I dont release them cause they eat all the turkey and pheasent eggs but what do you guys do with possums?

They'll just find your set again if f you release em

Lol...

Depends on where I am trapping. We don't get a lot of 'em around here, so some places they get released, if near horses they get dispatched. My sisters place they always get released she likes em around and I only get one every couple years there anyhow.

Kill em and throw in the weeds.

Dispatch.

I release all of the possums I catch. I mean, the trap needs reset right? None of them get a second chance to plug up a trap.

Tan them . Make great gloves.

I release them. Rare to catch one again. Something needs to eat dead stuff after the buzzards leave for the winter. Horse pasture they get killed.

Not only do I dispatch those caught I go out of my way to take all I see out when around my farm. Get a few miles away they may get a pass.

k.snow has the only correct proper answer to this

Have not caught any yet but they are now up this far north.

I take the ones I catch and give them swimming lessons.

WS

I've released a few small ones when out with my daughters because they think they're cute. Otherwise, I keep the nice silver/gray ones, and release the ugly black/dark ones.

Same as coons kill them all

I try on the farm seem to succeed and a few months later more tracks appear.

Never released one and never will.

the farm has a no mercy policy on possums .
Grandpa lost his favorite horse years ago to the disease they carry.

if the hide will pay enough to make it worth your while , if not right along with any other bad fur and carcasses in the compost pile.

Being aware that some states have rules called I believe "wanton waste???" and littering dumping laws..

Years ago I returned to my truck to find Warden standing by it. He said oh it's you? So Of course I knew him and he knew me so didn't have to ask to check my license.. he knew I had one.
When he ask had I caught anything in the traps I was checking. I had no reason to not say flat out what that was. Said I had hen turkey in a 1 1/2 DJ trail set, which I released unharmed took two steps and flew away. I then said I had caught a small opossum that I whacked and threw in brush pile. He looked at me and said.. "You mean you Release it in bush pile."
I said oh yeah I released it into a brush pile..
So I have since that day released in some fashion every opossum I have caught. That is what I know about that.
I've heard they eat millions of ticks so properly wording of releasing is important.


Mac

"Never Forget Which Way Is Up!"

Buzzards gotta eat too.