a few years ago, some helpful neighbors saw a possum on the areaway beside my house, and thought it looked sick, so they trapped it under a basket or box of some kind and brought it to my front steps...
I called animal control, and they came out pretty quickly--this was sometime between 7 and 9 at night. They looked at the critter and said, yeah--that’s a possum all right--looks ok to us--and said they would take it and release it in cobbs creek park. I felt that was a pretty sensible response, although I’d rather the neighbors had just left the critter alone... (a few years before that, our beagle was spending a long time under a holly tree at the back of our next door neighbors yard, so I finally went out to see what she was doing in there. I found a possum stuck halfway over an iron fence--the kind about 3 feet tall with spikes that extend above the top rail... The critter had made it half way through but was too big to fit the rest of the way. Judging by the pile of droppings beneath it and the dogs behavior, it had been there for several days. I got a long 2x4, shoved it under the possums hind quarters, lifted it, and eventually angled it over the fence and down onto the other side. It did not look in the least bit grateful....) Do remember that “playing possum” is named after the actual behavior of these critters... Bill From: missthin Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 10:43 PM To: Brian Siano Cc: UCNeighbors, univcity Hi Brian AFAIK from past experience, unless things have changed, Animal Control won't do anything. They'll tell you to trap the possum and then they'll come out. When they'd come is another question. But I'd try giving them a call, can't hurt! Good luck Wendy On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:05 PM, briansi...@gmail.com <briansi...@gmail.com> wrote: Got an injured possum in the back yard. Any suggestions for,animal control or rescue at this hour? Sent from my Virgin Mobile Android-Powered Device -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UCNeighbors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ucneighbors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UCNeighbors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ucneighbors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
