[JackRyan]

Possums are chicken killers.

A friend has lost over 10 chickens to the damned things. One evening I am going over there with a flashlight and a silenced pistol.....

So you are saying they aren't ALL bad?

 

[JackRyan]

Before they cleared a lot of land around me, I used to have to roust a possum
that I caught eating my outside cat's food. I scooped them up in a landing
net and tossed em across the road. Haven't seen one for awhile.

Don't leave cat food lay outside all the time and you won't need a cat.

 

[JackRyan]

They actually eat ticks, which is a good thing.

No, they do not.

New Study Says Possums Don't Like Eating Ticks

Many think that opossums eat thousands of ticks. According to a 2021 peer-reviewed study, opossums may not eat ticks at all.

www.fieldandstream.com

 

[JackRyan]

They eat ticks!
When on the job we would get calls of a Racoon in the house and my Sargent was a trapper, the standing (at the time 1988) offer was $5.00 for any thing that had a pelt. Possum, Racoon, Muskrat. etc. My partner would drop off a Have A Heart trap to the home owner, most of the times the question from the home owner was "What do you do with them?" our answer was always the same we take them to Stoke's state Forrest and let them go.
In reality they would get shot in the head with a .22.
One night we got 30 Racoons, we would hit all of the dumpsters at the resturants, schools etc.














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They DO NOT EAT TICKS any more than any other mammal. They eat garbage, feces, chickens... They are nothing but a big disease carrying rat.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/turns-opossums-dont-really-eating-000800876.html

What Diseases Do Opossums Carry?

What Diseases Do Opossums Carry?

www.aaanimalcontrol.com