Re: [Felvtalk] Possums eat ticks (was: different types of Felv

2016-06-08 Thread dlgegg
I need to read this! We have lots of possums around her (live in the middle of the woods). I have noticed that Harley never has any fleas or ticks on him and he goes out all the time, wanders around the yard and then comes up on the deck, inds a comfortable spot and sleeps. kat

Re: [Felvtalk] Possums eat ticks (was: different types of Felv

2016-06-08 Thread kat
allow it ... Extrapolating from their findings, Ostfeld said, the team estimated that in one season, an opossum can kill about 5,000 ticks ... Some ticks end up getting their blood meal from the possum. But more than 90 percent of them ended up being groomed away and swallowed."   I haven't found anything abo

Re: possums

2006-07-18 Thread Marylyn
- Original Message - From: catatonya To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 9:42 AM Subject: possums I enjoyed the story too and hate to be a downer. but a friend of mine did the same thing and one time the possum got

Re: possums

2006-07-18 Thread catatonya
, 2006 9:42 AM Subject: possumsI enjoyed the story too and hate to be a downer. but a friend of mine did the same thing and one time the possum got into a tizzy and bit one of her cats and scared her. She called animal control who came and by then they couldn't findthe possum to check

possums

2006-07-17 Thread catatonya
Mama Kitty stays on the porch a lot - she doesn't mind in the slightest if they help themselves to her food. One night last winter, I opened the door an startled one of the younger possums. He jumped right in the cat bed with Mama Kitty LOL Neither one of them seemed to mind the other.I know a