[kstrauser]

And possums! When I learned 1) how utterly harmless possums are and 2) how voraciously they love to eat ticks, they became my favorite backyard visitors.

If you find a possum in your yard, leave ‘em be and count yourself lucky.

[oblib]

We have possums here too, and they occasionally come up to our front porch to eat our dogs food.

We also have a lot of deer here and they carry ticks that get huge on them, so they're spreading them around wherever they go. We're surrounded on 3 sides by Army Corp land that's forest and filled with critters that spread them around.

[kstrauser]

The deer are walking tick factories, aren't they? Yeah, with those around, it's going to be an eternal war.