Trapping Opossums

March 30, 2017

Question: My city neighbor is now renting a home and has taken it upon himself to trap local opossums and release them elsewhere. He says he is taking them to a county road (Dry Creek) but there is no way to verify this. We have lived in our home for 15 years and so we, along with our neighbors, are concerned. We have lived with the possums and raccoons for a lot of years without issues. This tenant intends to exterminate them. Is there anything we can do? (Tyler)

Answer: “All furbearing and nongame mammals that are legal to trap must be immediately euthanized or released” (California Code of Regulations Title 14, section 465.5(g)(1)). So it is not legal to transport opossums elsewhere for release. Possums should not be “relocated” from where they were trapped for many reasons, the most important being to prevent the spread of disease, and immediately releasing the opossums would not take care of the “pest” problem that your neighbor probably wants to solve. There are other options that you could inform your neighbor about though. “Keep me Wild” is a campaign that strives to limit conflicts between wild animals and humans. More information about how your neighbor can avoid problems with opossums may be found at the Keep Me Wild website.

I wonder what Keep Me Wild website suggests for racoons wrecking my yard.  They are shitting on top of my tool shed roof.  I have to put cayenne pepper to keep them away. 

.22 cal pellets work pretty good and are quiet enough.

We hire a guy that puts mountain lion feces and mountain lion urine soaked hay around to keep raccoons out of our gardens. It works really good have to have him come and do it about every 4 months

We hire a guy that puts mountain lion feces and mountain lion urine soaked hay around to keep raccoons out of our gardens. It works really good have to have him come and do it about every 4 months

What's this guy's number? Is he local? I'm down the road in Napa.

We hire a guy that puts mountain lion feces and mountain lion urine soaked hay around to keep raccoons out of our gardens. It works really good have to have him come and do it about every 4 months

What's this guy's number? Is he local? I'm down the road in Napa.

This is the link to guy guys website http://www.wildlifeout.net/

Cheers
Nick stone

You can buy mt lion urine at home depot and other stores. But I've determined that my own urine works better. I pee a perimeter around my backyard pond every few weeks.

You can buy mt lion urine at home depot and other stores. But I've determined that my own urine works better. I pee a perimeter around my backyard pond every few weeks.

This works even better if you've been eating raccoons! 

You can buy mt lion urine at home depot and other stores. But I've determined that my own urine works better. I pee a perimeter around my backyard pond every few weeks.

You should bottle that stuff and sell it.

You can buy mt lion urine at home depot and other stores. But I've determined that my own urine works better. I pee a perimeter around my backyard pond every few weeks.

You should bottle that stuff and sell it.

If I'm in your "neighbors hood" I'll pee in your yard for a 12 pack of quality beer, no charge except for da beer.

This is so simple: 

“All furbearing and nongame mammals that are legal to trap must be immediately euthanized or released”

Trap, immediately plink in head with .22 then release.

This is so simple: 

“All furbearing and nongame mammals that are legal to trap must be immediately euthanized or released”

Trap, immediately plink in head with .22 then release.

It says "or" not "and", so if you kill it, you can't release it.

It does "NOT" say that they must be released alive   

I've had 100% success with trapping them, plinking them in the head, releasing them and then tackling them, followed by ripping their grimy pelts right off, rubbing their bloody vermin remains all over my bare chest, back, and arms, drinking that beer, and FINALLY pissing all over my yard.

....Maybe the beer part was the 1st step....  I dunno.   

I've had 100% success with trapping them, plinking them in the head, releasing them and then tackling them, followed by ripping their grimy pelts right off, rubbing their bloody vermin remains all over my bare chest, back, and arms, drinking that beer, and FINALLY pissing all over my yard.

....Maybe the beer part was the 1st step....  I dunno.   

I like your style.