Spy Car Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 ....poll options above. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impish Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Honestly, it would be, "What the _____?!" Course, opossums aren't exactly normal around here, let alone half eaten ones. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 If it is a fresh kill, we would be investigating for animal tracks, teeth and claw marks, etc. and doing our own home-grown CSI to determine the nature of the crime and it's perpetrator. If it is a rank find, next thought is, "Which one of my boys should I order to bury it?" The follow up thought then being, "Which one of those boys complained about schoolwork the most yesterday? HMMMMMM" We love skeletons and dissecting here :D so long as the stench isn't too bad :tongue_smilie:. Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntieM Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 "What a great opening scene for a mystery novel!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 If it is a fresh kill, we would be investigating for animal tracks, teeth and claw marks, etc. and doing our own home-grown CSI to determine the nature of the crime and it's perpetrator. If it is a rank find, next thought is, "Which one of my boys should I order to bury it?" The follow up thought then being, "Which one of those boys complained about schoolwork the most yesterday? HMMMMMM" We love skeletons and dissecting here :D so long as the stench isn't too bad :tongue_smilie:. Faith I like the way you think :D Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen in PA Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I would be looking around to see if whatever likes munching on possum is big enough to also munch on me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkacademy Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I said ewww My kids would be HOW COOL!! We already know who did it though. The same evil creature that has killed the coons, chipmunks, squirrells, other possum and of course mice. Evil our cat did it. He is almost 5 and no slowing down for him lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovin Learnin Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Definitely Eeeeewwwww!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tullia Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 We'd probably have a close look--but only if it was a fresh kill, and then wait to see what scavengers show up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arghmatey Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Other. I rarely think "ewwww", "ick", "ack", "gross", what the", or "bless her heart" without simultaneously thinking of how we can use it to teach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 There is a story behind this but my first thought to your description was, "His grandma must not have wanted the whole thing for the soup pot." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 We would be looking for tracks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Cornelia Snook Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 My first thought was the same as Jen in PA's! But while hiking recently, we came across a rather new deer carcass which we all had to get a closer look at. Then talked about the life cycle, and why the flies were crawling all over it, and how things deteriorate and become new food for other creatures. Then the stench got to be a little too much. So yeah, we pass for homeschoolers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Other. I'd think both simultaneously. Well, nearly, anyway. Maybe "Ewwww!" would win by a hair. Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2cents Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 First thought: Where is the thing that ate half of the opossum? 2nd thought: Hope it comes back and eats the rest so I don't have to deal with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I'd be calling the boy outside to come see our latest nature study. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FO4UR Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I voted "other." This happened last week...only it was a skunk. We watched from our front window as "carnivorous birds" (ds8's words) ate their fill. If they were a bit older, they'd be out there with Faith's boys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annlaura Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 My first thought would be "oh geez where's the dog?!" Because picking up half a possum would be bad enough, but wrestling it out my dog's mouth would be way worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happygrrl Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 If it is a fresh kill, we would be investigating for animal tracks, teeth and claw marks, etc. and doing our own home-grown CSI to determine the nature of the crime and it's perpetrator. If it is a rank find, next thought is, "Which one of my boys should I order to bury it?" The follow up thought then being, "Which one of those boys complained about schoolwork the most yesterday? HMMMMMM" We love skeletons and dissecting here :D so long as the stench isn't too bad :tongue_smilie:. Faith This. However I am learning the hard way about the burying part... a few days ago I noticed a h*llacious stench around the back of the house. I finally realized that after dissecting a dead bullforg (it had a crayfish inside of it!) he merely tossed the remains in a ditch behind the house. Anyone know how long it takes a bullfrog to decompose? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gailmegan Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I voted "Other". My first thought was, "I wonder what creature did the eating; and why didn't it finish the job?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 This. However I am learning the hard way about the burying part... a few days ago I noticed a h*llacious stench around the back of the house. I finally realized that after dissecting a dead bullforg (it had a crayfish inside of it!) he merely tossed the remains in a ditch behind the house. Anyone know how long it takes a bullfrog to decompose? :D Not nearly as long if you run it over with a lawn mower which disperses its carcass around the yard quite evenly. :ack2: Ask me how I know? Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momma aimee Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 "****ed dog" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrogMom5 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Hate to admit it but, yes, I call the kids to come look over the parts. Did you find one in your yard? A friend of mine is struggling financially and could not afford to buy a dissection kit for her high schooler. She gathered fresh road kill whenever she saw it and used it for dissection. She's amazing! Denise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happygrrl Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Not nearly as long if you run it over with a lawn mower which disperses its carcass around the yard quite evenly. :ack2: Ask me how I know? Faith :lol: Hmmm. Maybe we'll leave that lesson for next summer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginevra Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Other: "Great. Which pet is going to be yaking this up all night?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I'm with the Ewwww crowd. And I would suspect it was our cat. He brought a half-eaten rabbit once. It was the head and front paw half. :ack2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooh bear Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 My first thought be "Yeah, one less possum living under my house" Second thought would be "Don't tell dh, or else we will be getting stories of how his Grandma would make possum pie, and getting that look he get's when he wants me to try cooking something his Grandma made." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DianeW88 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I would be looking for my cat. Who would undoubtedly be the guilty party. :glare: Then I would have to call the Department of Wildlife and check how often opossums carry rabies. Then I'd have to sit and wait for them to come and collect said carcass and have the rabies testing done....just to make sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleIzumi Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 1st, who/what left it there???? 2nd, what parts can we study safely? 3rd, I'll leave it for dh to dispose of when he gets home :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissKNG Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 The "Adrian Monk" in me would come out before the homeschooler in me! Plus I would be worried about fleas and diseases! Bluck!:ack2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leav97 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I would shrug and toss in the garbage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 The "Adrian Monk" in me would come out before the homeschooler in me! Plus I would be worried about fleas and diseases! Bluck!:ack2: I like that show. "Mr. Monk". MY husband says that I'm alot like him. (I'm not really, but:glare: ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevergiveup Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I voted "other" because--what the heck would eat a possum? :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeidiKC Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Since we live in the city, I'd be thinking, "WHAT the heck was munching on this animal?" and might be a bit worried! We don't have dogs running loose around here, either! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdrumm4448 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 We had a half-eaten rabbit in our yard recently. Just the top half. Surrounded by a few babies that hadn't been born yet. When we woke up the next morning, even that was gone. I don't go outside at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I voted "other" simply because I believe I would have BOTH reactions. The "ew" would come first, though. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soonermomma Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 The only teaching opportunity that would take place here would be teaching them to quickly call Daddy to remove it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 When my cat finally turned on her wild rabbit "friend" (they used to sit together on the lawn) I grossed out the neighbors with a biology lesson. "Look kids, entrails!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyCrazyMama Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Other. I'd wonder if the dogs needed breakfast.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I'd check on allrecipes.com for possum casserole. Don't let it go to waste. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elise1mds Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Other, because I wouldn't be the one to find it. DS would. I should have named him McGruff. He's the one who found our chicken who died of heatstroke a few weeks back, too, and saw bones sticking out of the ground at my grandmother's house and insisted on digging them up (squirrel, by the way). Oh, and at a birthday party in April he found a nest of dead baby birds and hauled it out of a tree to show all the 5- and 6-year-olds. Some of them may have been more than a little traumatized. Whoops. I'm a little more in the EWWww camp when it comes to dead things, but I've learned to stifle it for the sake of my son's passion. I do draw the line at bringing decomposing or already-partially-eaten things into the house for "dissection" and storage. If it ain't mummified or at least fully dried, it ain't comin' in the house! And yes, we have a whole box of Latex gloves on hand as well as a massive box of sanitizing wipes. I'm not a germophobe, but there IS a line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lara in Colo Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 My first response would be "oh carp! Which shoebox of mine are the children going to steal this time? Next thought would be, what am going to say at THIS funeral (after awhile "it was a good _____ " just doesn't pass muster anymore. On a side note, when I was a child (in Seguin Texas) a (an?) Opossum wandered into the garage and I saw it out of the corner of my eye. I thought it was the cat and reached down to pet it---then I saw the tail. Having been raised in Colo, I had never seen an (a) Opossum, so I ran into the house yelling that I had seen the BIGGEST RAT EVER. Never made that mistake again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen in CO Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 (edited) "I wonder what killed it." Then I would check for tracks, scat, and bite marks. And on your lawn is much better than the last place I found a half eaten opossum. My dog had killed one if a very messy way and left it as a prize for me right beside the door. The porch light was out. The dog was barking like mad. I stepped out barefoot. It was warm. :ack2: Edited August 2, 2011 by Karen in CO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer3141 Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 We're big stick pokers here. If we are lucky enough to come across something dead, we all need to poke it with a stick. And then, I'd let my dog have at it. I feed him a raw diet for a reason. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 LOL. I made my husband slam on the breaks and pull the car over just so we could go investigate some 'possum road kill. I obviously voted for learning opportunity. We went camping and my kids maneuvered a dead garter snake near an ant hole and made observations the entire time we were there. It was fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.MacGyver Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 My first thought would be "oh geez where's the dog?!" Because picking up half a possum would be bad enough, but wrestling it out my dog's mouth would be way worse. Exactly my first thought - as this kind of thing happens regularly around here (except usually porcupines and deer - - and only when Dh is deployed... why is that?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbobeara Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I would be looking around to see if whatever likes munching on possum is big enough to also munch on me. ditto!! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloversandlions Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Other. I'd think both simultaneously. Well, nearly, anyway. Maybe "Ewwww!" would win by a hair. :iagree::lol: My son would be fascinated immediately. DD1 would be horrified and feels sad for the possum. DD2 would briefly feel sorry for the possum, but would hop right over with ds to investigate. Meanwhile, I'd be running over to our chickens to make sure they were okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caitilin Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Both!:D:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Well I didn't see it, just read about it but my first thought was do you have coyotes there> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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