Hey Grandpa', What's For Dinner!

Baked Possum

1 lg Possum, skinned, dressed, and washed
1 qt Beer
4 tb Tabasco sauce
1 1/2 tb Salt
2 Onions, chopped
1 Cloves Garlic, minced
2 tb Worcestershire sauce
4 Sweet potatoes
2 tb Celery, chopped
1 oz Whiskey

Mix the beer, whiskey, salt, Tabasco sauce, and Worcestershire sauce together. Place possum in a large roasting pan. Sprinkle the celery, onions, and the garlic all over the possum. Pour the liquid mixture over the possum as well. Cover and refrigerate over night. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place the sweet potatos around the possum and recover the pan. Cook for 1 1/2 hours. Baste once or twice with the marinade from the pan as the possum cooks.

We have been having a problem with a silver fox killing my good neighbor June's Guinea Hens. She had seen the fox several times at night when she would pull up in her car. It would quickly dash away into the woods. As fall set in and the cooler October nights chilled the property, I accidentally stumbled onto the fox when I was walking some scrap wire out to the trailer to add it to the dump load. We found ourselves staring each at each other about 15 feet apart. I pretended not to see him and strolled into the garage to fetch my "varmint weapon". When I returned he was gone.

I ran into the fox on three consecutive nights right in my back yard. It is a beautiful animal and I hate to shoot it but it knows where a large food source is (our 11 guinea hens) and will continue to return until that food source is exhausted.
So I set out a trap!
I wanted to catch this fox before he started munching down on our guineas. The best thing about a large animal trap is that it is like using the rest rooms at the free clinic, you never know what your going to catch!

 

My first catch was Miss Junes cat, Blacky! Boy did I feel bad. Luckily she could have only been in the trap for between 10 minutes and four hours. At least in the trap she was completely safe from any other predator.

My second catch was a huge possum! This thing must have weighed 12 pounds or more. And "Boy Howdy" was it pissed! And I have NEVER smelt something so bad as angy hissing possum. Realy wet dog poop would be close. I had to air-out the back of my truck for the rest of the day to get the stink out.

I let it go in the woods behind the WaWa station on Rt. 10. That was about 5 miles from the house. My luck, it beat me back to the house. I am using hamburger in the trap and that seems to be working.