South Carolina opossum can make your house its living place if they are able to find food over there. Generally, these kinds of animals like to live near the mankind like in garages where they can easily hide and can steal their food from the kitchen too. Therefore, it is important to take them out from your house or yard as soon as possible. Generally, if you just catch the opossum and take it out from your house then there are a lot of chances that they will come back. That’s why most people only think that killing them in the yard only is better so that they will not come to their place again.



There are many ways to kill a Greenville opossum in the yard. The first and the easiest one is through shooting. But if you have never carried a weapon then it might not be easy for you because you can miss your shot. You have to firstly check that if this thing is legal in your area or not. There are many regions where killing animals by such means is illegal. The benefit of shooting opossum is that your work is done in just few seconds.

Another easy and the most common way are through lethal trap but you have to pay a great attention while setting up these traps. If you made even a small mistake then these traps can be harmful for other animals as well such as cats, dogs etc. Generally, fur trappers use these traps and these traps have body grip trap.

The third option is through simple poison. There are poisons available in the market to kill these kinds of animals such as arsenal poison. You just have to throw some pieces of food with poison in it in your yard. When opossum will come to eat that food then that poison will get inside its body and after some time it will die. Yeah! It sounds bit cruel but if you have tried all other options and you are not able to get rid of them then you can definitely try this one. The only thing you have to keep in mind is that you have to buy that poison which will start it affect right away and animal will not get hurt much.

These are the most common ways through which one can kill the Greenville opossum but instead of killing them, it is better to first avoid them. Therefore, you should always have a clean surrounding so that such kind of animals will not come near to your place and thus you will not have to practice such methods to take them away from your house. Also you can use scented items which work as repellents for such kind of animals. Moreover, if in case they get into your house then the best option is to trap them in the cage and them take them away to wildlife and leave them over there.

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