HAs anyof yalls dogs got a hold...

of any Opossums? i tell ya what i thought them suckers would put up a little fight . thismorning i went and took two of my dogs out to condition a little . when me and my female were walking in their was an opossum walking and she grabbed that thing quicker than lightnin. matter of 3 seconds that thing was a gone pecan , i was impressed. i was always told that opossums put up a good fight. NOt this one

 

o yea for the record ... i opened up the things mouth and that sucker had razor blades for teeth

 

:confused: :confused: :confused: :rolleyes: so what are you saying , your judjing your dogs proformance on a possum ?? lol

 

dont quite understand what you are getting at here? A possum's one thing and a game dog is another. Im confused LOL

 

I had one living under my house once My bitch would bark her head off and scratch at the soil where he was at for weeks. One day I let her out, she reached right under the porch and shook the hell out of the SOB. It was over pretty quick but yea those things do have some teeth on em. The one she took was covered in potting soil so all you could see was eyes and teeth.

To this day my pups taken a ground hog, a few birds and maybe 10 or 12 rats.

 

ha ha yea they got one on you tube ...... old female got a ground hog

 

i was under assumption that a wild animal would put up a fight .... i wasnt expecting a 3 second hold and death. i have seen cats put up a better fight

 

Ha its just a possum. I mean I wouldn't want to be locked in a closet with one but they aren't much to write home about. I've heard that mother possums will fight and protect their young but I haven't run across one. Another thing to consider is that the possum could have been playing dead, where did you get rid of it?

 

true ... i have had a couple people tell me that them things put up a fight.... maybe it was a racoon???? i picked it up with a shovel and buried it...... plus i live out in the city, i dont come across wild animals often. they kid of spooky lookin

 

I'll give you that. They are spooky as hell. Don't see how some people get the nerve to eat them.

 

eat them???? you know people that eat em? i had seen it lastnight climbing a fence and it looks at you with these eyes like it knows ya. they will just sit and look at ya . they got a guy around here that catches Nutra rats and he said his mom makes stew with em.

 

They usually "play dead" if given the chance. A serious minded pup could kill one easily. I stay in a wooded area and I check the dog's houses daily to see if they've killed something and cached it in their house. I've found large rat snakes, raccon, and possum. DOA

 

they keep the animals in their houses?ha ha i think she would have eaten the thing if i would have left her. i think it was racoons that put up a fight then. how big racoons get? maybe 20 pounds?

 

it was probably "playing possum", my dog got a hold of one and it went limp, got her to put it on the ground. Kept on walking turned back and saw it walk off...

 

Possums are known to fake dead until coast is clear

 

its a bloody possum. my mums cat used to beat em up when it was in its prime.
best game bred cat ive ever seen.

 

My white dog got a hold of one and shook it to death pretty fast. Hell, my Labrador Retriever mix killed one lol

 

I used to hunt the nasty things back when the hides were worth 3 or 4 bucks each.Out in the open they usually "play possum" It's nothing for a hound to kill one,let alone a bulldog.I've even kicked them and they curl up and play dead.But they will put up a better fight when cornered in a hole or something,they don't play possum there.A dog and coon is alot more interesting but still no match for a good dog,but an inexperianced pup or smaller dog will learn a thing or two on his first coon.

 

Actually,I do know people that eat them on occasion.Meat is clean once you skin it.

It depends on your location and their food supply on how big they get.Where I hunt in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas,the food supply is pretty much what they find in the woods and streams,so they're not as big as the ones farther north.Most I've caught have ranged from 14 to 20 pounds average,my personal biggest was a big 29 pounder that only had 3 feet.He apparently lost one in a trap at some point.My cousin used to hunt up towards Iowa and with all the corn grown up there,he used to catch some 25 to 30 pounds fairly often.It seems like they just averaged a few pounds bigger up there.Where he was hunting,they were eating like pigs.