Decaying possum in my pool.

[rusnak]

We eat meat to-niiiiight!!!

[Tobra]

Can't help but think of Cletus when I hear about 'possum


Drain and sterilize is the way to go. Only thing worse than dead critter is necrotic bowel. If you have trouble with critters hanging around, you can pick up some fox urine at a hunting store and baptize the perimeter, so to speak. Pretty pricey pee though. Hope you got your truck okay.

[NY65912]

Tob,

Yea I sent 2 guys and they left Sacramento Thu PM and arrived in NY Sun early morning. He said the truck ran like a top. We did put on 2 new front tires in Nevada to be sure.

thanks a million for you help!

Thankfully the critters organs appeared to be intact. Yum

Mike

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by NY65912

I went into the kitchen and asked what was for dinner, thinking to myself, damn I can't get that smell out of me!!. My wife had prepared shrimp scampi over angel hair pasta, ummm. The shrimp had thesame sour fishy smell as the carcass and surrounding area. I made a grilled cheese and called it a night.

Imagine if you had stew for dinner.

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

Imagine if you had possum stew for dinner.

The next day's farts would have been fantastic.

[cstreit]

Originally Posted by cashflyer

That's what you call "fall-off-the-bone" tender....

Sick SOB.

I had a pssoum die under the deck. By the time I figured it out it took full hazmat. Triple contractor bagged the gooey remains and I could still smell it from 25 yards.

[jyl]

I am soooo happy that happened to you and not to me.

Possums are rather gross looking even when they are alive and healthy.

[aap1966]

We have possums in Australia, but they have a size advantage over the American possums, ours are the size of a decent sized domestic cat.
When I was 7 I, like a lot of kids, was into dinosaurs and thought I had a pretty good handle on fossilisation. Animal dies, soft parts turn into dirt, skeleton remains.
So, when I came across a freshly dead possum one day I thought (naturally enough) "Cool, possum skeleton time!" I took it home, stuck it in the garage cupboard for nature to take it's course, and...promptly forgot about it.

Until, my mother noted a steady drip of 'possum soup' spreading across the garage floor.


That took some explaining

[johnco]

down here it's turtles, crawfish, possums, frogs, mice, snakes and toads. when changing a liner of a pool that's been down for a couple years, the "water" gets pretty thick when down the the last foot or two. I can walk in the water and my socks don't get wet. I've had to shovel water into buckets because my pump won't pick it up. imagine the smell of a thick soup of all the above, add some turtle shiit, thousands of tadpoles, 6" of rotting leaves. mmmm!

[unclebilly]

Good thing it wasn't a horse...

[NY65912]

Drained the pool yesterday. I brought home a 80gpm dewatering pump with a 2˝" discharge that we use a work.

It was fun watching the water disappear. Soaking the DE filter in muratic acid. Tomorrow is bleach day!

I needed this like a hole in the head. Oh well, one must keep moving forward!!

[gsxrken]

Funny story. I have heaved when having to pick up after a dog so I know where you're coming from.

When our pool was first built, the plaster guys finish and water must immediately be put in it with trucks so the plaster doesn't dry too quickly and crack. The very next morning, I look out my bedroom window and I see a groundhog swimming around in it. He couldn't get out and he would swim to a side, thrash furiously with his front paws on the coping to climb out, give up and swim to the other side and try again. I wanted to shoot his ass right from the window. When I got down there he had miraculously not harmed the soft plaster. I ended up putting a plank into the water and went back in the house and watched him climb onto the plank and onto the patio. He sat there for a minute like he couldn't believe it, then ran off and we've never seen him again.

[wildthing]

First world problems...

[tabs]

Imagine soup for the villiage for a month