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Does anyone have any helpful advice on what to do to deter possums? Someone told me moth balls. Do i spread them out? or is putting them in a bucket hanging higher up going to work too? Any other ideas?
@miritchka: One of the problems that I have noticed in Flatbush/Midwood is the lack of covers for the trash bins that are outside peoples’ homes. If I were a possum/racoon/squirrel I would definately come to F/M. Between the thrown out gefilte fish, chulent, kugel and other delicacies it’s a virtual feast.
Possums and many other animals have a natural aversion to mint, especially peppermint. They make special garbage bags which are infused with a peppermint smell, which I’ve been told are very effective at keeping animals away. You can also buy peppermint oil and soak some rags with it, then place them around your property.
Please avoid using mothballs. They smell horrible, give many people headaches, and their main ingredient is a known carcinogen. What’s worse, once you take them away the smell does not go away. Peppermint, on the other hand, smells great! Hatzlacha!
What are you trying to deter possums from doing?
You likely have a opposum problem not possum. The ones in America are opposums and different species than possums. Carry on.
Move to Australia.
That’s where possums live.
They have no opossums.
Or adopt a pet tiger. Much more attractive than an opossum and will take care of the problem in 1 evening.
miritchka, Speak to an exterminator. Some do exterior work.
Possums are an Australian animal that resemble the American Oppossums but a totally different species (though both are marsupials). The American ones can be a health pest (they apparently carry serious diseases that they are immune to but can spread, such as rabies), so I suggest calling a professional exterminator or local wildlife control agency.
miritchka, tell them to take the opossum far, far away.
Hope it works out.
Double your garbage bags, or use heavy-duty black ones.
Let me get this straight. Possums are Australian. Opossums are American. What do the Irish have? O’Possums?
There is a different animal named possum, but opossums are also called possums in the hope that they’ll believe it and move to Australia.
Oh-possum can you see?
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