yay opossum!

I have been trying to disprove that information for 2 years on facebook.

My property has been plagued with possums. It is also plagued with ticks. Millions of them. They used to make themselves right at home on my kitchen porch with the cats, (the possums that is), eating their food (instead of ticks), and sleeping with them. I would haul those things off to another location every time I could get brave enough to get a hold on one.

My friend here in the two previous months was able to catch 3 of them, not quite full grown, in my basement which is open to my enclosed front porch. And yes I house 2 cats out there. I no longer let cats outside.

Frankly I'd have more faith in the armadillos eating ticks, than these scrounging possums. If they are eating them when they take the time to be outside, they aren't eating enough of them.


They are causing me property damage by digging into crawlspace underpinning to access my basement, walking along my ductwork and destroying insulation and the material that was holding it up to the basement ceiling/my floor. I've probably only removed maybe 10 in the 23 years I've been here leaving more than enough to eat ticks.

Post Edited (julymorning) : 1/29/2017 12:19:19 PM (GMT-7)

Sorry that sounds awful! Didn't mean any harm. Oh well. I digress.

wildGarden there is nothing wrong with your post.

We all contribute information here. I don't think anyone of us are right all the time. Heck, definitely not me.

I have thought about getting guinea hens for my property, but I know the coyotes or cougars will eat them. I just don't want fences, I like wide open space.

julymorning said...
I have been trying to disprove that information for 2 years on facebook.

My property has been plagued with possums. It is also plagued with ticks. Millions of them. They used to make themselves right at home on my kitchen porch with the cats, (the possums that is), eating their food (instead of ticks), and sleeping with them. I would haul those things off to another location every time I could get brave enough to get a hold on one.

Animals are creatures of opportunity. The opossum is there because of the ticks. Take away the easy meal(cat food) and they will still be there, just not on your porch anymore. I grew up on a farm. Mom loved strays, they kept the mice down, and she felt bad for them. When she started feeding them outside, we not only had more mice because the cats had their easy meal, we had opossum, coon, fox...you name it we had it. Took away the cat food and the critters went back to surviving like God intended them to.