Hi Jack, That look is exactly like the contempt that these possums are showing for me. Still driving the dog nuts but they weren't running across the roof last night so that is an improvement
hello NormK. this might not be relevant to you but i too had a possum problem like that. i purchased one of those high pitched non audible to humans squealer pest deterrents and put it inside my roof with an extension lead going down to beside my bed. whenever i heard a possum on the roof i would switch the thing on. I could here the possums eagerly trying to escape the noise. as you have a dog this might not help.but it may just shut your dog up also.
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At least you haven't lost your sense of humor but I know how well they are irritating you. I got a mouse or rat under my floor that keeps gnawing on the floor joists. I about got him or her to stop as I have been ringing its ears by taking a hammer like a machine gun to the area right over where he is gnawing. Makes me so mad that if I could get to him or her I would take it out. Just about the time I get all settle into bed the gnawing starts. It was quite last night as far as I know so I have stumped my toes lately. OUCH.
G'day Norm and AVB I'm a mug if I didn't love AVB's mug [coffee cup].
Yes, Australians do laugh at themselves. Norm has a great sense of humour, a sort of Rumpole of the Bailey, where 'she who must be obeyed' rings true to me.
Now I have to find where I can get a couple of the second one. Actually when I think about it it isn't the possums I really hate (now they don't run across the roof) what I hate is the dog barking at all hours of the night at possums that just sit in the tree looking at him and thinking what do you think you are going to do about it
Last night the dog barking again so I went out to get him back inside and a possum was sitting there right beside the fake owl I put in the tree so that is 100% proof fake owls do not work, maybe initially but I only put that one there about 3 days ago I guess they might as well go in the rubbish bin
Is it possible to train the dog not to bark at possums?
AVB, are woodpeckers pests in your neck of the woods?
Cheers ----------------------- Jack
It call a no bark collar.
And no woodpeckers are not a problem. Right now it is the Northern Blackbirds, so noisy and messy but the bottle rockets usually moves them along to be someone else pest. They known disease carrier as every time they show up my chickens get sick with the bird flu.
I know Tyler, but with all that has gone on this year culminating with the coronavirus and toilet paper fights, the possums ended up wearing me down. I don't know why they are coming into my yard as there is nothing for them to eat here. I'm not sure if they do it deliberately just to annoy the dog because they sit on a branch about 7 feet off the ground and just look at him. The fact they just sit there I think is what really annoys him
I think I solve my mouse problem. Went Sunday and brought him a Tom Cat candy bar. He and his buddies ate a third of it the first night. As there is no more chewing of the floor joists in the middle of the night.
These things always seem to come back and bite me, The possums finally left, but if I had known about this looming food shortage sooner I could have been making possum pies and possum tail soup
If they are any like the O'possums here they are greasy as heck. Matter I think I can grease my whole car with one. Beside these American possums are bottom feeders and not safe in my opinion to even eat.
Granny used to cook them up in the Beverly Hillbillies
Yes you can cook anything but is it fit to eat is another thing. You did see where Ellie May's cooking could knock down a mule? I had a few girl friends that didn't make the cut either for the same reason. I just didn't want to die eating what they cooked.
Oh on the American possum I did kill one and skinned it just see what it was all about. It over 50% fat and grizzle plus it stunk to high heaven. There would have to be no plants at all for me to eat one. I sorta got the same attitude about pig intestines or pig rectums; I don't how clean they are. I do have my standards on what I going to eat.
Looks like I win, no possums on the roof for 3 nights and now the dog doesn't know what to do. Wrapped corrugated iron around the trunk of the liquid amber tree and cut 3 branches off that they may have been using to get into the tree, just so they could sit there 3 meters above the ground and laugh at him
Yes you can cook anything but is it fit to eat is another thing. You did see where Ellie May's cooking could knock down a mule? AVB, you bring a smile. Australians lived on a staple diet of American shows - including the Beverly Hillbillies.
Jethro - I recall - wasn't the brightest spark in the furnace.
Norm, just like Kovid 19 - there can be a second spike ... Your dog knows you are tormenting him. He emailed me.
They just having a convention meeting scheming of new ways to get to you and your dog Norm.
My possum problem has been quite several weeks but I see holes being dug in the yard again. I thinking it is just armadillos this time. I deal with the holes as long as animals just leave the chickens alone.
I finally think I have won the battle, I tried everything I could think of, the slingshot with glass balls sort of made them wary but they still kept coming back even though I hit them with the slingshot occasionally. My big victory was about a week ago when the dog had one up the tree and with my spotlight on it I started banging on the corrugated iron I have wrapped around the tree with a lump of wood. Each time the possum went a bit higher and stopped I started banging on the iron again. I kept this up till he was right at the top of the tree and waving about on the thinnest of branches. I kept banging for a while and went back inside and since then the dog goes outside hoping to find a possum but obviously they have moved on because he comes back inside without me having to chase him . Victory at last finally I hope
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