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[MOPanfisher]

There is nothing that can't be made tasty.  Many of them I have no desire to make tasty unless I was in dire need.

[Terrierman]

26 minutes ago, MOPanfisher said:

There is nothing that can't be made tasty.  Many of them I have no desire to make tasty unless I was in dire need.

I'm going to have to be really really hungry before I ever learn what a possum or an armadillo taste like.

[Johnsfolly]

53 minutes ago, Terrierman said:

I'm going to have to be really really hungry before I ever learn what a possum or an armadillo taste like.

Rick down in FL we had opossum and possum on the half shell 🤣

[Terrierman]

6 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

Rick down in FL we had opossum and possum on the half shell 🤣

I hope you enjoyed it.🤢

[bfishn]

I'll definitely pass on the possum. Had one for a pet when I was a kid. Coolest pet ever. If you wanted to pick him up, you just put your finger under his tail... ftwap... that tail wrapped around your finger and you'd pick him up. Set him on your shoulder and he'd go sniffin' around, eventually ending with his snoot in your ear... then he'd slip you the tongue... Dang it, now I gotta tell the whole story.

Yada yada, north Missouri farm in the 60's. Lots of critters. Home rule was no critters in the house. Critters had the barn, humans got the house. No exceptions. Then Dad brought home a possum that wasn't much bigger than a mouse. He'd mowed hay thru a nest, and that was the only one left alive. We dropper-fed it for a month, then he ate Mom's  oatmeal out of a bowl. At about half grown, he preferred grapes. He'd pick them up from the bowl with both front paws, then wash them in his water bowl before he'd eat them. Poss was the only critter allowed in the house, ever, but he was like family. After about a year, we let him go, and he made a nest under the porch. Shortly after, he had a girlfriend that he brought for us to meet. Then they were gone.

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, Terrierman said:

I hope you enjoyed it.🤢

Didn't  eat them. That is what we called opossum and armadillos. Never saw a live dillo in FL but always dead on the roadside.

[snagged in outlet 3]

10 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

Didn't  eat them. That is what we called opossum and armadillos. Never saw a live dillo in FL but always dead on the roadside.

I just saw my first live ones at table rock this past summer.  3 of em tearing up a flower bed at Big Cedar.  

[Terrierman]

11 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

Didn't  eat them. That is what we called opossum and armadillos. Never saw a live dillo in FL but always dead on the roadside.

They jump when startled.  Gets a lot of them killed when they would otherwise be fine when a car or truck drives over them.

[Johnsfolly]

59 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I just saw my first live ones at table rock this past summer.  3 of em tearing up a flower bed at Big Cedar.  

I saw my first live one while in Baton Rouge back in the 90s. I chased it and grabbed it. It felt like a warm nerf football. Immediately as I grabbed it, this went through my mind. Two things that I know about armadillos  - they can carry leprosy and they escape by jumping straight up. With my face directly above the animal I let it go almost immediately after catching it 😅

I used to see them along the Current River mostly upstream of Bapist camp. On one rip I heard one in the brush and it was coming towards me. I was right next to the bank. I just stood there watching it. It kept getting closer. At one point I tapped it on the head with my 9'ft flyrod (yes @BilletHead and @FishnDave I have fly fished). That spurred it to get even closer. Soon it was digging under one of my wader boots. Then it got on top of my foot. I gently began to lift up my foot. It stayed on my boot until my foot was about 6 to 8 inches off the ground then it jumped off into the river. In the river it jumped swam back to the bank. Those animals are pretty much blind and they are not gifted in terms of intelligence.

[MOPanfisher]

First one I grabbed I was surprised at how heavy it was, dropped it and away he ran.  I killed a young one last weekend, it was warm and he was out nosing around,bad choice for him.  Armadillos get no quarter from me.