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After the spiders I thought it would be good to put up a piccy of a cute animal.....

I prefer the spiders!

what is that! a wombat?

Northern Lass wrote:I prefer the spiders!

what is that! a wombat?

No, it's a woman with a cuddly toy.

Its a Golden Possum. They only live in Tasmania where there are no predators to notice their not very good camouflage caused by a genetic defect, a bit like being albino.

In Victoria they are a grey colour and I have about ten living around my property along with their bigger cousins, the Brushtail.



They will live in your walls and ceilings if you do not block every possilbe point of entry. You are not allowed to remove them from your property so I ended up buying a heap of Possum Houses which they seem to be comfortable with.

So is it Possoms that are protected in Australia but not in NZ

He's lovely

They are not a native animal in NZ so they hunt them by the thousands but still can't eliminate them.

In Victoria we can take a captured Possum to be euthanized at the vets but there is no way anybody looking into those eyes could do that.

My nan would have been with NL, she'd have run a mile

They are cute though!

We've one who walks across our verandah each night checking for moths on the windows. He doesn't seem to take any notice of us at all. They do have the sweetest little faces, but make a heck of a racket running all over the roof in their footy boots.

Here's the other sort of possum that uses our power lines as a possum highway:
http://davidcook.com.au/images/images_m ... possum.jpg

It's a little ringtail possum - even cuter than the brushy tails.

What do they taste like?

SRD wrote:What do they taste like?

Thinking of a sauce accompaniment SRD

They do not taste too bad if you cook them the aboriginee way under the hot coals.

Better than wombat anyway....

Antie Em wrote:

SRD wrote:What do they taste like?

Thinking of a sauce accompaniment SRD

Partly, but one of the best ways to deal with unwanted animals is to eat them. If they become a staple part of the diet they reduce in numbers pretty rapidly. If the Aussies were to use modern food processing methods to transform rabbits/wombats/whatever into protein products (pies, sausages, animal feed etc.) they would be able to reduce greatly their vermin problems. There are two emotional problems with that solution, 1 Aussies don't think meat is meat unless it's in a slab, 2 They're far too cute, all those tree huggers would have a field day if they start feeding the animals into a mincer.

SRD wrote:

Antie Em wrote:

SRD wrote:What do they taste like?

Thinking of a sauce accompaniment SRD

Partly, but one of the best ways to deal with unwanted animals is to eat them. If they become a staple part of the diet they reduce in numbers pretty rapidly. If the Aussies were to use modern food processing methods to transform rabbits/wombats/whatever into protein products (pies, sausages, animal feed etc.) they would be able to reduce greatly their vermin problems. There are two emotional problems with that solution, 1 Aussies don't think meat is meat unless it's in a slab, 2 They're far too cute, all those tree huggers would have a field day if they start feeding the animals into a mincer.

Do we do that here with our vermin problem? I can think of a couple of rats I'd like to feed into a mincer