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Old 11/09/07, 04:17 PM
 
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'possum bait.
What's good to bait a trap for them? Got a friendly one visiting my front yard.

Ugly critters!
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Old 11/09/07, 04:32 PM
 
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What's good to bait a trap for them? Got a friendly one visiting my front yard.

Ugly critters!

About any type food that is spoiled and smelling or a can of sardines should do the trick!!
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Old 11/09/07, 04:47 PM
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wet cat food
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Old 11/09/07, 05:22 PM
 
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Slice A Monkey stick open ,Place 2 teaspoons of Golden Maliran Flybait inside close the Monkey stick up. = dead Possum in A few hundred feet!!! Works 100% of the time, For coons use Sardines instead of Monkey stick!!
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Old 11/09/07, 05:23 PM
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They seem to be really fond of cat food in general, kibbles or canned.
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Slice A Monkey stick open ,Place 2 teaspoons of Golden Maliran Flybait inside close the Monkey stick up. = dead Possum in A few hundred feet!!! Works 100% of the time, For coons use Sardines instead of Monkey stick!!
I'm almost afraid to ask what a monkey stick is.
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Old 11/09/07, 05:58 PM
 
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Any table scraps will do. I feed one off my back porch nightly.
I see no reason to get rid of her. She has raised young in my basement for 2 or 3 years.
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Old 11/09/07, 06:11 PM
 
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9 out of 10 possums surveyed prefer cat food for their last meal.
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Old 11/09/07, 06:43 PM
 
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Be NOT Afraid the lowly Monkey stick is also called A Bannanna, I hate them thing. Try unloading 40,000# of them by yourself in half A day. You would hate them scummy things too. See it was nothing Nasty.. was it.
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Old 11/10/07, 12:05 AM
 
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Slice A Monkey stick open ,Place 2 teaspoons of Golden Maliran Flybait inside close the Monkey stick up. = dead Possum in A few hundred feet!!! Works 100% of the time, For coons use Sardines instead of Monkey stick!!
Around here automotive tires seem to be efficient.

"Monkey stick" is now in my vocabulary.
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Old 11/10/07, 07:00 AM
 
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Best idea of all? any nice Heirloom Tomato--forewarned--the prefer the best, nice flavored ones, not red---trapped 9 this way IN MY TOMATO PATCH!!!!
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Old 11/10/07, 07:29 AM
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Had one visiting my basement several years ago. Tried cat food, sardines, dog food. Nothing worked. Finally caught her, with many babies on her back, with fresh sliced apple. Took her out in the country and let her and the babies go. (live catch trap)

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Old 11/10/07, 08:32 AM
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I trapped one with my garage. Didn't mean to. I untrapped him with a trail of dog food out the partially closed door.
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Old 11/10/07, 08:38 AM
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I had one visiting me for a while. He wasn't hurting anything, so I put out dog food for it (so it would quit getting into the barrel of poultry food). He didn't seem particularly afraid of us, the dogs or the cats. Eventually, he moved on (probably ended up as road kill).

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