Just that. Caught a nice Tom bobcat a couple days ago. Made the reset and moved over 5 feet and made a second set. Had a possum in each trap this morning. What has been your experience? Does catching the possums mess the site up?

I ended up pulling both traps and moved down the fenceline 10-15 feet and made a whole new set.

Catching possums apparently doesn't upset my southeast PA fox. I reset and the fox walk right in.

If it did don't think the cats could live around them

I think disgust might be a purely human emotion

something disgusts us so we won't touch it

like you smell green belly coyote enough times you would never think to eat one ,but they can not too old, be even good if shot and cleaned right away and prepared properly.

I used to know a guy , he has passed now , that called coyotes and ate a few of the young females every year , he roasted them and though they were quite good.

lots of people eat coon , some even possum

I don't think predators further up the food chain avoid lesser animals on a disgust basis.

Possums don't seem to mind walking thru a coon trap.

I caught a possum once that all that was in the frap was a foot.
It was chewed off by something, and whatever it was ate tail and all.
I know because whatever ate it threw it up right beside the set!
First thought a Coyote did it.
Few days later heard that a cougar escaped from a compound about 3 miles away.
Think maybe it was so hungry it ate it and then thought about it? lol

No need to pull it just reset and go

Do you reset after catching a possum......

Yes

Yes I reset it, just added a little more red fox urine .

I remember starting out Fox trapping in the early '70's, word was possum ruined a set. Well, when you're on foot with a couple traps as a kid, I reset them and caught fox in the reset.

do you ever wonder if the "word" was a con to get you off a good trail and let them set that spot.
I sometimes wonder if the "words" that don't seem to make a lot of sense weren't making perfect sense to someone elses agenda

or I am just paranoid

I used to pull and re boil

I've tried resetting after a possum enough to know that it's a waste of my time
Better to set a fresh trap nearby
I still pull them and disassemble and clean before I reboil
It's what works for me

Yep, lol.

Alot of the word in the fur buyers shed wasn't quite how we do things today and if they knew?

Rubber gloves, shoes just for trapping, can't bare hand anything. You'd have thought we were doing open heart surgery, lol.

Yep, lol.

Alot of the word in the fur buyers shed wasn't quite how we do things today and if they knew?

Rubber gloves, shoes just for trapping, can't bare hand anything. You'd have thought we were doing open heart surgery, lol.




You have a point, but I also learned a lot from those old fur buyers,
Miss those days, and the smell of a fur house.

So much wonderful information here.
Maybe someday I will join the ranks of a successful O'Possum trapper
Until then Good Luck my Friends

When fur was valuable, it was heavily trapped. Animals that lived to pass their genes, in heavily trapped areas, were wary. Now most fur has very little value. Trappers are few and far between. There's little biological advantage for being wary of traps and people now. For fur bearers food is more common around people, with little danger. Animals that aren't genetically scared or exposure scared of people, generally do better than those that are.

Keith

Same here on the peninsula.

I'm so good I harvest more possum than coon. Not to brag or anything.