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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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I need to persuade a possum to leave it's roost in my garage pretty much within the next 24 hours - it's occupying some items I want to remove.
Not interested in killing or injuring, just want it to shift. So - guns, knives, flamethrowers, spears, capsicum spray and Leopard tanks are out. I've tried disturbing the items and that seems to have made it more resolute in staying. Having been bitten and scratched by possums before, I'm not in a hurry to bring about physical confrontation. So, yes, suggestions requested please. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2009
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ask it nicely to leave??
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Away on leave
Join Date: Apr 2019
Location: ACT
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Hire a big-a$$ trap-box and drive it miles away and drop it off in the bush somewhere.
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Remove your items when the possum is out and about at night.
You could try setting up a bright spotlight in there to flush him out at night while you get your stuff. Leave some apple slices behind as a peace offering.
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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Thank you all.
I tried PB's suggestion first, for a number of hours off and on. I even offered to make it a nice blanky bed from collapsed Commodore roof linings. No dice, I reckon it had smoked a point of meth and all it wanted to do was have a go. Eventually - after basically giving up and asking for suggestions - Meth Possum crawled out and skanked off into the night. ![]() I was nearly at the stage of asking the parish priest to come and baptise it, because then it would only return for Easter and Christmas... |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Pt Lincoln far side South Oz
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this story hasn't finished
![]() remedy....remove the fan as well.
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FG XR6 Ute & Sedan
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Location: Bibra Lake WA
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I thought this was going to be a thread about "Possum" Bourne's gear changing technique.
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Join Date: Aug 2018
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Call Wires, Tell 'em you think It's Injured.. They'll come & take It off Your Hands for you..
https://www.wires.org.au/ |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Join Date: May 2010
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Floodlight in the current location will upset their sleeping, so they'll relocate.
Also spray Korean tea in the area. A bit of useless info once given to me by a wires volunteer, because i wasnt told exactly what type of tea. Apparently it smelt horrible, and possums dont like the smell, so move on. Just what you want the garage smelling like. Possum wee and Rank smelling tea... I quite like the little creatures. A Kiwi friend was telling me how hated they are in NZ (as Five 7 has mentioned) If they see them near the road, they'll swerve to hit them. An introduced pest that have evolved to be bigger than ours. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Yep they are fair game here, lots are shot trapped and poisoned plus fur is plucked along with skins for garments. Even with all that it doesn't seem to put a dent in population, always heaps of roadkill around my way.
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FG XR6 Ute & Sedan
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I don't know; we send the Kiwis our possums to distract them from their sheep but they don't seem the least bit grateful.
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Location: Sunny Downtown Wagga Wagga. NSW.
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They think they're Hobbits.
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DIY Tragic
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Sydney, more than not. I hate it.
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I’m getting mental pictures of a hobbit-skin rug, like the tiger ones with a whole head...
So far, no further possum issues. Meth Possum and his shazza appear to have relocated for now, no ginseng tea spray required. I genuinely like the critters but they are impossible to domesticate like a cat or dog. If they could keep their 1’s and 2’s outdoors and let me trim their claws we might have a deal. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Haha Oz treats them like a sacred Hindi cow, here public enemy No1. Have had mates rescue baby's from the pouch after mums being dispatched, perfect pets up to 8 or 9 months then they turn, like something out of the Walking Dead. They go from cuddly furry cute. to yellow fanged hissing ball of evil. Then we did get all breeding stock from Tazzy. I think it can run up to $100 kg for hand plucked fur, not bad if you want to get off your butt in a slow country town.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Adelaide
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Some councils will hire out possum traps, but being a protected species, there are rules about where you can release them, my council specifies that you can’t release them any more than 50m from where you catch them, stupidly. I’ve spent many years excluding them from my roof space and found they were lifting capping tiles to get access, I only succeeded when a roof resto mortared them down tight.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Too true, be good if they could swim.
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