Backyard Critters

[Ms3r4ISU]

I agree with everyone else. Possums look nasty and might hiss at you but they are pretty harmless and eat ticks.

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Careful, this is an example of reading one thing and making sweeping generalizations that aren't necessarily true.
https://a-z-animals.com/blog/do-possums-eat-ticks-according-to-science-its-complicated/

 

[madguy30]

Echo on the ticks thing. They're good for that aspect and generally mind their own business.

If it's getting too close, a small radio I think can help.

 

[ianoconnor]

My dog has killed a couple. I've read they are attracted to dog poop in the backyard, so if you don't clean that up often - it could help.

 

[Cyforce]

So if the O is silent do you still use an? Not trying to be a jerk, I genuinely want to know. An looks right but sounds wrong.

Agree ticks are out in force.

 

[Pope]

i call them egg suckin' sum b*tches

That's funny, that's what I call your mom.

Did I do that right?

 

[CoachHines3]

That's funny, that's what I call your mom.

Did I do that right?

Hahahaha

Yes!

 

[Cyfan1965]

Back in the day went to a party flipped the light on in this room and a opossum runs behind a book case. Of course he plays dead we get him into a paper bag and take him outside. He opens one eye looks around, opens other eye looks around then jumps up runs back up the tree into the dudes OPEN window. Me "Dave I'm out later"

 

[CoachHines3]

Back in the day went to a party flipped the light on in this room and a opossum runs behind a book case. Of course he plays dead we get him into a paper bag and take him outside. He opens one eye looks around, opens other eye looks around then jumps up runs back up the tree into the dudes OPEN window. Me "Dave I'm out later"

My in laws have a dog on their farm that will constantly bring them up to the porch and they just lay there (playing dead).

 

[ImJustKCClone]

They are generally non-aggressive and tend to "posture" rather than attack...but I would be cautious about letting a dog approach one.
We had a young one get into the garage one winter with our outdoor cats. Little bugger shared their food & curled up with them to sleep on a pillow under a heat lamp. We had to encourage him to leave thought, because he wouldn't use the litter box.

That said, they are tick vacuums, and are efficient at keeping that population under control. We love our possums.

 

[nfrine]

Live in Ankeny and a few weeks ago I spotted a family of 5 foxes playing in a yard a few houses away. Have spotted them running through our yard recently.

Two-legged or four-legged?

 

[BigTurk]

Possum? Opossum?

Opossum https://www.bobvila.com/articles/possum-vs-opossum/

 

[Gunnerclone]

Had an opossum make himself at home under my shed several years back. I ended up live trapping him and relocating him to a wooded area east of Ankeny. Did the same with a groundhog a few years ago.

I have a dog that has free range of the backyard via a doggie door, therefore, I didn't want them living under my shed.

**** them groundhogs though. Pieces of ****.

 

[AuH2O]

Two-legged or four-legged?

I'm skeptical there are any foxes in Ankeny. That's mama bear and cougar country.

 

[CoachHines3]

I'm skeptical there are any foxes in Ankeny. That's mama bear and cougar country.

your mama was a bear last night

 

[Clonehomer]

So if the O is silent do you still use an? Not trying to be a jerk, I genuinely want to know. An looks right but sounds wrong.

Agree ticks are out in force.

Once you have a couple kids you learn to keep the O silent.

 

[1100011CS]

Careful, this is an example of reading one thing and making sweeping generalizations that aren't necessarily true.
https://a-z-animals.com/blog/do-possums-eat-ticks-according-to-science-its-complicated/

Actually, I think they cover that in the podcast. I had forgotten.

 

[somecyguy]

 

[coolerifyoudid]

11 year-old cooler still recalls going into the tiny feed shed to scoop out a couple 5 gallon buckets for the sows at 5:30 AM. I set down the buckets, grabbed a grain shovel and turned toward the feed pile only to face a collie-sized opossum hissing at me with those nasty yellow teeth. At that moment, the weather gods laughed and the wind blew the shed door closed trapping me in the dark with that sucker.

I took one panicked blind swing with the shovel and heard a loud 'bong' as I connected with what I still assume was the opossum's melon. I busted out of the shed and gave my heart about 5 solid minutes to slow down before opening the door again. No opossum. To this day, I have no idea how it got out. I can only assume that portal to hell opened back up and it sauntered back through it.

I hated that ******* shed every damn day until I went to college.

 

[Ms3r4ISU]

11 year-old cooler still recalls going into the tiny feed shed to scoop out a couple 5 gallon buckets for the sows at 5:30 AM. I set down the buckets, grabbed a grain shovel and turned toward the feed pile only to face a collie-sized opossum hissing at me with those nasty yellow teeth. At that moment, the weather gods laughed and the wind blew the shed door closed trapping me in the dark with that sucker.

I took one panicked blind swing with the shovel and heard a loud 'bong' as I connected with what I still assume was the opossum's melon. I busted out of the shed and gave my heart about 5 solid minutes to slow down before opening the door again. No opossum. To this day, I have no idea how it got out. I can only assume that portal to hell opened back up and it sauntered back through it.

I hated that ******* shed every damn day until I went to college.

Did you think to look up?

 

[cycloner29]