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06-08-2012, 11:40 AM | #16 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Lampasas, Tx
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| Yorkie vs. possum SWHouston, Bandit is very protective of me and even more so of my 14 y/o daughter. Sometimes I swear he is half pit because when we play with his rope toy he will get ahold of it and I can pick him up off the ground with it and he will not let go at all. I am very glad that he is that protective of her because sometimes I work in the evening and dont get home until late, but I do feel better with him there because I know he will protect with all he has. He is my spoiled rotten boy! |
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06-08-2012, 11:44 AM | #17 |
♥Trained by my pups♥ Donating YT 500 Club Member | I thought one was dead once. Went t o get the shovel and when I got back it was looking at me. It was a baby and then just ran off.
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06-08-2012, 06:24 PM | #18 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: NY
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| Opossums are not vicious. They look very scary but they have very little in the way of being able to defend themselves. They are slow movers and scavengers. They usually end up on the worse end of a dog fight. Foxes like to use them as a meal when they can find them. Coyotes also take advantage of their inability to fight. Your dog probably would have not had much of a fight from a baby Opossum although of course it is something you certainly want to avoid. It sounds like your little guy has all of his terrier attributes working at 100%! |
10-11-2012, 11:10 PM | #19 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: thomasville
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| here's a possum story Ok Yorkie Lovers out there , this is my story about my Yorkie boy Sir Theodore Mr.Sexy (Teddy) for short. About a month ago i was grilling out on the porch and a baby possum stuck his head around the lid of the grill like hey whats for dinner i grabbed him by the tail and threw him over the fence and went back to cooking. Two nights later i open my bed room door and my Yorkies went straight under the bed and it was on. I thought they were fighting with each other and the noises I was hearing didn't sound just like play fighting so i looked under the bed and teddy had a baby possum in his mouth dead i quickly took it from him and deposed of the foot long baby possum. Apparently a mom possum had gotten under my house and had babies, and they came threw my heating vents under my bed . by the way omg, so any ways, about a week after that it happened again let the door open into the bed room and all hell broke loose again this time Teddy wouldn't let go he had another baby possum by the head my husband had to help he to let the possum go. haven't seen anymore possums since but now when he goes out side to potty he is always hunting and every singal time i open the bed room door they run under there but nothing yet. But now im scared that now that he has killed it will change his demeanor towards other domestic animals is there any thing i can do about this? Oh by the way he has a new nick name (Possum) Thank you for letting me tell my story yes that is how many babies i have it is like romper room here never a dull moment and i love each and everyone as my children |
10-12-2012, 12:32 PM | #20 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: FL, USA
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| I have tons of Possum pix because we have at least one possum family on the property every year. When we had the big 120+ lb Shep/Lab mix, after he learned his territory and we'd turned off the fence, leaving him to believe it was still working......he would roust our resident possum, Petey, almost nightly. Petey got rousted, played dead, and was rescued by us humans so often that he quickly learned we'd be there momentarily, and felt safe with us. We found this out one night after he'd been rousted when I simply grabbed the big dog by his collar, and DH said to Petey, "It's okay now...you're safe." Petey opened one eye, looked around, saw we were holding the dog, got up, and lumbered off into the woods, but looked back over his shoulder as if to say "thanks, again" as he was leaving. Reminded me of Eyore in Winnie the Pooh...and was very hilarious to watch. In all the almost 20 years of resident Petey, Paulie, and Pauline and Pattie possum families on the property, we have yet to have any issues, serious or otherwise, between the pets and the possums. Now, between the possums and the raccoons that trek through looking for food...and the one raccoon family that thinks its a good place to live near and visit often and will come to the door begging for kibble, it appears the possums yield to the raccoons same as they've all done with the big dog...although I've not seen one play dead for a raccoon yet. Regardless, if there's a ruckus outside, I run out hollering for them all to 'cut it out right now or else' even though I have no idea what my 'or else' might be !!!
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10-12-2012, 02:32 PM | #21 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Alabama
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| Another Possum story This happened many years ago when our 10 stall barn was full of horses and we were buying horse feed by the ton and storing it in 50 gallon plastic barrels. We also had four barn cats to help with the mouse population. It seemed like the barn cats were going through way too much kitty kibble. Lo and behold late one night while on foal watch I strolled into the barn to check on the girls I came face to face with a possum. Since possum poop is very dangerous to horses, I was very concerned. So I set a live trap and baited it with canned kitty food. The next morning we had one very large very dead possum in the trap. Well, hubby said it was dead, I said it was playing possum. Hubby did just what hubbys do - he picked up the trap and shook it - and yeppers, the possum was dead . So he took the trap with dead possum out into the yard opened the trap and started shaking it to get the possum out. Well this "dead" possum must of gotten religion real quick like 'cause he sprang to life jumped out of the cage and went into attack mode. He/she was one pissed off possum. Hubby jumped out of the way and the possum gave up the battle and lumbered off into the woods. It was hysterically funny - and of course I DID say, I told you so . |
10-12-2012, 07:27 PM | #22 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: USA
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| Possums will bite. They have alot of teeth. Dogs in the neighborhood have been bitten pretty bad by them. |
10-13-2012, 07:51 AM | #23 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: NY
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| Funny opossum stories! I used to leave food out on my patio for the feral cats at night time. No more! I would look out there at night and I had raccoons, skunks, and opossums having a party on the patio. When I turned on the light they were not impressed. The most forward of all the critters were the raccoons! They would stand on their hind feet and put their forepaws on my patio door looking for more food! One night after I stopped leaving food out I was opening the back door to let my cat in (or so I thought) and a raccoon sticks his head in! I felt like that lady in the commercial that didn't have her glasses and let a raccoon in! Now I leave my patio light on at all times during the dark hours. I hope to discourage the wild ones from visiting. |
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