um...the dog was barking his little butt off so I went out so see what the fuss was all about and I find...
(http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5837/possum6ur.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
The damn thing let me get right up next to it and posed for some glamour shots...Is it a possum???? Somebody tell me, please! :lol:
Looks like a possum to me.
Or Opossum if you wish.
Are you considering it for a Christmas dinner?
Nice pic by the way.
Look here for more info.
http://www.kiva.net/~kiwi/opossum/opossum.htm
It is a possum
It's not playing possum as well as some... :P
The only marsupial indigenous to the US, FWIW.
It's cute, I'm keepin it! :lol: :P
Never mind, it left... :(
Thanks guys, I wasn't sure.
If you dressed it up in red gear, it would look eerily like your avatar...
w00t! Dinner! ;)
true true. :lol:
I got the bear wearing the leathers as a gift a little while ago...it's cute. I love that lil beer belly. I rub it for good luck!
It's from a line called "bad taste bears", I think they are based in the UK. I keep getting them as gifts, but the others are let's just say not appropriate! ;)
opossum...not good pets...lol
It's a possum. It's a giant f%$king rat. I hope you killed it. Worthless creature.
Quote from: AlphaFire X5It's a possum. It's a giant f%$king rat. I hope you killed it. Worthless creature.
It's too cute to kill. I think it's under the deck. It was nice enough to let me come right up next to it. Want me to catch it and send it to you? :lol:
Cute? CUTE?! That thing is vile and disgusting. It's nasty and hideous. They're also pretty stupid.
I can see them being "cute" with their winter coat...the scraggly mangy looking summer ones are icky.
You can send him to me...just like every other mammal on earth, they go good in gumbo.
A rat's more closely related to you than to an opossum... we're both placental mammals. :)
Yea you americans dont know your baskets from your bandicoots ... BTW possum yea made up animal ... the real name is Bandicoot and some of them are so violent they can chew through concrete ... BTW the asian bandicoot is far more agressive than the possum, no drooling or playing dead ... they will attack and kill a rat ... we caught one in a gunny sack and had to toss it under a bus real quick to kill it before it ate through the sack ... insane. OK the Indian Bandicoot is very much a battle hardened sewer dwelling super sized fearless, natural enemy less urban assault monger. No way no possum gonna be anywhere near that.
Cool.
Srinath.
It's an o'possum. In Redneck one says "possum". Waste him/her. Flatline.
Put it in the dumpster.
On a more humerous note: Down South some of the more "colorful" citizens call the armadillo "possum on the half-shell".
Hahahahahahahhahaahhahhahahahahhaaahhhahahaahaha.
Possum is a greasy meat. Not nearly as good as "coon" but a damn coon looks like you're eatin' a dog. The bones look very similar to dog bones.
You take that thang (after you clean him and remove the musk glands) and cut him into quarter or eights, season him up and place sweet potatoes between the sections and bake that coon in the oven........WUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!! My working buddy swears by this recipe.
FINE EATIN'!!!! I've only had it barbequed though. I know people that would fight to have a nice young coon. Don't knock it till you've tried it!!!
Eh, no need to harm it. It won't do you any harm either, unless it has rabies. It is cute; think of it as a big hamster :P
If i am driving my car and I see one in the street I dont try to avoid it!!! In this case less is more. But one time my grandma tried to pick one up cause she thought it was a fur hat!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
All y'all better stop trying to cook my "cute" new friend. I ain't no redneck.... :lol:
Quote from: Old Mr. WilsonI know people that would fight to have a nice young coon. Don't knock it till you've tried it!!!
Raised in the middle of southern swamps...I've had cajuns and backwoods "colored folk" (and I mean "colored" in about 18 different ways) trade bass and trout for a string of carp. I knew I was doomed one day when I caught myself fishing using crushed corn flakes and Big Red as bait intentionally trying to catch carp, and later turning down an apalusa for the half dozen I caught...
Quote from: makenzie71opossum...not good pets...lol
we raised 6 or 7 of these guys from when they were little pinkies.. so cute. they would crawl all over you and hang by their tails off of your fingers. when they got older we gave them to a 'shelter' that re-enters them into the wild after some de humanization.
I'll take a possum in the yard over an armadillo anyday... every year we get more and more armadillos, they tear the yard up...
Quote from: weaselnozewe gave them to a 'shelter' that re-enters them into the wild after some de humanization.
How come YOU didn't handle the dehumanization part? :dunno:
:kiss: :mrgreen:
Couple of things:
I'm really sort of drunk still from last night, but hearing the comparison between "coon bones" and dog bones kind of made me sick to my stomach.
Eating animals suchs as opposum, racoons and dogs is a practice that shouldn't be discussed in mixed company.
You have possums in Michigan? I thought they were a southern thang. Vicious little farks, with teeth like razors. Not good pets! And, yes, some people in the south do EAT them. :?
Quote from: CaffeineYou have possums in Michigan? I thought they were a southern thang. Vicious little farks, with teeth like razors. Not good pets! And, yes, some people in the south do EAT them. :?
Vicious? Coons are vicious...oppossums are little wusses.
Possums are doscile -at least the ones in the north east. The only American marsupial. Not particularly attractive, nor has a great personality. But the one that lived in my back yard was there for years and never caused me a lick of touble. Now the skunk on the other hand....
Docile????????? Well.............some are NOT!!!!!!!!!!
I encountered one many years ago that was flat ass vicious.......as vicious as any coon or DOG. He NEVER "played possum". We managed to get him into a burlap sack and took his ass to the house. He knew all along that that he was gonna be "on the menu"!! hahahahhaahhaa
On another note, at another time, I used to trap for awhile and I found one in my traps caught just by his toes. He was a savage creature. Growling hissing bloody hell. I skulled him with a pan (that I had in my backpack) several times and got him out of the trap and swung him by his hind legs into a tree and thought I'd crushed his skull. Well I put him in my knapsack and my buddy and I went home to practice my "skinning skills" (I was new to the art--still am).........anyway.......that little bastard came to LIFE when I pulled him out of my backpack and I had to fill up an old aquarium that was outside with water and I put on a leather glove and held him by the throat and choked him underwater for a LONG time before he stopped kicking. When I tried to put him "under the knife" he came to again and this time I held him under and pumped his chest while choking him.
My friend Wally said........"Wilson........if he didn't already have a broken foot.....I'd say we ought to let that mean little sonofabitch GO......"
He finally succumbed to unrelenting pressure but I'll always remember him. That was courage and tenacity and never giving up until the end.
I never trapped again after that. Y'all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Peace, Wilson
Quote from: Old Mr. WilsonWe managed to get him into a burlap sack...
Dude, you were trying to put him in a burlap sack...I've got a bunny that'll tkae your arm off if you try to do that. No wonder he was vicious...
thanks for that detailed description, buddy. :o :o :o
that would be nature's speedbump
Is it just me, or does anyone find themselves reading Wilson's posts with an intense redneck/hick accent?
I like how you capitalized Redneck in your first post Wilson, as if it is it's own language.
Merry Christmas ya hear!
Actually Rednecks do have their own language but you'd never get any government grants and taxpayer monies to teach it or accept it as you would/and do the pitiable illiterate mongrel Ebonics.
I am actually a Deltan (flatlander) and not a "piney woods" type that speaks in a what YOU call a "hick twang". I have a deep melodious drawl that you probably couldn't understand either/anyway. However, and wherever we hail from in the Southern states, you can bet your life savings or last dollar that we........true........REAL Southerners (born and raised in the South and esp. the "deep" South )thank God each day that we are not from nor hold the values of the Jew York types and the bleeding heart New Englanders although there are some of our conservative brethren suffering in those states I'm sure.
You from New Jersey? Upon which turnpike do you dwell?
Ok i find the term Jew Yorkers offensive. Climb back into your delta swamp, Wilson, I wouldnt want you to be away from your reptile kin too long.
:lol: OMG Aj...
Quote from: Old Mr. WilsonActually Rednecks do have their own language but you'd never get any government grants and taxpayer monies to teach it or accept it as you would/and do the pitiable illiterate mongrel Ebonics.
I am actually a Deltan (flatlander) and not a "piney woods" type that speaks in a what YOU call a "hick twang". I have a deep melodious drawl that you probably couldn't understand either/anyway. However, and wherever we hail from in the Southern states, you can bet your life savings or last dollar that we........true........REAL Southerners (born and raised in the South and esp. the "deep" South )thank God each day that we are not from nor hold the values of the Jew York types and the bleeding heart New Englanders although there are some of our conservative brethren suffering in those states I'm sure.
You from New Jersey? Upon which turnpike do you dwell?
oooh, did I detect someone getting Offended there?
Hahahha, when the most offensive person gets offended by a simple comment like redneck, you can bet that true hypocrasy shines through- but then again, it's the trademark of Wilson and his inane Klansmen rantings. :lol: There's a reason you losers lost the civil war.
Quote from: CasiCUA.. when the most offensive person gets offended by a simple comment like redneck, you can bet that true hypocrasy shines through....
Actually Wilson isn't the most offensive poster:
http://gstwins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23175&start=60..but he is the runner up :P
What about most likely to kill, skin, and eat a rodent?
Possums are cool, nasty looking, but cool. They serve a purpose too, eating other dead things, that is why they end up roadkill a lot of the time. They are eating old roadkill and become new roadkill.
I was only slightly offended!!!! And he walked himself right into that one.