Thread: Little puppa got her first possum!

We have a little kelpie x bitsa everything, we rescued her after she was dumped at 8 weeks. I posted about her before. She’s been a real handful but slowly getting there. She LOVES going bush, LOVES the gun and LOVES to run. We are on a new farm and they dogs are not aloud to run on the farm so i take them up Thompson’s and the tuahu tracks 3 times a week. Our old boy found a possum and she got it. Her first one. I was absolutely stoked. I made the dogs leave it behind and wasn’t sure what to do with the carcass. Seems a waste. The husband has done a fair bit of trapping for fur before and our old boy is brilliant at getting possums so I was wondering what should I do next time we go out if they get one? Pluck it? Keep the body and collect and freeze them for a buyer? Will they be fine to sell even though the dogs have got them and punctured them? Is there a big enough market? Iv never done possums myself but it was quiet exciting and I’d love to do it more often with the dogs and not traps, I can’t bring myself knock them on the head when trapped.