Grab the O'possum by the tail...

-Or- How my dog keeps dragging crap to my house...

from JoeUser Forums
First a list of what my dog has "retrieved" during her nightly patrols:
Rotting cat carcass
Rotting deer carcasses and misc. parts
Dead racoon, freshly killed
A decayed, severed racoon head
Misc bones
Dead chickens
Egg shells
A shoe
A small kiddy swimming pool
Another dog's toy
A tennis ball
A pillow

And yesterday a living, breathing, Virginia O'possum covered in spit...

Ugh...at 10:30 PM...the last thing you need is to move a freakin' O'possum before it wakes up from it's black out....I just can't believe my dog brings this crap back. Never money or expensive objects....just crap...

Well, I moved the thing...it was a pretty big one and luckily it wandered off after a half hour or so....poor thing was probably traumatized for life....would you like to be pounced upon by a boxer, covered in spit, dragged to someone's house, picked up by the tail and tossed into a field?

Well, so ends my latest wildlife adventure, and I didn't even have to leave home....now, to teach my dog to take money and jewelry.

~Zoo
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Why your dog was just bringing you supper! But I hear possum's kinda greasy...
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
They say a dog always brings gifts to it's master....enjoy!

P.S. What kind of dog do you have?
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Why your dog was just bringing you supper!


Heh...no way am I eating one of those...

P.S. What kind of dog do you have?


A boxer...which explains how she killed a racoon without a scratch on her...

~Zoo
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

Ugh...at 10:30 PM...the last thing you need is to move a freakin' O'possum before it wakes up from it's black out....I just can't believe my dog brings this crap back. Never money or expensive objects....just crap...

Possums do not play dead, they literally faint from fright!  We use to have one that would come up and eat our cat's food.  I trapped it on the porch one night and tried to frighten it into a coma, but I guess I am not scary enough.  But after that night, it never came back either!

You have a very good dog!  bury the carcasses, and be glad that he is so attentive and loving of you that he is trying to feed you as well!

Good dog!  Very good dog!

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Good dog! Very good dog!


Perhaps her intentions are good....but have you ever walked outside to see a severed head looking at you? A little too much like the Godfather if you ask me...

~Zoo
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

Perhaps her intentions are good....but have you ever walked outside to see a severed head looking at you? A little too much like the Godfather if you ask me...

We got cats.  About a week ago, I came home to find the hind quarter of a squirrell sitting on the front porch!

And of course we get lots of voles and birds as well.

Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
We got cats. About a week ago, I came home to find the hind quarter of a squirrell sitting on the front porch!


Had a monster of a cat growing up. He brought home mallard ducks. Ick. So all that time he was just lovin' on me, huh?
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

Had a monster of a cat growing up. He brought home mallard ducks. Ick. So all that time he was just lovin' on me, huh?

Makes you feel bad that you did not accept his gifts of love, eh?