Getting rid if an opossum.

DA REEL DADDY · Jul 29, 2015

There is a hole that a varmint dug between our patio slab and house slab in Sargent. I am pretty sure it is an opossum because I drove in one time and saw this gray hairy sucker walking in front of our house.

Someone told me to soak a towel in ammonia and shove it down the hole and he would not go back down. I did that with a golf towel and shoved down enough where I could still see the towel. The next day the towel was gone and a couple of days later a buddy came over and said he saw the opossum cutting through the yard again.

Truth be said, my biggest concern is him tunneling under the slab and causing some sort of slab problems, which I already down there, or someone running into him and losing a toe.

Any quick and easy getting rid of a opossum remedies or is it go to academy and buy a trap? On the other hand would not worry about it cause he is not going to cause any damage?

sharkbait-tx70 · Jul 29, 2015

Pest

Buy a trap and sardines for bait.... May have to set several times because there is most likely more than one around......

Mont · Jul 29, 2015

fill the hole up with dry Sakcrete and water it down.

chumy · Jul 29, 2015

That's about as cruel as dog food soaked with antifreeze.... Which I had to actually do one time.

bassguitarman · Jul 29, 2015

Mostly opossums are just ugly. For one time use, Harbor Freight has less expensive traps than Academy.

Knot Kidding · Jul 29, 2015

X2 used them once, (well worth it) caught a mother and 5 babies by morning (just put a small saucer of dry catfood and a few as a trail leading into the trap.
http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?q=trap

essayons75 · Jul 29, 2015

Put some food in the bottom of a large trash can. Lean the trash can on something like a cinder block or stump so that the opossum can climb in. When it goes to the bottom to eat the food the trash can will stand upright and the opossum is trapped.

Mr. Saltwater · Jul 30, 2015

Good idea!! Never thought of leaning the trash can.

I always used a board for a ramp. They walk up the board, drop in to get the bait, and can't get out. It works.

Rubberback · Jul 29, 2015

Sounds like its an armadillo.

Rubberback · Jul 29, 2015

JMAKO · Jul 29, 2015

Possums are bad news for horses. Their saliva contains terrible infectious disease if introduced to a horse by a bite or by way of saliva on horse feed or mineral blocks etc. Its commonly called possum disease and cripples and kills horses affecting their central nervous system. Its bad!

Pivo and kolache · Jul 30, 2015

Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis or EPM

TXXpress · Jul 29, 2015

I guess you don't have any Cajun friends? Dilla in gumbo is a delicacy east of here!:rotfl:

J/K

Water, Sakcrete, and then use a pc of rebar to stir up the mix.

Mr. Breeze · Jul 29, 2015

I used concrete, whatever it was dug around it. Eventually it went away or it finally got trapped? It happens in the winter at my place.

fishingcacher · Jul 29, 2015

Cowboy1uhB · Jul 29, 2015

I'd say don't vote for him but he can't run for a third term.

txbred · Jul 29, 2015

I had one in my Ligustrum Bush a few years ago and shot at it with a pellet gun. He calmly climbed down and lay down on the ground, and I went back to doing what I was doing. The next morning I checked and he was still there. I gave him kudos for playing the best possum I've ever seen a possum play. I mean he really overdid it! He could've got up and left but he was still playing.

Funny old possum.

gigem87 · Jul 29, 2015

Borrow my two dachshunds and start digging a hole to bury the carcass in. Won't take them long. I must have buried two dozen of them over the years...

Haute Pursuit · Jul 29, 2015

Gray hairy sucker? Sounds like you may have a HarborMaster problem.

Ernest · Jul 29, 2015

One small to medium sized terrier. Just show the dog the hole and if there is anything down their other than a bobcat or a wolverine, the terrier will gladly drag it out by the face.

Reward dog with biscuit, dispatch critter with shovel, and then bury in hole with quick-crete.

This is a simple task if you use the right tool. And, if the issue is medium sized vermin around your place, terriers were designed for that very task. Its what they were born to do.

Pro-tip - take critter away from terrier before terrier opens up the body cavity of the critter. If not, terriers tend to make a mess, and greasy vermin offal can cause a remarkably potent smell if not immediately cleaned up.

Pro-tip 2 - slinging a dead possum into your neighbor's pool is considered the "nuclear option" and tends to seriously escalate the feud. There is no going back on that one. They will hold it against you for years. Years.

trout250 · Jul 30, 2015

be careful you may have an ole man no shoulders holded up in there as well, trap with sardines is sure fire thing, set couple of nights after initial catch then fill with crete as suggested earlier.

good luck

Gottagofishin · Jul 30, 2015

You need a good critter dog. I'd loan you mine but he's pretty old. Doesn't have much left as his hips are shot.

I lost count of the opossums he's killed over the years, not to mention cats, squirrels and even a couple of raccoons.

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Runway · Jul 30, 2015

I was told by a Sargent local to leave him be - he will eat other critters I don't like either. Other than the hole under the house, it doesn't appear to be doing much damage. But what do I know - I'm a city slicker!!

CaptBrad · Jul 30, 2015

Am I the only one whose first thought was grab .22?

I thought this was a Texas forum, not yankee yuppie possum hugging forum.

glenbo · Jul 30, 2015

There's one or two that come up on our front deck every couple of nights. We open the door and tell then to go home, they waddle off, and there's no harm. They eat crawfish so rarely do we have a problem with crawfish hills in the yard. They don't destroy anything, so what's the harm in having them around?

Pappyski · Jul 30, 2015

Possum

Buy trap at Tractor supply

DA REEL DADDY · Jul 30, 2015

Thanks for the replies guys. I have heard about the trash can trap before so I think I will give that a try first then buy one if I have to. After that I will fill with some quickcrete.

RDN · Jul 30, 2015

Wonder if you have a opossum hanging around if it will keep the skunks away. I have noticed quite a few skunks down in Sargent lately.

LaddH · Jul 30, 2015

Possum doesn't seem to keep the skunks away. I have trapped both around the house close to the same time and have seen on the game cam possum one night and skunk the next.

peckerwood · Jul 30, 2015

I think you have a possum and armadillo.I've never heard of possums digging a hole big or deep enough to den up in.I have a creek behind my barn,so I have to trap possums year-round.They're suckers for dog food in a live trap.Go out at midnight and fill the hole up with dirt while the 'dillo is out making a living.It'll be dug out again probably.Get 2 2x8's or maybe 6's and make a hall way from the hole to the trap door,and put some mashed rotten banana in the trap.They don't see well but have a killer sniffer.The boards will guide him to the trap and banana's will draw it in.If it's an armadillo,your going to need a bunch of quickcrete.I may be wrong since you didn't mention any holes in St. Agustine.

dolch · Jul 30, 2015

golden malrin and coke
not legal
friends have used it.
said it worked great

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