Automatic compost tumbler.

Worth1 · January 23, 2014

One of these critters comes by every night to turn my compost pile.

The thing is getting so tame it wont even run off when I come out.

I like opossums they are welcome here and I think they are cute.

Worth

peppero · January 23, 2014

WE HAVE HAD RESISDENT POSSOMS FOR SOME TIME AND THEY ARE SO FUNNY WHEN THEY REALIZE THEY HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED. THEY DONT BOTHER MY CATS AND VICE VERSA. IF THE CATS LEAVE A MOUSE OR SOMETHING ELSE THEY WILL TAKE CARE OF IT FOR YOU. WE JUST LET THEM ALONE.

JON

b54red · January 23, 2014

I think they are funny but they aren't too bright or they wouldn't come into the yard with eight dogs. I have managed to save a few that were treed but most of the ones that climb the fence don't make it.

Bill

Got Worms? · February 12, 2014

If I had a pet 'possum, I'd name him Stuart.

ginger2778 · February 12, 2014

I think you may change your mind when it starts to eat your beautiful ripe pineapple you just took almost 2 years to grow

we caught ours "red pawded"

Best way to catch one and give it a new home without harming it? Get a 30 gallon smooth plastic garbage can, tilt it sideways on something it can climb up on, we used our hot tub ladder, and put cat food inside it. It will climb up the ladder and down into the trash can to eat, but the can is so slick and deep that it can't get back out.
We just put a lid on the can and drove it to its new home in the everglades, unharmed.
Just in case you wanted to know.

Marsha

Worth1 · February 12, 2014

Quote:

Originally Posted by ginger2778

I think you may change your mind when it starts to eat your beautiful ripe pineapple you just took almost 2 years to grow

we caught ours "red pawded"

Best way to catch one and give it a new home without harming it? Get a 30 gallon smooth plastic garbage can, tilt it sideways on something it can climb up on, we used our hot tub ladder, and put cat food inside it. It will climb up the ladder and down into the trash can to eat, but the can is so slick and deep that it can't get back out.
We just put a lid on the can and drove it to its new home in the everglades, unharmed.
Just in case you wanted to know.

Marsha

I let the pineapple freeze and everything else that cant handle the weather.
And I mean everything.

I made a commitment last year that if it cant handle the weather here or my sprinkler system it is going to die.

This is for reasons I cant discuss in public.

It was real hard to leave all of the plants out that night.

Worth

January 23, 2014	#1
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	Automatic compost tumbler. One of these critters comes by every night to turn my compost pile. The thing is getting so tame it wont even run off when I come out. I like opossums they are welcome here and I think they are cute. Worth

January 23, 2014	#2
peppero Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: selmer, tn Posts: 2,944	WE HAVE HAD RESISDENT POSSOMS FOR SOME TIME AND THEY ARE SO FUNNY WHEN THEY REALIZE THEY HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED. THEY DONT BOTHER MY CATS AND VICE VERSA. IF THE CATS LEAVE A MOUSE OR SOMETHING ELSE THEY WILL TAKE CARE OF IT FOR YOU. WE JUST LET THEM ALONE. JON

January 23, 2014	#3
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	I think they are funny but they aren't too bright or they wouldn't come into the yard with eight dogs. I have managed to save a few that were treed but most of the ones that climb the fence don't make it. Bill

February 12, 2014	#4
Got Worms? Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: NY Zone 5b/6a Posts: 546	If I had a pet 'possum, I'd name him Stuart.

February 12, 2014	#5
ginger2778 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10 Posts: 9,283	I think you may change your mind when it starts to eat your beautiful ripe pineapple you just took almost 2 years to grow we caught ours "red pawded" Best way to catch one and give it a new home without harming it? Get a 30 gallon smooth plastic garbage can, tilt it sideways on something it can climb up on, we used our hot tub ladder, and put cat food inside it. It will climb up the ladder and down into the trash can to eat, but the can is so slick and deep that it can't get back out. We just put a lid on the can and drove it to its new home in the everglades, unharmed. Just in case you wanted to know. Marsha