Aside from blasting them, does anybody know a way to keep possums out of the Havahart? I'm stumped. They're attracted to the bait at least as much as the targets are, and any smell that will run them off will keep away every other mammal on earth. They can get through any hole that's bug enough for other small critters.
I hate to kill them. They're useful, hardworking and dedicated, which makes them better than a lot of people I know.

I thought possums were put on the earth for people to run over with cars. The side of the road is the only place I see them anymore. You mean they actually do more than stare at the headlights coming at them?????

God put them here so man would have something to kill when he wasn't hungry.

Gawd I have to make a confession here. I hate possums more than crats! Yeah, I know, I'm a sick man.

Possums are only useful for stealing strawberries/tomatoes, etc. from your garden and breeding fleas (and diseases). Oh, they can make quite a racket if they get into (or under) your house! Overgrown rats! They only get a stick to the head when I catch them. Feral cats at least get to make a break for it before the lead catches up with them...

I cannot keep them out of my Havahart traps. I have caught one so often that he now sleeps in the trap.

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I cannot keep them out of my Havahart traps. I have caught one so often that he now sleeps in the trap.

I'd take him swimming if I were you.
A few years ago I came home and threw my gym bag on the work bench in the garage as I walked in the house. I left the garage door open that night (forgot, passed out or whatever). Anyway a couple days later I was doing some laundry and went to get the bag. I opened it to see one of those ugly, hissing little bastards staring back at me. Guess my sweaty clothes smelled like cow guts or something. 'Bout shit my batman underbritches. I threw the bag on the floor grabbed a 3 wood out of the golf bag and teed off when he stuck his ugly, bald head out. What a mess. Pitched the bag and all in a brush pile and burned it.
I've always been amazed that the species survives. They're slow, stupid and basically defenseless and everybody hates them. They must breed faster than rabbits.

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They must breed faster than rabbits

Anything that dumb and slow must have something going for them. Otherwise they would have been gone a long time ago.

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Possums are only useful for stealing strawberries

Yep, and the grinner community is paying dearly for that here in Y'town.

Dan

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I had one of those damned thing get into my storage shed and get locked in. Before the ungrateful little bastard kicked off he repaid my giving him dry shelter by eating holes in my best tent!
I agree, kill them all and let god decide which ones were deserving of life! derf

Shot my first one this spring. They are slowly expanding their range in our area. One more critter to shoot.

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Pitched the bag and all in a brush pile and burned it

That's where I would have started.

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That's where I would have started.

I should have. Chipped the driver on the concrete and had to clean the wall. I guess that's what happens when you go with your first impulse.

They are tough. I shot one with a 60 pound compound from about 10 feet away. The broadhead didn't go though him. And it was a pain getting him off the arrow since he refused to die. They must be made of grissel.

You need a expanding broadhead for your arrows if your gonna kill possums with ti. I can tell you first hand they work great on possoms and armidillos