Janba Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Free to good home 1 BC and 1 dally - must be possumless. Said dogs drive their owner mad nightly by trying to catch the possum that lives in the neighbours roof each night for an after dinner snack. Said possum sits there and looks at them from the roof top causing much barking and whining and then proceeds to walk along the top of the fence to the large tree in the backyard. When the dogs are bought inside they sit at the back door and whine to get let out to continue hunting possums. I hate that possum which is currently making loud hissing type noises at what I assume is another possum coming into its "territory" and said dogs are getting frantic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agility Dogs Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Free to good home 1 BC and 1 dally - must be possumless.Said dogs drive their owner mad nightly by trying to catch the possum that lives in the neighbours roof each night for an after dinner snack. Said possum sits there and looks at them from the roof top causing much barking and whining and then proceeds to walk along the top of the fence to the large tree in the backyard. When the dogs are bought inside they sit at the back door and whine to get let out to continue hunting possums. I hate that possum which is currently making loud hissing type noises at what I assume is another possum coming into its "territory" and said dogs are getting frantic. I can't offer them a home, but I can send two BC's to help them in their endeavours! CK sits for hours on our deck staring at the powerlines over the road and feels it is his duty to let us know when we are about to be invaded. (fortunately only one bark!) Xena is a little less subtle about it and goes NUTS when a possum approaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Souff Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I could perhaps ask one of the local owls if he would like to move to your neighbourhood for a few nights. I shone the torch into a tall tree recently because of some strange noises I heard. What I saw was staggering - a large owl had decided he was going to have possum on the menu that night! Goodnight possum! Souff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janba Posted November 17, 2009 Author Share Posted November 17, 2009 Sometimes I wish they would just catch it. It teases them on purpose as it knows they can't get at the fence - I have a ping string around the bottom. The 3rd dog stays in and whenever I go crook at the other 2 jumps up on me and says "I'm a good boy - I don't hunt possums" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atua Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I too am having problems with a possum at the moment. They are a real pain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete.the.dog Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I too am having problems with a possum at the moment. They are a real pain Pete's a quiet boy, apart from the occasional bark at the neighbours dog - but that's another story. The only time I have heard him bark continually was when I got home at 2am and found him barking at a tree - poor neighbours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal House Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Crate the dogs if they are whinging at the back door. Distract them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fainty_girl Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Sometimes I wish they would just catch it. Awww don't wish that! One of my dogs went through a stage of being a possum serial killer...not good! Thankfully she is well past that stage now and is too lazy to be interested in them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voloclydes Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 our jrts looovee possums.... for dinner! one fell out of the roof of my shed.... all hell broke loose. i thought i'd been attacked, if possum was not injured from the fall they would not have caught it. now they know what makes those noises so we get much more than whining. they will spend hours staring at the trees, in hope if they have smelt one. makes camping out very very noisey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tilly Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I lost my palm trees in the backyard to possums ... the dog decapitated them at about a metre off the ground by scratching the trees. Had the dogs at the vet at least twice with scratches from the possums ... but there was a few that came off worse for wear. The message must have got around the neighbourhood as the relatives stopped turning up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casowner Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Nanananananananan Not Listening ............goes outside with her bowl of fruit for the ring tails..................... If one possum goes another will move in, probably easier to rehome the dogs Just joking, I have no help to offer sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttaburra Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I could perhaps ask one of the local owls if he would like to move to your neighbourhood for a few nights. I shone the torch into a tall tree recently because of some strange noises I heard. What I saw was staggering - a large owl had decided he was going to have possum on the menu that night! Goodnight possum! Souff Send it to meeee pleese!! I want that owl and all it's relatives too. Janba - isn't it a pain!! my dog hurls himself at the window, because the power cable attaches to the house above that window and the possums use it as an aerial footway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Fox Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Tell your neighbours to be careful. Mum swore for months that she could hear a possum running around on the roof then one day she put a pot of water on to boil and maggots started dropping out of the exhuast fan Poor possum had fallen down in the roof and died. He couldn't have been in there for long -certainly not long enough to stink the house out thank God- but long enough. She had to call someone out to pull panels off the roof and remove it. It was terrible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Souff Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 I could perhaps ask one of the local owls if he would like to move to your neighbourhood for a few nights. I shone the torch into a tall tree recently because of some strange noises I heard. What I saw was staggering - a large owl had decided he was going to have possum on the menu that night! Goodnight possum! Souff Send it to meeee pleese!! I want that owl and all it's relatives too. Janba - isn't it a pain!! my dog hurls himself at the window, because the power cable attaches to the house above that window and the possums use it as an aerial footway. Will put you on the list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Flying Furball Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 How about some piccies of said dogs and possum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie Bait Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 We had a possum crawl out of our toilet at work today My poor boss was on the toilet, got up and flushed and the toilet wouldnt flush.....so she waits a couple of seconds and flushes again and next thing out crawls a possum. We had to get Pete the Possum man out to remove wet and stinky possum from our patient toilet (we work at a dental surgery) Sure gave us a laugh....boss wasnt seeing the funny side of it yet though ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickojoy Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 I have to crate my dogs at night, or they are trying to jump into the trees and eat them. Now they are crate trained, at 8.30pm they bark at the back door to put them into bed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Got Spots Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Our BC in Tassie LURVES possums She will bark at a tree non-stop until dad shoots the possum (brushtails only) - then she is quiet. Possum then matures on our "backlawn" (area where there is no bush and grass tries to grow) for approx 1 week then decides it is good to eat. Needless to say we always wear shoes out side you never know what will be lying around. She was at the vet for a week with pulmonary oedema from her dilated cardiomyopathy (at diagnosis) - she wouldn't eat the fresh chicken wings or expensive dog food that was offered but ate the matured dead possum in the backyard. YUCK Having said that she is 10 this year, deaf and partially blind but manages to hunt wallaby successfuly. Particularly good at hunting roadkill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MsKatie Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 OUr kelpie bounces off the fence trying to get the possums - don't know what she hopes to achieve - shake the fence till they fall out? ;) But when we had a possum in the wall of the bedroom she slept through the whole hissing and scratching it did - in fact I yelled at her thinking she was making the noise She wouldn't know what to do with one if she got it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms James Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 We're in suburban hell where we've destroyed all the local wildlife and the only native species left are some very curious-looking bugs that seem to be stuck to each other's bottoms most days... So send on your BC and dally here, Janba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now