Possums

Hello, I got a told us of Lois. Hey, Lois, what's going on? My, the much a doll I just gonna ask you a question. If you know the answer and I'll explain you why I wanna know.

But if you got any idea in the world, how long a possum lives? If you know, if a dog don't get him or something, you know, he lives out his natural life. Do you have any idea in the world how long a possum will live? Oh, man, Lois, you know, you're asking a question.

I wouldn't really have any way of knowing how I can tell you this. I've seen possums that were really, really old because you can tell by looking at their face like a dog, you know, a dog will be grey all around his face when he gets old. But I have no idea how long that is, Lois. I don't think I could even guess.

You know, no boy, I've asked everybody around here and nobody knows. Now, my girl, Emily, looked it up on the internet, you know what I'm saying? That's what I was thinking about. What's she find out?

Well, she said that average lifetime of a possum was about seven years, which she said five to seven years. Now, that don't surprise me really. That don't surprise me really. Well, you know, don't tell you what the reason I'm asking you, that's what I wanted to know.

Why were you asking? Well, you know, old Flossie Butts lives across the road over here. When she was having something, you know, some animal or critter was raiding her in her house, you know, and she wasn't getting away. You know, she runs this boarding house over here and she got a whole flock of chicken, but she wasn't getting away.

You know, something was making off with them. And so she told me, asked me, would I go over there and look, of course, you can see possum tracks, you know, all over the ground, you know, they'll do that. Oh, they were saving their eggs. So I put some traps out over there and though there was a whole family of impossums.

And we trapped them, you know, there's three of them. And of course, immediate, I called old Booker Cohen, you know, because he knows how to cook the impossums. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

And so my mother used to know how to cook them. Did she? Long time ago, I ate them. I'd be honest with you, boy, I didn't care for them, but I was hungry and we were poor.

So I ate them. Pot cooking was sweet potatoes. Yeah, well, you know, if you got to know how to cook them, well, I know, I know your mama was a good cook, you know, but old Booker Cohen, he'd been cooking them things for a long time. And what he does is that he puts a digs him a pixx, you know, and barbecues and things.

And and you got to cook a real slow because they tough and straighten. They're getting cooked real good. They are stringy. My mother never did barbecue a possum.

She barbecued a coon, you know, yeah, but she never did barbecue a possum. But we'd eat whatever we could we could get, you know, so go ahead. I might just hear about this. Well, I met barbecue coon before, you know, that's good too.

But I like it. Yeah. Anyway, old Booker Cohen got down here and we had us a barbecue. Open up some beer and you know, I had a regular regular feast, but that's not what I'm getting off the subject.

What happened was that I don't know, I know, you know about possums. And one of these possums was a, was a, a, a girl possum. I mean, you know, she was, I don't know what you call a female possum, but she was one anyway. And she was, of course, she was dead, but she had this little baby possum and her pouch.

Yeah. And my girl, we only come along and that possum crawled out. And so anyway, she made a pet out of him and he was a little old bitty thing and I know he'd die, you know, so I wouldn't worry about it. But she, she used to feed that, that brain possum on a eyedropper and she'd get him up in her house.

He's a little bit scuttler. Yeah. Like I say, I figured he would die, but you know, she raised that possum up and got him, you know, he grow now he's a he runs around the house, follows her around just like a dog. Lord and mercy.

Oh, he does. And she, she used to fit and I had to stop to this, but she used to fix him a plate at the table and she'd get him a tear, you know, put some cushions or pillars up there on the chair, you know, to raise him up to the table. Well, bless her. Hard, Lois.

Oh, she was, it was a man. It was a sight to know what she'd do. And so that possum, you know, one time he got up on the table and you know, you'd, I had to stop there. I probably would have had that possum for dinner.

Well, you couldn't do that. She also had to. She had to have to fail. That was her baby, you know, she was dead done.

But she, I told you she'd go have to take that thing out in the yard and beat him out there. I said, we can't have no possum up on the table. And so she didn't like it, but she done it. She, she took him outside.

But anyway, that possum follows her around whenever she goes, whenever she comes home from school, you know, he just got a dog, you know, he'll come up for she is and she'll commence to, you know, reading her book or doing her homework. That possum, you know, if I wrap aside her and it looks like he's doing his homework, you know, she raised it from a new baby. Yeah, she sure did. But, you know, dog boy, when she goes to school, that possum follows me around.

He won't eat. He don't like me much. But it I don't like him. What he'll do is he'll grab a hold of my britches later and he'll get a hold of my britches leg and I had to drag him around.

You know, wherever I'm going. Yeah, I was to eat. Well, he didn't want human contact when she's gone. I guess so, you know, but no.

Flossy butts, you know, she comes over here and as he likes him, you know, and he just he takes to her all this. He just like, you know, Emily, well, he takes so Flossy butts and he'll follow her around when she comes over here. She was the one that the other boss was getting there in her handout, didn't she? Yeah, they was.

And they were stealing her eggs, you know, but yeah, I told her. I said, you know, Flossy butts, you better be careful. That old possum would be after your eggs, too. She said, oh, no, he won't do that.

He's a he's a pet, you know, he he belongs to Emily. Well, you know, she'll find out different. I'll tell you that. Yeah, they don't make that, you know, they don't, they don't, uh, they don't single anybody out.

They'll get the eggs. Of course, you know, they're a pet. Of course, you know, Emily feeds him eggs. So I guess he gets all the eggs he wants.

I don't know. She feeds them. That's what she raised them over eggs. And, uh, if I, you know, that's one thing that I can cook is eggs.

And I don't, we'd love to have them for breakfast. And she'd get that possum to play the eggs and he'd eat right on, you know. Well, y'all have chickens, don't you? Oh, yeah, we got chickens.

Well, you get a lot of eggs, then. Yeah. And as far as I know, no, boy, he don't bother our eggs. Uh, like I say, you know, Emily gives them all he wants.

So, well, yeah, he don't have to scavenge around for them. No, he don't. He sort of, did she name him? Oh, yeah, she names him.

Uh, so all of them. Let me see. What's the name of that? They are, oh, I can't.

First, uh, she named him, uh, push, push. That's what she named him. Push the boss. And, uh, well, it's for me.

P, P, uh, you know, don't like, feel much. P, U, S, H, I believe. Really? Yup.

That's what she named him. Push. That's interesting. But, uh, you know, if that, that blame thing is going to be around here for, you know, seven years, uh, I'm gonna have to, I'm gonna have to eat to get used to him and run him off.

And, and of course, I don't bear to do that because that's, that's Emily's baby. Yeah, she wouldn't appreciate that. No, she wouldn't. But, you know, kids get attached to a pet like that, I guess.

Well, you know, she raised him up a dog boy from a, from a baby. And, uh, I never did things she could do it. But, uh, you know, she's patients is what she was. And, uh, but anyway, uh, I thought, uh, I thought maybe you might have some different, uh, word on the subject, you know, I know you've been raised in woods.

But, uh, one thing, one thing I tell you, uh, what was the woman's name? I can't remember much. Oh, Flossy, but Flossy. I'm gonna tell you something.

You tell Flossy that something that'll attract possums and coons to. If she's got cats, if she puts cat food outside, that'll attract them. And I know that for a fact. You mean they'll eat cat food as I want you to serve, buddy.

And like I said, I know that for a fact. Well, that would, uh, you know, if they'll eat cat food, that would keep them out of their in-house, I believe. Well, it, it, it, it, think of it as it cat food will attract them. And then if they eat the cat food and they're still hungry, they'll search around for she's feeding the cats and they'll run into that in-house.

But, but I'm just telling you, tell her cat food, if she feeds her kitties outside, it definitely attracts them. And I, like I said, I'm not just saying, making up. I know that for a fact. Well, Dolan, I'm gonna tell you one thing.

She has to feed. She got back. Oh, I guess 20 to 30 cats over there. Oh, well, well, and she has to feed them outside because you couldn't let that bunch of cats come inside.

You'll they run you out of the house. Right. They would, but that'll sure that cat food and positive go for it. I know I've seen it and she got, she got wild cats over there that, you know, they, they run under the house when you, when you come up there and she's only one that can, they'll come around her.

But the rest of us, you know, they just wild. They don't, they don't have nothing to do with people at all. Well, they still eat. She still feeds them.

Oh, yes. She got to, you know, she feeds them that pre-enter cat. Yeah. Well, that's what they were eating when I put cat food out from my cat.

I've seen them coming eat it boy. Well, you know, it's good to talk to you. I wanted to tell you that I got in some trouble while back. And so I'm gonna have to tell you next week what happened with this judge down here.

But oh hell, that's the reason I'm doing these, these podcasts here, of course. She, she's making me do them. You know, it ain't my idea, but right. She's making me do them.

Well, it's not, that's not a bad thing though. No, and it's good to, you know, visit with you that way. Yeah, we get to talk. That's not a bad thing.

So, but anyway, I got, I'm on next week when you hear from me or won't be next week. It'll be two weeks. You'll hear from me every two weeks. And I can explain to you what happened down here that, that made me have to do these, these podcasts.

Okay. Well, also, also, Blois, keep me up on Flossie there about her possum. I want to, she can't feed her cats. She's gonna have some more possum.

Oh, she sure is, no boy. I didn't know about that. I didn't know about that cat food. I really didn't know that.

Well, you know, one time, uh, Blois, I was, uh, living in this little, bitty place behind the school, uh, like a little apartment, you know. Yeah. Yeah. And I had a cat, I had a cat name with Pruitt.

Great kid. I loved that kitty. What was the name? Pruitt.

Spill it. P-R-E-W-I-T-T. See. Oh, oh.

The name of that building where I live back in the back, that was called Pruitt. Oh, I see. And you just read it. I, I, I, I, I, I, I leave my door open by six or eight inches when I left out.

So Pruitt could get in and eat his food. Well, I come, I come back to my apartment one day, and they'd open the door and they would have possibly been out of the cat boat. That's a fact. Did you, did you, did you catch him?

Well, no, he took all the way. He saw me. Also, I woke up one night and I kept hearing, I leave a door open for Pruitt. And I hear him.

I heard that something, munching on that cat food. And I woke up and looked over at him and possibly just eating that cat food out of the boat. So I yelled at him and he ran out the door and went, walking it off down the sidewalk. But that's the truth.

That cat food, that cat food will pull him in boy. Boy, I'll recollect that. But if I ever get to that, if I ever get ready for some more barbecue possum, you know, you could use that to total a possum in and into, you know, he'll look like you certainly could. Well, uh, no, I got, I know you've got to get to work and I do too.

So I'm going to let you go. And like I say, next two weeks, I'm going to have to do another podcast. And I'm going to be straight into you. You know, why I'm doing these podcast.

Okay. Well, you know, I'll be here waiting on your call. And then another thing that you'll, I'll straighten to you. But you're going to have to do, uh, you're going to have to do a podcast.

I know you'd help me. That's the reason I told the judge, I said, yeah, I've got a buddy that'll help me. But I'll straighten to you in two weeks. In two weeks.

Well, I'll be waiting. Okay. Well, it's good to talk to you, though. And you just, you hang in there and if I get in more possums, I'll call you.

You got them right. Keep me posted. I'm interested in that. Okay.

Well, you take care, son. And I'll talk to you later. You got it, boys. Thank you for calling.

You bet you. Bye, bye, buddy.