katysails wrote:
You had to teach people at uni level that possums are nasty SOB's????? OZ
is a very strange place. Everyone here knows that from childhood on....

I've known a few city boys who didn't know, wouldn't believe it when
told, and had to find out the hard way. Most recently a neighbor who
tried to pick up a "dead" possum he found on his porch (the thing had
come up there to eat his dog's food) and had to get stitches plus a
tetanus shot. If that's not scary enough, his insurance company refused
to pay for a rabies shot series and he shrugged it off...

DSK

Doug related: If that's not scary enough, his insurance company refused
to pay for a rabies shot series and he shrugged it off...

He didn't kill the thing and lop off its' head for the State to examine????I
don't go near a "dead" possum without a shovel in my hands.....

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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
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katysails wrote:
He didn't kill the thing and lop off its' head for the State to examine????

Nope. he tried to pick it up, it tore the beejeezus out of him (lucky it
didn't get his neck), and he dropped it (of course) and it ran off into
the woods.

That was idiotic enough, but to shrug off the possibility of rabies is
moronic IMHO. It's been too long since "Old Yeller" was aired....

... I
don't go near a "dead" possum without a shovel in my hands.....

I keep a small stock .22 shorts for just such occasions (and of course,
a shovel). Nobody misses a 'possum except possibly the owls.

What's even funnier is the reaction of these suburban geniuses to the
presence (or even the mention) of snakes.

DSK

Nobody misses a 'possum except possibly the owls

Speaking of owls, my 10 y/o granddaughter just did a section in her science
class where they "investigated" the fewmets of owls to see what their dining
habits were....she thought it was neat until I suggested that the bones were
very much like Skipper the missing hamster.....
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"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
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"katysails" wrote in message
...

Nobody misses a 'possum except possibly the owls

Speaking of owls, my 10 y/o granddaughter just did a section in her
science
class where they "investigated" the fewmets of owls to see what their
dining
habits were....she thought it was neat until I suggested that the bones
were
very much like Skipper the missing hamster.....

Oh, that is so cruel.
We had ducks as youngins, when they got big, Dad got rid of them one day,
Mom made fried chicken that night.
;o

Scotty Potty wrote...

"We had ducks as youngins, when they got big, Dad sent them to college cuz they
was smarter than me."

Scott Vernon wrote:
Oh, that is so cruel.
We had ducks as youngins, when they got big, Dad got rid of them one day,
Mom made fried chicken that night.
;o

Weren't you suspicious when the "fried chicken" had a bill & webbed feet?

DSK

In article , DSK
wrote:

Scott Vernon wrote:
Oh, that is so cruel.
We had ducks as youngins, when they got big, Dad got rid of them one day,
Mom made fried chicken that night.
;o

Weren't you suspicious when the "fried chicken" had a bill & webbed feet?

Read somewhere recently that kids got charged with cruelty to animals
for seeing if it was true that chickens could run with their head
chopped off.

How times have changed. When I was a kid, that's where chicken dinner
came from, and that's what happened to roosters that got a bit too
cocky. They really could run around with their heads chopped off.

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PDW