About a week ago , one evening I heard Ollie barking in the back yard . As all dog owners know , there are different barks , so I went to investigate . Yup , something was there behind a light pole . So I got a flashlight and there are 2 beady eyes . I took Ollie in , and by the time I went back out the Possum was gone . Fast forward to 3 nights ago . I was at the 'puter and see Ollie come in with what I thought was one of his stuffed friends .....hmmmm , he doesn't have one with a tail like that ! He takes it to the futon and , yup it was a young possum ....about the size of a big rat. It's eyes were closed and it's bared yellow teeth so icky !!! I grabbed it by the tail and threw it in the trash . Well , today I decide to remove it as I didn't want it to rot there . Hmmmmmmmmm....the garbage bad wasn't in place .....pulled it aside , and yup .... that guy wasn't dead !!! There he/she was looking at me hissing ! So I rolled the whole thing out ...pulled out the bag and dumped over the container next to my neighbor's fence . Little Pogo scampered into their yard ....good riddance !!!! :yikes:
Ollie and his Possums ....
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Oh, my! You handled that well! I'm not sure what I would have done.
Spanky hasn't done that, but one of our cats has brought in a couple of moles. He brought one inside and up the stairs to play with, I suppose. But then he lost it. I found it. I don't know how long it had been there, but I saw what looked like a mouse move underneath my night stand. I didn't see a tail, though. When we got it, out it was, indeed a mole.
A few weeks later, I stooped down to pick up what I thought was a dog toy, and before I grabbed it realized it was a dead mole.
Then, a few weeks later, my son came upstairs and said the cat had just brought a snake in. I am terrified of snakes. My husband ran downstairs and asked my son where it was. He said the cat had dropped it and the snake had slithered into the hall closet. Well, that was quite a morning!! I'm not comfortable knowing there's a snake somewhere loose in my house and not knowing when he's going to show up. We (well, not actually me in any way) got him out.....and we replaced several panels of screen in the screen porch to prevent the cat from going out hunting anymore.
Spanky hasn't done that, but one of our cats has brought in a couple of moles. He brought one inside and up the stairs to play with, I suppose. But then he lost it. I found it. I don't know how long it had been there, but I saw what looked like a mouse move underneath my night stand. I didn't see a tail, though. When we got it, out it was, indeed a mole.
A few weeks later, I stooped down to pick up what I thought was a dog toy, and before I grabbed it realized it was a dead mole.
Then, a few weeks later, my son came upstairs and said the cat had just brought a snake in. I am terrified of snakes. My husband ran downstairs and asked my son where it was. He said the cat had dropped it and the snake had slithered into the hall closet. Well, that was quite a morning!! I'm not comfortable knowing there's a snake somewhere loose in my house and not knowing when he's going to show up. We (well, not actually me in any way) got him out.....and we replaced several panels of screen in the screen porch to prevent the cat from going out hunting anymore.
My first dog, Rowdy, was quite th hunter. He would leave me birds, frogs....whatever. He had even managed to kill 6 possums. Not in one night. After 36, they finally stopped showing up. We lived in an area of town where trees were being cut down for homes. Rowdy was, for the most part, an outside dog. He wanted it that way. He came in on hotter days and has his weather-proofed dog house and a shed he could go into. Even after my dad took the shed down (rats), he would lay in the cool dirt where it had been. He was very, very protective. Especially of me. I just wish he didn't feel the need to leave such disgusting "presents" at our door-step. we never offended him, though. I always gave him a treat and pet him and told him good boy as my dad took the offending object to the garbage.
Hmm, my animals have never brought me possums or anything, but the cats are partial to rabbits. They once left me a decapitated rabbit under a lawn chair, with the head under the adjacent chair. Now that they are old they don't really hunt anymore. (I would keep them inside but they are my parents' cats so I have no say).
Yes, that did it for me! Both are supposed to be indoor cats, but Charles loves to go outside and has occasionally scooted out when someone's standing in the doorway, etc. He found a small tear in our screen and started sneaking out that way. We found out how he was getting out and were planning to fix it, but you know how that goes! Well, once that snake came in, the cat was banished from the screen porch until the screen was fixed. No, no...I can't live with a snake running free in my house.
