I picked up another additional catch this morning on the same set. This time I picked up another grinner. That’s 2 additional catches now post trapping. The original total was 7 coons and 1 grinner during our initial two week trapping period. That's heavily weighted towards coons which means that either there are way more coons than possums or the DP traps aren’t as effective on possums. I’ve been thinking about putting out my live trap with some salmon to see how many grinners I’m missing and I probably need to go ahead and do just that.

Do you think coon populations and possum populations would be equal?



This one was actually a female possum carrying 7 little ones in her pouch. I went ahead and bopped ‘em in the head so they didn’t just suffer to death. Technically that’s 8 possums in one catch.