Dear List, Thank you all for help and suggestions on my possum problem. I will call the Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources on Monday (the county animal control dept. only does domestic animals) and see what they say. The google search on 'getting rid of possums' brought up a whole lot of New Zealand websites. Apparently, New Zealand had NO natural mammals as a land mass ages ago, including the possum. The possums were introduced around l00 yrs ago, from Australia, and since they have no predators there in New Zealand, they are eating up the place and decreasing habitat for the natural birds and invertebrates and such.... So New Zealand is all gung ho to get rid of them all. Good for them! Their Dept. of Natural Resources is recommending a "poison" called Challenge which is really a type of Vitamin D3 - apparently in big enough doses it kills possums and leaves birds and domestic animals alone. Sounds good to me! I'll ask the Maryland wildlife guy about it next week when I talk to him.... see if it's legal here or not. I can see me using that. I'm not so sure I can see me (ME!!) trapping the thing and then having to pick up the trap while it is in there hissing and looking at me,squealing etc and taking that thing in the trap to the local park or whatever and releasing it. No, that I cannot see me doing. Yes, I am a city dweller! My town is classified as suburb but it's really exurb of DC, located inside the beltway, and is inhabited by city folk who don't know much about possums and other critters. Thank you for this list!!! Carolyn Bethesda _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail