opposum question

[rugger]

my brother has a bad opposum problem and i would likk some info on trapping them, or what ever it take to get some of them out of there. there coming up to the house and they have little kids and i don't want them to get bit or anything so please let me know what i could do for bait i do have some live traps out there now but i didn't get anything yet

[glnmiller]

I usually live trap about 5 or 6 opposum a year. They are really easy to trap, I use whatever I have available to bait them into the trap, meat or fish has seemed to work the best. I have even used dog food.
Be patient, it might take a few days to trap them, are they stealing the bait? Check the tension on the trip plate, and adjust it pretty light.

[Hunter54]

I seemed to be pretty good at catching them in what I thought were fox and coyote sets!!:rant:

[trout]

Box traps set with pizza scraps will work.
Please don't relocate the possums, dispatch them and bury the carcasses.

[rugger]

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o70/ruger48731/Image063.jpg




oh yeah one of these too




http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o70/ruger48731/Image064.jpg

[cliffd]

dat p-p-p-possum looks p-p-p-p-pissed!

The neighbor is having a problem too. Looks like I will be catching some real soon too.

[rugger]

he wasn't p p p p pissed for very long :evilsmile

i let the coon go he was big but he wasn't my target lol