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Originally Posted by el_draco
Hi Alexander,
Its amazing and disappointing how many people advocate slaughtering our native wildlife for daring to approach a human provided feast. SHAME ON EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU... and a POX on your houses.
The onus is on the human to secure the vege garden and there are plenty of ways of doing that. Fencing with either a low voltage electric fence or curling the top of the fence over is the quick fix. I believe spraying a chilli solution around the plants also works.
As for the fruit trees, an adult possum can jump about 1m vertically. Therefore a 1m barrier around the base of each tree will stop any ground jumpers. Jumping from above, fence/roof just needs a bit thinking.
For the bogans amongst us, remember, possums evolved here, WE are the ferals.
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Now now. I haven't HAD to do this for over a decade, and don't plan to. last one I had to destroy after the neighbours dog decided to maul one.
We have a family of possums in the new house. When I am doing imaging, I find 2 of them come out for a look (always scares the bejesus out of me at first as they sound like humans - these are the noisiest buggers I have ever heard - I can hear them now!). Had one come right up to the mount - I was scared poopless the bugger was going to climb up!!! I shooed him off.