I have a neighbor who was country born and country bred. His cat is never allowed in the house. He feeds the cat outside, near his back door. I don't think he realizes that the food the cat leaves behind attracts flies, mice, rats, and other pests, including possums. Any leftover food should be promptly removed after a cat or dog has eaten.
The picture shows a possum I caught in a trap I had placed on my neighbor's property. I have released the critter. It just may have a litter of little ones awaiting it's return. I don't even want to think about Granny Clampett serving up this animal with a 'mess' of sweet potatoes.
The trap was intended for a raccoon which has started eating my neighbor's corn. Last year, a raccoon destroyed "every" stalk of corn my neighbor had planted. It also destroyed "every" stalk of corn I had planted. That hurt!
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My husband and I used to leave food out for the opossums and we would watch them come to eat at dusk. We were both country born and bred but we love animals of all kinds.
I also leave food out for all the little critters...5 crows, 2 squirrels, 2 skunks, 1 raccoon, a couple of stray cats, and a mouse who lives under the front step. I have 3 bird feeders, and a bird bath as a water source.
This is very true. Cat food near the back door will bring animals closer to the house. Plus the rain gets on the food and ruins it with mold. I did this in the past by putting food, way far away from my house, but where I live, the cats rarely get it, the wild animals do. I live wild animals, don't get me wrong, including black bears, but do not want to surprise one or run into one.
It's better that I feed my cats in the house.
Have a blessed day!
----Robyn
i feed my possums and racoons. love em.
Please tell me what do I feed for possums and raccoons? Thank you
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So many different opinions - how wonderful it is that everyone can express their likes and dislikes according to their particular lifestyle.
One summer our cat decided she wanted to be outside all day and night. My mother said to go ahead and put her food and water out. Then, here came the raccoons, skunks and possums. Then more raccoons skunks and possums. Then they started fighting amounst themselves. Our poor kitty! They didn't try to get her but she was scared. So I went out and frightened the critters away, and brought her and the food and water in. I never fed her outside again.
14 days ago, I came down to my fresh coffee, and started hearing noises INSIDE my wall, directly BEHIND my refrigerator. I heard the noise flutter, peck, peck, peck, fly, and walk around inside the rafters between my first and second floors. Our maintenance staff found rodent droppings in the wall, but I knew it was a LIVE BIRD. They thought it was a rodent. I insisted that on day 8, much to my dismay, they found a dead grackle or starling inside my walls.
Opossums are NOT pests. They don't have fleas, get rabies and eat their weight in disease ridden ticks...
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