Free Cat (found on FB)

[Kennah]

Seems it was also tasty.

[Lint Head]

1. That looks like Honey Boo Boo's cat!

[mahina]

2. What is that?

[Scootaloo]

4. It's a virginia opossum, Didelphis virginiana

Despite the name it spans most of the temperate and subtropical zones of the US, up into Canada.

They're neat little critters. I've heard they can be good pets, as they're by nature pretty placid, and have a non-demanding diet. They hiss a lot, but even if they try to bite, they have next to no jaw strength. Really neat thing? They're immune to rabies - their body temperature is around eighty or so. They're too cold for the rabies virus to live in. One pf the perks of being a marsupial, apparently.

Hell, they're not even pests, unless you leave out food or opened trash cans (same thing to these guys, just like raccoons)

[Heddi]

5. I <3 Opossums!

we live in Philadelphia, and the neighborhood we're in is very hilly, so our neighbors behind us are higher than we are, and there is a retaining wall about 10 or 15 feet up from the patio that runs the length of our street behind the houses (since the houses on the street behind us are higher than we are).

We call it the Possum Super Highway, and every night, about 10:30-11:30pm, my husband and I will be sitting outside and there goes Mr. and/or Ms. O'possum going down the highway. Usually they go to the end of the houses, about 4 down on the right, hang out for a while, then come back down the top of the wall and hang out on a tree branch that hangs across our yard. We sit there and watch each other. I think they're as interested in us as we are to them.

Actually that's a lie. THey want us to leave so they can eat the garbage. I know it, you know it. they know it. I don't care. we leave cat food out for them and the neighborhood kitties that wander through.

We used to have a raccoon family that lived above the woodshed when we lived in Seattle. Mama and 4-5 babies would cruise the neighborhood at night, you'd see them going from the tree in our yard across the top of the fence, through our yard, across the street, back through our yard. We'd leave treats out for them, too.

here's a pic of an opossum friend that was munching on some cat food we had left for one of the neighborhood beggar cats when we lived in Florida. Didn't even look when i came to the door to take its picture.

We were in the living room and I was like 'Dang that's an ugly cat on the porch"...because its back was too me and I couldn't see its little possum face. Then I got closer and was like "ew...it's got mange...no hair on its tail" and right then it looked at me as if to say "hey, lay off the comments, hon, you don't got no tail to begin with!" ha ha



https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=278399601655&set=a.278398576655.145783.577976655&type=3&theater

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. Lawd help anybody who took it as a pet.

Possums are one of my least favorite creatures.

[uppityperson]

6. Aha! A FBMR.

Fucking big marsupial rat

[B Calm]

7. Looks like a rural Indiana Rat