whether to love or to hate any critter furry animals out in Eureka and around Waikato

When I was young and spent my childhood times with my late grandparents – Bibby and Shorty with their sons who raised farming, butchery, carpentry and possum culling. My uncle and aunty were one of them who used possums something useful ways such as to keep the orphan young possums until they are big enough to released, or to skin them out as hides and all the furs into clothes. My uncle was a possum culler through the council even he was a butcher as a homekill (cows and other animals). His wife threaded furs into thread of possum thread that spun on the spinning wheel. How I remember that when I saw her doing it every time I visited her. She turned thread of fur into wool, then into clothes such as jerseys.That was a long time ago where people did not think about using possum furs into clothes or gloves. Today there are many clothes even gloves made from possum furs. As well, possum pies!

Recently in the early hour of this morning, our dogs caught one young possum who entered the sunroom of our house. We have not see any possums around here since we moved but we saw hit and run possums on the road side along State Highway 26. Our dogs had been really exciting to have close encounter possum..They did not mean to attacked or to kill them.  We have no problem with this one and we often get annoying with pest possums becoming destructing in anyone’s garden, native trees and among other things.

Our neighbour – C Duncan who runs the petrol station laughed when Rusty told him while filling up the petrol. Duncan said there are plenty of possums around where people likes us to hate it or to love it.

I thought about rats or mice too and they are also pests. They are becoming the habits of chewing and wreaking everything when they try to get inside the house, barn, garages carports, rubbish bins, water pump house and the list so on.

Well, looking back in my childhood with duck shooting, encountered with possums, rats/mice during the school holidays with my grandparents did not faze me as all. I have had a wonderful times and does not put me off when coming to see possums, rats or mice again in the present times. Life goes on……… We learn to live with it – to love it or to hate it.