Possum getting away

[Chuck52]

please consider have-a-heart traps, and releasing him elsewhere --


shooting and killing everything that is trying to live naturally around your domestic setup is a little outdated and cruel --

-- and if you ever meet these animals in the afterlife, they'll treat you muccchhhh nicer if you trapped and released elsewhere, instead of shooting them in a barrel -- or death by drowining --

-- drowning especially is just plain cruel.

Eric,

I think we've had this discussion before...at least I know a similar thread is out there somewhere. Catching and releasing sounds nice, but at least for possums and coons, which are about all I trap, no one else wants my pests any more than I. I dispatch them as quickly and humanely as I can. I trap them to protect my fruit crops, and no, I can't just fence them out. In some locations, it is illegal to relocate trapped animals.

In my opinion, controlling pests around my domestic setup, in the manner I employ, is neither outdated nor cruel, and I have enough trouble imagining my own afterlife without populating said afterlife with everything down to flatworms.

Chuck

 

[MossRoad]

please consider have-a-heart traps, and releasing him elsewhere --

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shooting and killing everything that is trying to live naturally around your domestic setup is a little outdated and cruel --

-- and if you ever meet these animals in the afterlife, they'll treat you muccchhhh nicer if you trapped and released elsewhere, instead of shooting them in a barrel -- or death by drowining --

-- drowning especially is just plain cruel.

Who are you kidding? If you meet them in the afterlife, they will eat you! :laughing:

 

[tallyho8]

I just got a better photo last night. WHAT IS IT??????

 

[Redbug]

Hmmm...now that guy looks like a coyote. What is the opening size to your trap?

 

[JakeBrake]

Possums love dog food. I have lost track of how many possums my dogs have killed at night over the years while the possums were trying to steal their dog food.

 

[tallyho8]

Hmmm...now that guy looks like a coyote. What is the opening size to your trap?

That's just a small possum/coon trap. I am going to have to get a larger trap tomorrow for the fox/coyote.

I also got a photo of the tail when it was going by last night.

 

[jbooth]

That's definitely a chicken eating coyote. Relocate it to coyote heaven. It will come back until all the easy lunches are gone. Coyotes also eat small dogs and cats once it runs out of chickens or the opportunity presents itself.

 

[Chilly807]

That's definitely a chicken eating coyote. Relocate it to coyote heaven. It will come back until all the easy lunches are gone. Coyotes also eat small dogs and cats once it runs out of chickens or the opportunity presents itself.

I'd agree on all points... they're the living devil to trap as well. Trouble is, where there's one, there's more. You're going to have to varmint-proof your chicken coop, even if you do start moving the varmints to the great beyond.

Sean

 

[jbooth]

Put one of your live chickens in your live trap, set it up on a post and set a large leg hold trap at the base of the post. This coyote definitely knows what an excited chicken sounds like and will dance around at the post and get himself caught. Dispatch him with your shooter. May sound cruel to my animal hugger friends, but this coyoteis not being kind to your chickens. When or if relocated, will go for the next closest chicken pen. Didn't catch your location, but maybe a state animal control officer could assist. Not sure if my state still has it's state trapper. Never needed one myself, but had friends who had sheep and were being put out of business by coyotes. They and the state officer were able to catch 30 coyotes in one winter season. Those coyotes were not relocated.

 

[jinman]

That's just a small possum/coon trap. I am going to have to get a larger trap tomorrow for the fox/coyote.

I also got a photo of the tail when it was going by last night.

So, is it certain it is a foyote or a coyofox? I'd love to see a picture of your possum in that trap and the fox/coyote trying to dig him out for dinner. Can you get that picture for me Dudley?:laughing: