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April 23, 2010

The new neighbours



I don't like to sound uncharitable, but the new neighbours are a bit wild. Someone is really going to have to speak to them about the noise.

Honestly, I know they have a new baby, but do they have to make such a din at all hours? They shriek and squeal and fight so loudly.

Perhaps it wouldn't be quite so bad, if it weren't directly above my bedroom at 3:00am. What a bunch of animals.


Nocturnal mother and baby Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) in our garden last night.
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18 comments:

  1. Christina LowryApril 23, 2010 at 5:24 PM

    Perhaps a call to the RTA is in order, or maybe a quick call to these guys? http://possumremoval.com.au/

    My sister had a possum stuck in a wall at her last house. Took three days to get him out! Her dog was going nuts. :)

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  2. Jennifer RoseApril 23, 2010 at 6:56 PM

    awww how cute :)
    but yes maybe a call to get them removed and relocated might be in order before they bite someone?

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  3. Lexi:: PottyMouthMamaApril 23, 2010 at 7:16 PM

    They are so cute! But not so cute in the middle of the night, I agree. Can you imagine carrying your child around when it is that big?? !

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  4. StephApril 23, 2010 at 7:36 PM

    What a lovely photo! They look so cute and fuzzy...but they sound like screaming banshees on your roof! Ours resident marsupials are munching through our vegie patch like there is no tomorrow :)

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  5. Cath @ chunkychookyApril 23, 2010 at 8:04 PM

    I am hearing you sister! I hope they move out soon.

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  6. Buy DesignApril 23, 2010 at 9:16 PM

    Nothing worse than noisey neighbours even if they are cute. We had to evict a family of crows who nested in our roof every spring. I'm convinced they wore clogs, the noise of them trotting over our flat roof was incredible.

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  7. posie blogs Jennie McClellandApril 23, 2010 at 9:42 PM

    Um, a little like the Californian neighbours Samantha had in the Sex & The City movie, non?? Oh, look away . . . they're not shy are they??!! Love Posie

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  8. KPBApril 23, 2010 at 10:28 PM

    Just wait until she starts pissing on your outdoor furniture and decimating your backyard.

    Have I mentioned the love/hate relationship we have with the possums that frequent our backyard? YEAH.

    Oh - if they're in your roof, it is ILLEGAL to move them more than 50 metres from your house. Apparently doing so will kill them. I have plenty of other ways of keeping their lives shortened from associates if you're interested.

    That's right, it's all Underbelly 4: suburban marsupial massacre over here.

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  9. willow and mooApril 23, 2010 at 11:42 PM

    Oh no! They are noisy creatures. We had a couple living in our wall because of a hole in the roof during renos. It was annoying to hear them clawing up the wall at 1:00am!

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  10. teddybearswednesdayApril 24, 2010 at 8:27 AM

    hehe! And i bet they are trashing you garden too.
    Perhaps a visit from Pete the Possum man is in order, nothing toxic and takes them to a nicer place literally out in nature. xo

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  11. VireyaApril 24, 2010 at 9:39 AM

    I find all the comments from people who want to kill the possums a little disturbing! They are a protected species, and really it is a privilege to have native wild-life in your backyard. Because they are territorial, moving them anywhere is also illegal - if they are in the roof they can be moved out of the roof, but they can not be "taken to the country". That would cause their deaths.

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  13. ShontelleApril 24, 2010 at 2:30 PM

    I have possums at my place too. The first time I heard them hissing and screaching outside my bedroom window I thought I was about to be attacked by a depraved felon.

    For such a cute looking animal they make very un-cute noises.

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  14. dillpickleApril 24, 2010 at 2:38 PM

    Yes, possums. Very cute from a distance, not if they take up residence anywhere near where I live. I used to love possums, then I moved into an old house in Brunswick that seemed to be shared with half the possum population of the suburb, who would have turf wars in my bedroom wall at 3am. I think NZ possum laws are much better than ours!

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  15. UnknownApril 25, 2010 at 3:04 PM

    Wow, your possums are much cuter than our possums! http://bit.ly/aw7BrN Ours are more in the "giant rat" genre.

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  16. LunaMoonbeamApril 26, 2010 at 4:34 AM

    I see a lot of people calling those possums. Can that be true?! They look like lemurs...and nothing like our "giant rats." (well put, Genevieve!) Our possums are seriously ugly....

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  17. muralimanoharMay 7, 2010 at 10:04 PM

    Oh, hey, those are little...uh...creatures that used to thunder and rampage in our roof every night. They look cuter over at YOUR place than mine. :p

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  18. KateMay 12, 2010 at 1:10 PM

    I saw some at my sisters waiting for the taxi at 4am. They are awfully cute.

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