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[memtb]

I've got armadillos and skunks. My yard looks like it has been attacked by augers.

I guess a "Texas Heart Shot" in the flower bed, along our back porch was ill advised!

In my defense…..it was at night, and he'd escaped me twice by going into the basement window well! I didn't want to fail 3 times! Pride goeth before the fall! memtb

 

[memtb]

I guess a "Texas Heart Shot" in the flower bed, along our back porch was ill advised!

In my defense…..it was at night, and he'd escaped me twice by going into the basement window well! I didn't want to fail 3 times! Pride goeth before the fall! memtb

On the "Bright Side"……the cats are not using the flower bed to make deposits now! memtb

 

[Victor3Ranger1]

Human

 

[Mark37082]

I guess a "Texas Heart Shot" in the flower bed, along our back porch was ill advised!

In my defense…..it was at night, and he'd escaped me twice by going into the basement window well! I didn't want to fail 3 times! Pride goeth before the fall! memtb

Those armadillos have wised up to my late evening sniper sessions. They wait to I go to bed to invade now.
This one came out before I went to bed. Found him the next morning.

 

[Victor3Ranger1]

Those armadillos have wised up to my late evening sniper sessions. They wait to I go to bed to invade now.
This one came out before I went to bed. Found him the next morning.
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Possum on the half shell

 

[Old Hickory 45]

Dang! I would have bet that was a dillow.

 

[yankee outlaw]

no sir not up in ny st not yet any how

 

[ridgewalker]

Raccoons dig grubs in my yard. Then poop on everything! I have been live trapping them and transporting them to the mountains 15 miles, but I'm not sure they aren't returning. Next step is dog proof traps and a bat to the back of their head.

 

[yankee outlaw]

yea i did catch a coon a month ago

 

[Citified]

I'm not sure. Depends on where you live. I was testing a new trail cam in my backyard and it caught a possum tearing out chunks of grass that looked like your picture with its normally straight tail. I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't have multiple recordings. Turned out it was building a nest under my shed and soon emerged with a bunch of babies. The possum curls it tail up
Like a corkscrew to yank out the grass.
I know raccoons also will did in grass for grubs.

 

[ridgewalker]

I'm not sure. Depends on where you live. I was testing a new trail cam in my backyard and it caught a possum tearing out chunks of grass that looked like your picture with its normally straight tail. I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't have multiple recordings. Turned out it was building a nest under my shed and soon emerged with a bunch of babies. The possum curls it tail up
Like a corkscrew to yank out the grass.
I know raccoons also will did in grass for grubs.

Possums in central Oregon! WOW! I would have thought it would get too cold! Same for NY! I didn't know they were in such cold. Had lots when I grew up in North Texas.

 

[Citified]

For clarity, the possum problem in my yard was when I lived in California. Didn't intend to mislead.
Central Oregon where we moved to a few years ago has the big fat raccoons. Should probably change my avatar, but it is a pain. I'm not feeding them but they are certainly not starving. We live at 4200 ft in the forest and the snow doesn't seem to bother them.

 

[Tiny Tim]

I have been live trapping them and transporting them to the mountains 15 miles, but I'm not sure they aren't returning.

You could always paint their tail prior to release to help identify them.

 

[yankee outlaw]

there are possums hear in ny state i seen one just a month ago in my drive way