I have an ROUS in my compost bin
He is a possum.
I tried to chase him out with a shovel, but he just... well... he played possum.
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Monday, September 13, 2010
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He is a possum.
I tried to chase him out with a shovel, but he just... well... he played possum.
Recommendations?
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Mazzucco
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9/13/2010 11:30:00 AM
5 comments:
First off, two comments on the ROUS moniker. As you well know, possums aren't technically rodents. More importantly, that is a marsupial of unusual size since it's the smallest I've ever seen. Apparently we grow our possums a mite bit bigger out here in Kansas. It look more like an undersized NYC rat.
Of course, the possums I've encountered recently were shortly thereafter no longer "playing" possum. I'm not sure what your municipality's views on discharging firearms might be though. I do believe the shovel would work.
As for the next step, unfortunately the BLD member most likely to provide a possum recipe is currently in the thick of a heated political campaign.
Thanks for the reply.
I did not know possums were marsupials, though perhaps I should have, since most of the blogs about possums in the compost were from Australia, and Australia is entirely peopled with marsupials. And you must have suspected I would have known the animal's origin, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
In any case, it;'s bigger than the mice and chipmunks we usually get, and smaller than a rabbit. It does look smaller than I imagined a possum would be.
Unfortunately, it might be illegal for me to kill the possum in my town without a permit to do so. And everything I read says it doesn't do any good because his cousin will just move in to take his place. Either I have to seal off my compost bin so it can't get back in (which I'm not going to do) or tame the wild beast and make it my pet. I will call it Wendy, in honor of Kansas Dad's hair.
However, I am going to see Lincoln and Laura this Saturday. Maybe as a thank-you I should bring some fresh-killed possum that they can put into a soup. Do you think Laura would like that?
Update:
Wendy is dead. Evidently she did not want to be in the compost bin. She must have fallen in, and then couldn't escape. She wallowed in freakish misery forever (until she died).
She started to smell, so I shoveled her out of the compost, dug a shallow grave, and buried her so that my kids would not play with her carcass.
After I skinned and filleted the most scrumptious parts.
So Lincoln did have time to share his recipes then? I guess 72% of the vote didn't require a heated campaign effort!
BTW - Loved the Wendy reference. I almost snarfed the water I was drinking onto the keyboard.
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