My Sons' New Pet???

[LadyinRed]

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you just described my mother in law

Mine too.

 

[thepromise]

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I caught my middle son Nathaniel wishing on a star, hoping for that creature to come back!

 

[ssbs]

Possums aren't mean, they rarely try to bite. And good news if they do, your have a slim chance of getting rabies. Because they aren't mammals. One of my dogs mauled one a year or two ago, it died. We came home a few weeks ago and my youngest dog ran into my dining room, there lay a possum playing dead. Apparently Sophie carried it inside. It wasn't injured, I picked it up by the tail and brought it outside. It was a cute little thing. And they are super soft furred too

 

[GAchick]

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'scuse me, but possums ARE mammals. What did you think they are? Fish, fowl or amphibians???

 

[ssbs]

They are in the infraclass of Marsupials. Because they have pouches to carry their young.

As marsupials they have body temperatures different then then that of normal rabies hosts, such as a fox. Opossums temperature averages between 90 and 97, substantially lower than that of a canine or feline (100.5-103). The rabies virus is incredibly fragile and cannot survive the variance.

 

[Imp]

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'scuse me, but possums ARE mammals. What did you think they are? Fish, fowl or amphibians???

It's obvious, just look at the tail. They are reptiles!

Imp

 

[kipper]

When we lived in the city, mobs of them would be in our yard at night, and we removed all our wild bird feeders because of them. I don't like them at all or the mess they make. I know they aren't a big threat to people, but once you see them up close, they are hard to like. They are right up there with rats as far as my dislike of them.

I will say one thing for them, they adapt well to virtually any environment. I never saw one around here during the 1960s and 1970s. Now I see a couple every day on my commute, dead on the road. They live in the city, suburbs, or country.

 

[GotChicken?]

Possums are the only predator that I'll rehome; the rest get shot. They can't get into my coop unless I'm dumb enough to leave the doors open, won't trying digging their way in like weasels (and their ilk) and skunks, and won't tear stuff up like coons. In fact, they're the only animal my German Shepard doesn't automatically go after. Like my chickens, she rather poke them with her nose and pester them then actually physically hurt them (when I brooded my babies, I put a "window" in the front of the brooder box so she could see the chooks regularly and know that they "belong"). I usually have to rescue them from the dog's attentions - they always seem so grateful

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[deerman]

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Why did the chicken cross the road ?...............................To show a possum it could be DONE

 

[Lbrad7]

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Adorable???? Please tell me you're kidding! I think he looks delicious!!! If I had him, he would already be in a pot, stewing with some onions, carrots and potatoes!!! Getting hungry just looking at him.

(I do think he would look more appetizing if he wasn't laying in a can of poop) even so...still looks mighty tasty!