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Best opossum bait?
Posted on 6/26/21 at 10:33 pm
Posted on 6/26/21 at 10:33 pm
Wet cat food has worked in the past but maggots get on it so quick and make a mess. I tried marshmallows because some old baw told me they loved them. They haven’t touched it in a week. What else you got?
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Posted on 6/26/21 at 10:42 pm to thadcastle
Dry cat food will work. Honestly just about anything will work. I'm fairly sure if you set a foothold and throw it in the back of your truck one will find a way to get in it by morning.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:08 pm to thadcastle
Dry Dog food, eggs, sardines, dry cat food, protein pellets, fish feed pellets, corn, almost anything* that smells like food.
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:49 pm to thadcastle
Curious as to why you would want to catch one?
Posted on 6/26/21 at 11:58 pm to thadcastle
Marshmallows works great for raccoons. Cat or dog food for opossums.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 12:04 am to thadcastle
Fish
Posted on 6/27/21 at 1:54 am to thadcastle
We had a possum that would come up on our second story porch to search for dry dog food to eat, and would do so every night when the dog got old and really didn't give a damn about chasing animals any more.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 4:35 am to thadcastle
When I was a kid, we use to set out string snares and would catch a lot of of possums with an apple slice on the bait stick. It's pretty fragrant and easy to use.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 5:25 am to Geauxtiga
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Try sardines
Get ready to catch any skunk within a mile.
Sardines is the best skunk bait in the world. In the past 3 years or so, I have caught a couple of opossum's, one raccoon, a few neighborhood cats and about 6 foxes (pretty sure I caught the same fox 3 nights in a row).
And 17 damn skunks. I end up relocating them about 10 miles away.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 8:04 am to thadcastle
Sardines definitely work. I have a feral cat living behind my house that I've been trying to catch in a trap baited with sardines. If I leave the trap out overnight, I have a possum in there the next morning every single time.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 8:12 am to jfw3535
I thought possums killed copperheads because they are protected from their venom.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 8:43 am to LEASTBAY
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Curious as to why you would want to catch one?
Posted on 6/27/21 at 8:51 am to LEASTBAY
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Curious as to why you would want to catch one?
Detached garage in the house I rent that the opossum can get in. He shits and pisses all over everything. If he wouldn’t shite and piss everywhere I would leave him alone
Posted on 6/27/21 at 9:43 am to thadcastle
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Detached garage in the house I rent that the opossum can get in. He shits and pisses all over everything. If he wouldn’t shite and piss everywhere I would leave him alone
Why don't you fix it, so he can't get in?
Posted on 6/27/21 at 9:45 am to thadcastle
In my experience, Marshmallows work great for coons because they don’t attract opossums. Usually had my best luck with wet cat food once I had sprayed all my neighbors cats with the water hose to make sure they didn’t repeat their mistakes
Posted on 6/27/21 at 1:14 pm to Icansee4miles
Following so I can bait my yard so more opossums come to my yard and eat all the ticks and water moccasins I have to deal with.
Posted on 6/27/21 at 4:32 pm to auggie
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Why don't you fix it, so he can't get in?
He gets in under the door where the corner of the cement has sunken and cracked. I would poor more concrete and level it off but it isn’t my house
Posted on 6/27/21 at 7:25 pm to thadcastle
Canned or pouch tuna works well. I buy the kind packed in oil and then poke a hole in the can to drip it over and around the trap. Then I open the can and toss a couple of chunks of tuna inside the live trap and stick the can in the fridge. I can get 4-5 baiting out of one can of tuna and I catch possums and coins with this set up. I think whichever one finds it first is the one I catch.
I turn loose all possums though because they really don’t hurt anything and can be really helpful. Coons on the other hand kill chickens and will destroy a stand of sweet corn in one night. I hate those destructive little frickers.
I turn loose all possums though because they really don’t hurt anything and can be really helpful. Coons on the other hand kill chickens and will destroy a stand of sweet corn in one night. I hate those destructive little frickers.
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