Crazy opossum lady

[valerief]

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[texanwitch]

1. I am not sure what to make of her.

I guess is all in fun but you never know.

[valerief]

3. I'm sure it's all in fun and she loves her opossums. I think she's a hoot. nt

[narnian60]

9. I do, too.

[Heidi]

2. How to properly massage your opossum:

[valerief]

4. Whew! Thank god it wasn't a happy ending massage.

[Heidi]

5. Who knew that possum massage

could be so theatrical? I learn something new every day.

[mnhtnbb]

6. I had one (opossum) visiting my bird feeder this morning

[valerief]

7. Great picture. I had a recent encounter with an opossum, but it was at night

and from a distance. I didn't know anything about the critters and looked up info on them. They're pretty interesting.

For starters, they're as smart as pigs. And they're not aggressive (unless you try to pick one up). When they hiss, it's just a bluff. They're marsupials and have a low body temp, so they don't pick up diseases such as rabies like placental mammals do. They're immune to venomous snakes (and will eat them).

When they play dead, it's involuntary. It's actually a seizure that lasts 40 minutes to 4 hours. They pee and poo like an animal just killed would, and they emit a decaying stink. That keeps other varmints from eating them.

They're nature's groundskeepers. They'll eat up all your vermin and in a couple of days will move on, as they're nomadic. They spend their days hunting for food, sleeping, and grooming themselves (like a cat). They don't hang from trees with their tail. They just use it as an extra hand.

If you see an opossum outside, leave it and don't feed it. It belongs outdoors. However, sometimes, baby opossums with roadkill mamas are rescued and kept as pets. They can be good pets and can be paper-trained (remember, they're clean as cats and smart as pigs!).

Uh-oh. I'm turning into a crazy opossum lady myself.

[sakabatou]

16. Funny, my dog tried to "eat" a possum playing dead

Got his ass bit in return. Of course, this was YEARS ago.

[Ineeda]

8. What a hoot!

This is YOU, all over the place, if you had access to an opossum, of course. And I forwarded the massage one to you-know-who in New York. All the possum woo-woo, chakra, chi stuff is hysterical.

[valerief]

12. Yeah, I'd love to be the crazy opossum lady. She's clearly having fun with this. nt

[Mojorabbit]

10. She is a great wildlife rehabber. Great sense of humor! nt

[texanwitch]

11. I have one that lives at my house it likes cat food.

With all the townhouses coming up there are less places for the creatures to live.

[Brigid]

13. Those things creep me out!

[valerief]

14. They creeped me out, too, until I read up on them. They're not creepy at all now! nt

[HappyMe]

15. Yup.

They look like rats!

[magical thyme]

17. that's hysterical!

[Baitball Blogger]

18. She's a throwback to a gentler time.

[Jenoch]

19. I remember the first time I saw an oppossum.

It was wintertime and my dad had a live trap to catch rabbits that were eating his apple trees. He caught an oppossum instead. The thing was hissing and we did not know how it would react when we attempted to let it go. I thought it might attack like a cat so I put on some long leather welding gloves, opened the trap and it slowly ambled over and climbed a big pine tree. It had sufferd frostbite on it's ears.