If anyone has been following our posts, they will know that we were absolutely devastated over Christmas because we lost our whole guinea pig community to pesky possums.  They were practically wiped out over-night; not a single piggie was left; some were eaten up and the rest were just killed.  Anyway, the story continued with Gnome trying the bait the possum(s) with a bucket of food at night which involved sitting in the dark with a pellet gun.  Well, that didn’t work and all we caught was our cat rummaging about in the bucket looking for a midnight snack.

Oh, but look what we have here: Gotcha!!  We’ve got the little blighter…had to trap it in the end.

And you won’t believe it!!  We found a shrubby, dense area scattered with egg shells (yes, we have lost a whole tonne of goose and duck eggs to them!) so we decided to put a trap out every night and we have caught a possum every time.  We have three in total and can’t catch any-more because we have run out of traps.  Now, I am feeding the three possums with rice for a week, to clean them out in preparation for possum curry at the weekend.  I have mixed feelings about having to dispatch these little blighters (they kinda look cute in a possum kinda way) but I realise that they have  devastated our farm and we do need to get rid of them. 🙂