Another Cur pup and a possum in my jeep

runningboar

runningboar

Joined
May 27, 2006
Messages
2,325
Went yesterday to Tree Time Kennels and picked up 2 Cur pups out of burley, both are balls of fire and should make bang up hunting dogs. Here is a pick of little Jessie with my Rusty dog checking her out.

Picture757.jpg


Went hunting Saturday night for the last night of the season, Rusty caught a possum on the ground and by the time I could get to them the fight was over. Rusty had the possum by the throat and was shaking the snot out of it so I assumed it was dead and just put it in an old walmart bag and placed it behind the seat of my jeep. I didn't get home till 3 in the morning and decided to skin the possum in the morning when I got up. So Sunday morning I get up and go open the back of the jeep and there is mr possum curled up on my favorite fleece jacket with possum sh!t smeered from one end of the jeep to the other. My first reaction was a good belly laugh, at this point you might as well, and then grabbed the possum and put it out on the ground where it proceeded to waddle into the woods beside my house. I guess he got his revenge.:D

After scrubbing, shampooing and liberal fabreezing my jeep still smells like possum crap. My hunting buddy that I also work with has already spread the story all around work so I have been getting ribbed pretty hard. Oh well lesson learned, make sure a possum is not playing possum before leaving it in your jeep overnight.:rolleyes: Chris
 
I had a possum for a pet as a kid, they will tame right down and make decent pets but they smell to high heaven.:barf:
 
That is a hilariuos story RB. Possums will do that. Play Possum, I mean.

Three younguns started showing up behind my place this spring. They're pretty big now. I callem Roscoe, Roscoe, and Roscoe. They do a good job of cleaning up any food the cat has dropped.

Pretty pup! More pics! I'm on the list to rescue a Boxer right now. I've been dogless for over a year, and its killing me.
 
Fiddleback -- sorry to hear you've been dogless that long.

Don't believe I've been without a dog for more than a week, probably ever.

Couldn't last a year. Guess I'm a hopeless dog-lover.

Fortunately, my career has kept me near cities. If I ever had a farm or a ranch, there'd be real trouble!
 
Good story. I let what I thought was a dead possum out of a 220 conibear once, turned out he wasn't dead when I grabbed him by the tail. Scared the hell out of me and I ended up chucking him about thirty feet into the woods.
 
OldPhysics said:
Fiddleback -- sorry to hear you've been dogless that long.

Don't believe I've been without a dog for more than a week, probably ever.

Couldn't last a year. Guess I'm a hopeless dog-lover.

Fortunately, my career has kept me near cities. If I ever had a farm or a ranch, there'd be real trouble!
Click to expand...

I know. I feel so exposed without one. Two duaghters and a wife to protect and nothing to help me out. Jeez. But Lady was so great, I wasn't ready after she died to train a new one. So I waited, then Leah got pregnant. More waiting. So now I've had enough waiting. Soon to be boxered.:p
 
great looking pup there RB....:thumbup: I really like those cur dogs.....

HD-- is that little guy one of your many your pets....:o
 
Chris, Nice pup!!!!

My Possum story

In Junior high School we found a possum eartly in the morning on the walk to the bus stop.
We smuggled it onto the bus, holdign it's tail as a handle, took it way in back
by the emergency door. Disembarked at school, left Mr. Possum there , "snoozing".
Bus was en route to pick up the elementary school kids next.

Everyone who rode that bus route, was escorted out of classes and into the principals office about 0930 am. :eek:

Principal: "WHAT WAS A POSSUM DOING ON THE SCHOOL BUS??"
My wise assed friend answered: "Playing POSSUM!??!"

We all held our ground, claims that it must have snuck in at night and slept under a seat were bantered back n forth. It was apparant none of us had seen it? :confused:

For the next week, we were not allowed to even speak while riding the bus.
The bus driver was under orders that we enter the bus, one at a time, no one was to enter the doorway until the person before them had gotten to their seat. Faces forward, not even whispers were allowed.
You would have thought we were riding a bus to Auschwitz.

We passed paper notes so the school-bus driver Nazi would be unaware of our clandestine conversations. The cross aisle passes were the most risky. ;)

Rumor has it, that the elementary school kids discovered the possum and totally freaked out. Pandemonium and chaos ensued, as they squealed like little girls and clambered to get off the bus shoving kids forward toward the driver as if the bus had caught on fire. :eek:
 
Good looking dogs runnningboar.:cool:
There's a product called odor-mute that you may want to check out.;)

Thanks for sharing
Helle
 
These stories are great, I dont have much experience with possums other than staying away from em. I have one that lives in my Holly Tree in my backyard but my dogs leave it alone and it leaves them alone. Great looking pups Runningboar:thumbup:
 
I'm sure I'm in the minority here but i love Opossums. I live in a big city 10 miles from any woods and there are Opossums everywhere in our area....they adapt very well and I have some living on my property...My dog, a Malamute, brought a baby one in the house one time and dropped it at my feet while we were all eating dinner. The wife screamed that our dog killed it...It really...REALLY...looked dead, mouth open, tongue out and every thing..I picked it up with a shovel and put it opn the front porch and told my wife to look out the window at it...after about 2 minutes it sat up...looked around and ambled off.....very cool survivor instinct.
 
here is a good possum story....WHile walking to work one morning at around 7:30 in a relatively urban part of an NYC suburb I hear alot of commotion people yelling...yad, yada....So I turn the corner and see five NYC police officers circled around a stairwell 1 guy has his 9mm out and aimed another has his knight stick and is brandishing it over his head another has a can of mace out and is spraying it in a sweeping motion towards the staiwell...(wow I think there must be a psychopath down there) so I take a wide berth but angle my self so I can see what is going on) so in the staiwell laying on its side is a possum so I ask the officer closest to me hey whats up...to which he replies this giant rat is just laying there and won't leave) so I said I think it's a possum and he's playing dead...I'm pretty sure if you guys go get a cup of coffee and come back it'll be gone...to which he replied "sir we got it under control" so feeling bad fo the possum I went on my way...Never did find out what happened....As funny as it was to see these guys worked up over a possum I'm sure it was just because they had never experienced one because there has been many times that the NYPD has saved my bacon!!!!! So this is not meant to ruffle any feathers I have respect for the law enforcement community and work in cohesion with them frequently....But it sure was funny to see, and I did feel bad for the poor maced possum
 
Are those Rhodesian Ridgebacks? (the dogs, not the opposums :D )

The adult certainly looks it, and the pup does too.

I've got an RR, and I'm a sucker for them. :thumbup:
 
Gotta love "city-slicker" stories... one summer I worked for the state on a crew up north. One of the camp cooks was a fella from the inner city of Milwaukee who'd probably never seen an animal not on a leash or in a zoo. Getting up before the rest of us one fine morning, he woke up the whole barracks running back in and screaming "WOLF! WOLF! WOLF!!" at the top of his lungs. Except he said it like "WOOF WOOF", lol. I mean he seriously thought his number was up.
Anyway, some of us good ol' northern boys peeked outside... and saw a gorgeous young Husky-mix dog happily wandering around :D Turns out he belonged to a nearby camper and had just wandered into our camp.

Naturally we gave the cook a ton of grief, mainly, "didn't the collar and tags tip you off?!?" ;)
 
RUNNINGBOAR........you have a WII, you dirty SOB! hahahaha, new dogs and a WII boy your just Living it up:D
 
Shann said:
Are those Rhodesian Ridgebacks? (the dogs, not the opposums :D )

The adult certainly looks it, and the pup does too.

I've got an RR, and I'm a sucker for them. :thumbup:
Click to expand...

I am found of rhodesians myself, but those are Mountain Curs, pound for pound the hardest hunting dog on 4 legs. Do a google on Mountain Curs and you will get lots of reading.:thumbup: Chris
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top