. Their babies are the size of a quarter, and so sweet and pink! I used to hold them all the time, especially when the cats bring them in still alive, or they get into the grain buckets.

So now I know what happened to my Halloween pumpkin, I guess.

I carved a fairly small pumpkin for Halloween, with an image of a cat. It did start getting a little soft. Well, last week I noticed it was in the garden and not on the porch, and I thought one of my parents thew it there, but it made no sense. So I picked it up to move it to the field and it looked like it had started to get eaten. I know we had a possum go into the recycling bin once outside. So, maybe that's what took it. I don't think our visitor cat would be able to move it or have any interest in eating something so gross.

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About a year and a half ago in my last apartment we had mice problems. There was a hole behind our stove that they would come into our apartment through. One day I was in the kitchen with a glass of something when suddenly two BIG mice ran across the counter right in front of me. I dropped the glass, which shattered on the floor and I just froze for a good couple seconds. Another time in the same apartment, I woke up one morning to find a mouse crawling around in the trash can in my room.

The problem got so bad that we had to call pest control.

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