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Cat Forum / General Topics / January 2006possums
Every night I take up our kitty food, because of possums. You can bet come dark here they come. I can walk out on my patio, & they pay no attention to me. Last night I did an experiment. I put some cat food in a plastic Folger coffee container. The possums rolled it , bit it , tried to open & finally gave up. They waddled off to the woods. Was rather entertaining. Michael Lane " Say what you want and be who you are, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. " Dr. Seuss We had possums and raccoons in March...the coons were in the attic. There were only 2 but sounded like a herd of them from down below. We had to get someone to come and take them away (we live in the city) because I take care of strays and was afraid they would meet up with them...and I wasnt exactly too keen on the idea of arriving home at dark and meeting up with the wilds of nature :-) > Every night I take up our kitty food, because of possums. You can bet > come dark here they come. I can walk out on my patio, & they pay no [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > and those who matter don't mind. " > Dr. Seuss > Every night I take up our kitty food, because of possums. You can bet > come dark here they come. I can walk out on my patio, & they pay no > attention to me. Last night I did an experiment. I put some cat food in > a plastic Folger coffee container. The possums rolled it , bit it , > tried to open & finally gave up. They waddled off to the woods. Was > rather entertaining. careful with possums... one of them killed a friend of mine's large tom cat! I agree about being careful with possums, but once they're in a cage, they are as docile as can be. Sort of roll themselves into a ball.  Signature"Other than telling us how to live, think, marry, pray, vote, invest, educate our children and now, die, I think the Republicans have done a fine job of getting government out of our personal lives." > >> Every night I take up our kitty food, because of possums. You can bet [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > careful with possums... > one of them killed a friend of mine's large tom cat! Possums have claws that are sharper than you would believe. I had one once climb up my leg - so I know. >> Every night I take up our kitty food, because of possums. You can bet >> come dark here they come. I can walk out on my patio, & they pay no [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > careful with possums... > one of them killed a friend of mine's large tom cat! Even if you take the food away they will still come around for awhile since it is on their normal little food route. They are checking to see if you gonna put any out again. It was almost 3 months before my local possum stopped coming around at nite. He does still stop at my neighbors house. lol > Every night I take up our kitty food, because of possums. You can bet > come dark here they come. I can walk out on my patio, & they pay no [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > and those who matter don't mind. " > Dr. Seuss kevinlgriffin@msn.com (KG) >Even if you take the food away they will > still come around for awhile since it is [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > around at nite. He does still stop at my > neighbors house. lol ----------------------------------------- I don't think they will ever stop, because of the woods around our house. It is a perfect habitat for possums & other critters. a BIG possum was checking things last night. Michael Lane " Say what you want and be who you are, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. " Dr. Seuss > kevinlgriffin@msn.com (KG) > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Michael Lane They are ugly, and mean when they have to be. They remind me of those characters in "Spy vs Spy". So far my two cats have existed peacefully with Mother Natures critters around here. They hear the coyotes and they come inside. I have had at night, by the bird feeders, observed a porcupine and it's young, a deer, a coon, a skunk, a opossum and an Ermine feeding at the same time. Weird, seems like the just decided to all get along. Stone Some pic's http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/stoneman72/my_photos > Every night I take up our kitty food, because of possums. You can bet > come dark here they come. I can walk out on my patio, & they pay no [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Michael Lane It's amazing what garbage people write. I put out cat food and water on my porch every night for outdoor cats and opossums. Cat coexist with opossums quite well and they mostly ignore each other. Opossums are in fact quite harmless and are vulnerable to dog attack and being hit by cars. Adam I hope so...because I forgot to take up the food for our resident stray and turned the back light on because our indoor cats were "up in arms" about something outside...well, our possum friend is back...he took off, I managed to get the stray cat in for a while..but with our 6 cats looking at her..she rather had taken her chances with the possum... >> Every night I take up our kitty food, because of possums. You can bet >> come dark here they come. I can walk out on my patio, & they pay no [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Adam > It's amazing what garbage people write. I put out cat food and water on my porch > every night for outdoor cats and opossums. Cat coexist with opossums quite well and > they mostly ignore each other. Opossums are in fact quite harmless and are vulnerable > to dog attack and being hit by cars. > > Adam While turning around the car in a restaurant parking lot, my lights went past the dumpster. I couldn't believe it, but there were raccoons, opossums, and cats eating right next to each other - some off of the same container. I sat there for a few minutes just watching them. It was pretty neat because I never would have thought those animals would be social with each other. I would think it'd depend upon the cat...If it was a feral or "seasoned" outdoor cat he may do well...but with Princess and Little Bow and my other resident strays, I dont think they'd know how to "co-inhabit" with these critters. >> It's amazing what garbage people write. I put out cat food and water on >> my porch every night for outdoor cats and opossums. Cat coexist with [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > pretty neat because I never would have thought those animals would be > social with each other. >I would think it'd depend upon the cat...If it was a feral or "seasoned" >outdoor cat he may do well...but with Princess and Little Bow and my other [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> pretty neat because I never would have thought those animals would be >> social with each other. |
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