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pbmn
, 03-11-2008 at 08:32 PM (2226 Views)
Alright, just some background info. before I jump in:

-I am 16 and I live on what many call a "farm" (I have given up correcting them). We do have a barn, three horses, three goats, about five outdoor cats (missing one right now, so we really have 6), and 2 dogs. Okay, here we go.


This past week I have been doing the chores, and as a form of protection for me I have been bringing a paintball gun with me. The reason, you ask? Well, we apparently have a... POSSUM



So while I am going out there (I had not seen it yet), I hear my younger dog, a cocker spaniel, yelp and saw him run out from underneath the "rotting" '66 Mustang that my dad keeps in the barn. I bent over to look inside, and I saw/heard the hissing of a possum. I freaked out and lept away, my gun firing as I hopped around. Stupid safety switch! I decided I had better take care of it, and bent over to shoot it. I aimed my gun at it and shot it about twenty times, five of them hitting it in the face. It ran out from my barn, its rat-like tail swinging as it left. Man, how I hate those things!


If you think I am cruel, my dad recently killed another one by wacking it with a spade about ten times, so trust me, I helped it.
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  1. motherhubbard's Avatar
    I hate the giant rat-like opossum, too. But I carry a real gun and it kills them a little more quickly than a paint gun- less cruel. I had one in the chicken house a couple of weeks ago. he was curled up in a nesting box while his dinner digested.
  2. Sweets America's Avatar
    I think possums and all those kinds of animals are cute. And yes, I think what you did was cruel.
  3. pbmn's Avatar
    I didn't kill it... As much as I don't like the animals, I still have a respect for nature, and just wanted it to stay away.

    You wouldn't think that they were cute if one was around in broad daylight (possible sign of rabbies) and it was hissing at you.
  4. LadyW's Avatar
    Hahaha, I'm terribley sorry but I find that story absolutely hilarious. I can't stop chuckling; that's so funny.
  5. Sweets America's Avatar
    Don't worry, I know what you mean and that it must feel strange to find yourself face to face with a possum in your house. But I still think that's cruel. I am cruel too when I kill spiders because I'm scared of them, so you're not the only one.
  6. kiz_paws's Avatar
    I won't comment on the possum thing (I have nothing constructive to say, and I prefer humane treatment to animals -- but I know not much about this animals that I believe is a nuisance? Anyhow, guess enough said). BUT: did you say '66 MUSTANG? Rotting?!?!? OMG, this is a car above all cars, my friend! Slick 'er all up and you will have all the chicks lining up!
  7. pbmn's Avatar
    You're telling me, there are so many times when I wish that my dad would let me pay to fix it up, but I have to save it for college. My dad can't fix it up at the moment because I have two sisters who go to Northwestern.
  8. kiz_paws's Avatar
    Well, if ya can't fix it up now, don't let it get out of your sights -- that car is vintage I say! My aunt had a '64 powder blue one with black leather bucket seats, and a rag-top to boot! If my knowledge serves me right, that was the year it all began! Why oh why did my uncle sell that car!! My brother bought a '67 red 'Stang (leather bucket seats, etc., natch), but it rusted out so bad and chugged away from lack of a mechanical man behind the wheel that my dad made him sell it..... boo hoo! I used to get to drive it when my bro had been into the juice (ahem, nudge nudge). Me? I cannot afford such luxuries, and my hubby just lets me dream. Oh well. One of these days, right?
  9. Anza's Avatar
    ooh, yay. a possum. Was he big. I lived on what some could call a farm, and we had them all the time. They'ye really ugly and smell bad. One time I saw one under my porch, and my cousin who's 19 started freaking out. I poked at it with a stick and said "I am man! rawr, fear me." and then it went away.