I caught and released, about 3 miles from home, a possum. Can it find its way back here?
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It can, but it's more likely it will find a place it likes better near where you released it.
I hope the possum was a male; if female, you may have taken her from her babies this time of year. If she had babies, they will not survive a day and night without their mom and milk. A possum can wander for miles, but if it finds a good hunting area, it will stay.
It is illegal to relocate them because they are highly territorial and will be killed almost immediately
It's not likely. I had a nest of eight (yes, eight) possums make their home under my house one year. I managed to trap them one by one in a homemade thingamabob I rigged up and released them all in the same spot a few miles away from our house. (Most of them were about half grown, so I was pretty sure they were a family and I wanted them to be in the same geographical area.) Since it was wooded with a fresh water source nearby I was pretty sure they'd prefer that spot to ours, which was in the middle of a town of 15,000.
We have no possums up here in Canada, so I am interested to know if it comes back as well. Only time will tell, I guess! Although how will you tell if it is the same one, or another one that has moved in?
We have lots of possums here in Canada. Southern Ontario. I have relocated 9 this year with another about to go.
Just read the information on how to get rid of possums which I will try out this evening! Thanks so much for these helpful hints
I trapped one and took it 2 miles from home. pretty sure i just trapped him again the next day.
Trapped one in my kitchen. Turned him loose outside. He came back two weeks later and was on the back of my sink. (it was a baby half grown. I let him get used to my voice, put on some welding gloves, and threw a towel over him and put him in a cage. NOTE: I wouldn't have done that with a full grown one, and I watched his reaction to me very closely for an hour or two.
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