Now don't be too hard on Pogo's grand children. I use to peddle possums around the neighborhood for 50¢ to $2.00 each depending on size. The other children though that I was rich because I received 10¢ a week allowance, so selling a live possum for two bucks was a financial wind fall worth almost half a year of good behavior.
Most of my possum customers penned their purchases in a 55 gallon steel drum or some other shipping container. Then they gave it a laxative to clean it out, and fatten their possums for a few weeks on sour milk and stale cornbread. This created a sort of self basting or "Butter Ball" possum. After catching a possum in a dead cow's carcass I immediately understood why someone would treat a perfectly good table possum like this. I also had to hide the fact that I had caught a possum, to keep my grand dad from eating up myprofit.
No sense in letting a valuable protein source go to waste or walk away.
