Deterring possums,,,,, what do you do?

[bright.ton42]

One night they chomped through about 15 baskets of impatiens.

Then onto the yummy roses, geraniums.

Now I've decided to set up an area of succulents in pots which I love and have read so many remedies for

spraying tham (the plants )  on the internet and don't know where to start.

I have bought two little flashing led lights in vivid green which I'm hoping will look like

evil eyes, lol. 

Anybody had success with deterring them?   I won't trap them and relocate as I know they die in a new area and I'm am actually fond of the \little critters. .

[poddster]

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@bright.ton42 wrote:

Don't know about the 1.2mm poddy if it's what I think it is,  I'm sure you jest......  right??????

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It is a 100% deterrent, so if you love your roses ............

Or, you could try a terrier they are effective as well 🙂

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

No possum problem here but the geckos are running amok.
I have heard that a solution of water and moth balls sprayed on the walls deters them.
Reckon that smell would deter most critters.

And then we have dettol for cane toads.

[bright.ton42]

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@poddster wrote:

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@bright.ton42 wrote:

Don't know about the 1.2mm poddy if it's what I think it is,  I'm sure you jest......  right??????

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It is a 100% deterrent, so if you love your roses ............

Or, you could try a terrier they are effective as well 🙂

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ROTFL I've got a little terrier but no way would she be out at night not when she's got the doona to snuggle into.

[poddster]

Here is a word of very good advice, NEVER get underneath an o'possum. With the help of gravity they have deadly aim.

That is experience speaking 😞

[lind9650]

A possum killed one of my cats. She was sleeping on the verandha on a hot summers night when I heard a great commotion, ran outside to see the possum killing my lovely little cat. There was nothing I could do to save her. That nasty possum jumped on to the blustrade and kept hissing and barking at me. Possums look cute, but can be very dangerous and nasty.

Talking about moth balls. Our house was the only one in the street that was made of weatherboard and built on a slope, so we had some empty space underneath. Just the ideal place for cats to gather at mating times and keep the whole family awake all night with their catervaulting crys.

I bought a box of mothballs and threw them under the house. No more cat concerts after that.

Wonder if it would work on possums?

Erica

[bright.ton42]

I'[m sorry you lost your little cat that way, how horrible, but I have also seen possums mutilated by cats too. One was badly wounded and I took her to the vet to euthanise, but they found a baby in her pouch and said the baby would be saved.   I don't consider them nasty,  here where I live in a busy suburb with few gardens they are starving.    They fight to survive.  I feel mean wanting to deter them but they can eat the rest of my garden, just not the succulent patch. 

I will try your suggestion of the garlic spray, and I've heard that camphor can also be a good repellent. 

[purple_haize]

We tried the garlic spray, worked for awhile, then it didnt, as I said we have tried everything to stop them nothing worked...........OH put wire up and around some of the roses, that worked to a degree, also covering them with an old sheet, but they managed to get under that............so nothing really works, long term.

Dont buy one of those ommitor things that are suppose to give the possums a small shock, cost the earth and did nothing at all, a total waste of money..........

[serendipityricho]

4tttts-must take ages to harvest those mothballs.

What do you do with the wings etc when you finish?.........................Richo

[***super_nova***]

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@poddster wrote:

The administering of 2.2 grams of Pb 12 mm directly below the auditory canal at a supersonic velocity per o'possum is a 100% deterrent.

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For that particular possum, but before you know another one will take over the territory.

[azureline**]

I have 2 of those movement activated owls. They work.