'Possums

[megabucks1]

I have never had any experience with possums where I live so I am just asking this:- would a possum kill and eat a rabbit. I found the remains of a rabbit on my back porch and then found a fresh road kill possum and it is the first time that I have seen one in my area. Also would a racoon be able to kill a rabbit?
Thanks for the assistance.

[G Skinner]

Do you or your neighbors own a cat ?
Glen

[megabucks1]

Glen:- Yes we have a couple of neighbours with cats which seem to be trying to eat all the birds in the area.

[skypilot]

Both possums and racoons could kill a rabbit and especially chickens. Mostly the possum and especially on penned chickens or rabbits.

We have issues with possums frequently in the South as they are notorius chicken killers.

[finsfurfeathers]

Did the rabbit have its head chewed off?

[G Skinner]

Glen:- Yes we have a couple of neighbours with cats which seem to be trying to eat all the birds in the area.

More likely a cat then ...with it being found on the porch .
Glen

[jaycee]

Possums are killers, my neighbor had 17 hens , 4 turkeys and 11 rabbits all killed , the rabbits were in a large open stall in the barn, the culprit a big boar possum.
The killings stopped when he borrowed my large live trap and caught the possum which I then dispatched .

[myot]

I shot a possum with my bow 3 years ago while hunting deer upon the farmers request and spined him. You would have thought I shot a 150lbs wild pig the way it screamed even the farmer heard it 300yards away

Dan

[greatwhite]

I thought Possums were from the South. I wonder if any have made it to Ottawa.

[MikePal]

I thought Possums were from the South. I wonder if any have made it to Ottawa.

GW..biologically they shouldn't even be surviving in Southern Ont...but they have...definitely warm weather beasts so unless climate change warms things up here in the Ottawa Valley, it's not likely we will see them any time soon.