Re: response to water garden


>Speaking of less desirable wildlife, I have a young possum who hangs
>around in my garden every night.  I don't want the little bugger there.
>I guess they can carry fleas and diseases that my cat may pick up--I've
>thrown gravel at him, banged on the fence with a broom handle, and
>yelled and waved my arms, and he seems barely disconcerted...just moves
>over a bit on the fence, or slowly lumbers behind a shrub, but he's
>always back.  What attracts them?

Maybe he likes the show.....
The only trouble we ever had with possums was they seemed to enjoy
stimulating the dog to bark at them....walking back and forth on top of the
fence, keeping the dog running back and forth barking.,,,in the middle of
the night.

>  A friend of a friend
>had an entire extended family of possums move in under her house in the
>crawl space, unbeknownst to her, until she turned on the heat this fall
>and was blasted with this horrible foul odor from them defecating &
>urinating in the crawl space.  They'd even gotten into some furnace
>ductwork. I checked my crawl space screens to make sure they're secure.
>Should I worry about this one guy, or is he the scout that will bring
>his kin?

This sounds like racoons.  Possums are loners, racoons travel in families.
Racoons are much more intelligent, quick, inventive and cause a lot more
damage.  They are even more interested in "entertainment".  They are more
likely to "fish" in your watergarden, be attracted by pet food, etc
Jane
Santa Barbara.



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Jane Reese
E-mail:  jreese@silcom.com
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