My dog loves Possums - She brings them home!

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I came home from work to find a possum staring me down. This is the second time this week my dog has brought in a possum.
articiansays...

Poor thing.

If you poke them in the butt with a stick, their tail will automatically wrap around it. It's a natural reaction from when they're first born (usually in trees, as far as I recall).

You can also grab them by the scruff of the neck like a cat or dog. Unless they're rabid, or really seriously cornered, they will usually continue to play dead so you can move them easily.

My grandfather used to tell me stories about "hunting" possum in the south, where they'd drive around at night until finding one on the road. They would always freeze in the headlights, and then my grandfather would get out with two sticks and approach it. He'd do the poke-in-the-butt with one stick, and when the possum had coiled its tail around it and could be picked up, he'd lift it and place the other stick under its chin. Then he'd raise both sticks to the same height and, supposedly, the weight would break it's neck and kill it instantly (supposedly).

shangsays...

yea growing up here in the deep south me and my brother would catch them using a spotlight, stick and bag.

there was an old black man in town that would buy them 5 dollars a piece, they ate them and he'd skin them and sell the skins.

course my dad was a big hunter and thought it was neat that we found a small part of hunting we could make a little summer money with.

usually after 2 weekends me and my brother would get about 20-30 dollars each for the possums we'd bring the elderly black man and he was always so nice to us.

but he probably made a ton more money with the hides since possum, raccoon hides sell for a lot here in the south, huge market in them.

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