You know your day is f***ed when...

[haunted]

... you have to take a baseball bat to a possum at 3:30am. Chances are his day may be worse though.

[peewee_RotA]

I have to say that the fact that you killed a possum with a baseball bat (in the middle of the night) is nothing but skillz

[Krlll Mule]

No dog?  My mutt takes care of the possums.  He used to kill them, but now he just throws them around the yard for a while until he gets bored with them.  They have been "playing possum", of course, and eventually slip off.  Are they after your chickens?

[haunted]

Yeah it got one, poor thing was screaming with no neck basically... combination of me being mad about that and getting woken up because of an ugly ass possum... so I stepped up to the plate and mark mcguired him. i was in a rage lol... thing literally flew out of the park(out of view), it was a homer.

then i tilted back a bottle of whiskey..... was the most tame chicken I've ever had. That little bastard... but hell, it's nature. Lets just say I "naturally selected" him to be the next to go, if you recall any of Tubby's funny posts about that.

[yahoo]

... you have to take a baseball bat to a possum at 3:30am. Chances are his day may be worse though.

Could be worse if it was a Llama

[[BTF]Sigma]

I found this tribute for your chicken.



And this video recording of the ensuing event


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9x0t95FiMA

[QuakeDuke]

... you have to take a baseball bat to a possum at 3:30am. Chances are his day may be worse though.

When you roll outta the rack and land knee deep in cold cold water and you live on top of a hill.

QD

[|iR|Focalor]

A couple summers ago, I spotted a possum waddling up from the creek towards my neighbors house in their backyard. I went out there with a baseball bat. At first, I was thinking I was gonna beat it to death. But then I realized it wasn't even on my property. I was mainly worried about it getting into whatever they had sitting around on their back porch and tearing shit up. I thought they weren't home, but I wasn't 100% sure, so I didn't think it would be the best idea to KILL it, they might object to that. So instead I just kinda bonked it on the head a few times trying to get it to run back into the woods. The damn thing was slow and stubborn as hell though. Was the ugliest little fucker I've ever seen in my life. Looked like it had patches of hair falling out all over it. Took me damn near 10 minutes of rapping it on the skull with the bat and kicking it in the ass to get it to finally waddle it's dumb ass back to the woods. I swear, I've seen fuckin' turtles move faster.

If it had been in MY yard... it would've been a grease spot in the grass, 'cause I would've beat it into a pile of goo and guts.

Personally, I wouldn't let a dog of mine fuck with a possum. They are as bad about rabies and other diseases as raccoons.

[Krlll Mule]

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Personally, I wouldn't let a dog of mine fuck with a possum. They are as bad about rabies and other diseases as raccoons.

He's had the shots, but he's the one doing the biting if it comes down to it.  Free range country dogs go through encounters from time to time. Last year he was attacked by a pack of coyotes and had wounds from head to tail.  Poor thing was so sore he couldn't lay down in his bed of straw.  He just stood up and tried to sleep.  Friends said I should have taken him to the vet, but he's not the type to quietly be picked up and loaded in a vehicle.  I think it's the chow and husky in him. Benign neglect and time allowed him to heal. He is one of the best dogs I've ever owned.....always with me when I'm outside (except when I'm shooting a gun), never barks unless there is something to bark about, and stays close to the house ALL the time.