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Community => Trail Cameras => Topic started by: JohnD on November 05, 2016, 08:17:30 PM

Title: What's with this little opossum?
Post by: JohnD on November 05, 2016, 08:17:30 PM: This guy went by the camera 3 times over a couple of weeks. Is that a way that they carry nesting material around or does this opossum have a stick stuck somewhere that looks very uncomfortable?
Title: Re: What's with this little opossum?
Post by: ghosthunter on November 05, 2016, 08:27:25 PM: Is it possible he is caring nesting material with its tail?
Title: Re: What's with this little opossum?
Post by: Bill W on November 05, 2016, 08:28:24 PM: I think somethings stuck and it should be shot.
Title: Re: What's with this little opossum?
Post by: pd on November 05, 2016, 09:11:30 PM: Nasty, good-for-nothing creatures. There is something stuck on his backside. Insulation or something like that.
Title: Re: What's with this little opossum?
Post by: heronblu on November 05, 2016, 09:20:36 PM: Its carrying leaves with its tail. Very common. If I can find it I have footage of one doing the exact thing.
Title: Re: What's with this little opossum?
Post by: JohnD on November 06, 2016, 05:23:08 AM: I have a couple more videos of some that don't have the leaves from the same camera, I assumed it was a different one since it didn't have a stick up its backside.
Learn something new everyday... opossum carry sticks and leaves with their tails and it looks really weird.
Title: Re: What's with this little opossum?
Post by: Special T on November 06, 2016, 07:37:33 AM: Quote from: pd on November 05, 2016, 09:11:30 PM
Nasty, good-for-nothing creatures. There is something stuck on his backside. Insulation or something like that.
This is not true at all! They eat ticks, don't carry Lyme disease, and are the tasties damn critter out there!
Title: Re: What's with this little opossum?
Post by: heronblu on November 06, 2016, 08:04:36 PM: Quote from: Special T on November 06, 2016, 07:37:33 AM
Quote from: pd on November 05, 2016, 09:11:30 PM
Nasty, good-for-nothing creatures. There is something stuck on his backside. Insulation or something like that.
This is not true at all! They eat ticks, don't carry Lyme disease, and are the tasties damn critter out there!

:yeah: I agree. The amount of ticks they consume is astonishing. For that alone they are welcome on my property any day. Ive never tried to eat them yet. Do you have a good recipe for them?
Title: Re: What's with this little opossum?
Post by: Kit Carson on November 06, 2016, 08:21:22 PM: :chuckle: eatin possum
Title: Re: What's with this little opossum?
Post by: Trapper John on November 06, 2016, 08:42:27 PM: Quote from: heronblu on November 06, 2016, 08:04:36 PM
Quote from: Special T on November 06, 2016, 07:37:33 AM
Quote from: pd on November 05, 2016, 09:11:30 PM
Nasty, good-for-nothing creatures. There is something stuck on his backside. Insulation or something like that.
This is not true at all! They eat ticks, don't carry Lyme disease, and are the tasties damn critter out there!

:yeah: I agree. The amount of ticks they consume is astonishing. For that alone they are welcome on my property any day. Ive never tried to eat them yet. Do you have a good recipe for them?

And they are one critter that won't carry Rabies either!
I've skinned a bunch and As for eating :puke: no thanks
JC :hello:
Title: Re: What's with this little opossum?
Post by: Special T on November 07, 2016, 06:18:53 AM: All the meat on a possum is the legs. I've gutted those guys and will never again. Best way is just to take the thigh and separate it from the body. You end up with 4 chicken thigh & leg combo looking prices of meat... except they all have thumbs.... last time I just baked them over baby red potatoes and chunks of onion.
Title: Re: What's with this little opossum?
Post by: Dead-Eye on November 07, 2016, 06:43:57 AM: It's really hard to tell from the video :dunno:, but that's where Opossums will often carry their young. If there were just two or three, it could look like that. Usually they have six or eight, and they cover the whole back.
Title: Re: What's with this little opossum?
Post by: nwwanderer on November 07, 2016, 07:36:09 AM: While muzzle load hunting that prehensile tail could be useful.