My Dad’s cousin raised opossums. They would hang from your arm by their tails. You could carry them around that way.
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Eeeeee!!! He licks his hands like I do when I’m eating cheetos!
My spirit animal. lol
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Pretty sure that’s one of the goblins from Harry Potter. 🙂
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Jethro, years ago whenever we went to Seattle, we always made a special trip to Archie McPhee’s in the Ballard neighborhood just because. My wife’s brother and his wife lived nearby in the Ballard neighborhood.
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I caught a baby opossum when I was a kid. Mom freaked out and made me turn him lose.
BTW, why is the “O” silent?
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Amazing underappreciated animals. Baby possums are very cute. If there’s a dish of water, they will wash their hands (all four). Possums are sweet, gentle, affectionate, and nature’s scavenging sanitation workers (they are omnivorous and pretty much eat everything, dead or alive, including hair and bones).
So what’s the issue? Aside from that they are kind of ugly as adults, and while they wouldn’t want to, if they absolutely positively felt they had to bite you it would be with bone-crushing jaws with 50 teeth, they have maybe the strongest immune systems in the animal kingdom. This is a two-edged sword that means that their excrement carries parasites and toxins that makes them dangerous to have around grazing farm animals, particularly horses.
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Around since the dinosaurs.
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Growing up, my friends and I came across a dead cow in a field. It had been dead for a while and turkey vultures were working it over. When we approached the rotting carcass, three possums emerged from inside where they had tunneled into it.
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Tony R,
Opossums are from North America.
Possums are from Australia.
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Cute little possum – how long before the DNR (or whoever) comes along and kills him?
Like they did P’nut and Fred.
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Claudia – That’s because the Australian version were brought to Australia by the English prisoners and the North American ones were brought in by the Irish.
Awww… so sweet. I love opossums. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
I dare you to try it:
https://mcphee.com/products/possum-candy
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My Dad’s cousin raised opossums. They would hang from your arm by their tails. You could carry them around that way.
Eeeeee!!! He licks his hands like I do when I’m eating cheetos!
My spirit animal. lol
Pretty sure that’s one of the goblins from Harry Potter. 🙂
Jethro, years ago whenever we went to Seattle, we always made a special trip to Archie McPhee’s in the Ballard neighborhood just because. My wife’s brother and his wife lived nearby in the Ballard neighborhood.
I caught a baby opossum when I was a kid. Mom freaked out and made me turn him lose.
BTW, why is the “O” silent?
Amazing underappreciated animals. Baby possums are very cute. If there’s a dish of water, they will wash their hands (all four). Possums are sweet, gentle, affectionate, and nature’s scavenging sanitation workers (they are omnivorous and pretty much eat everything, dead or alive, including hair and bones).
So what’s the issue? Aside from that they are kind of ugly as adults, and while they wouldn’t want to, if they absolutely positively felt they had to bite you it would be with bone-crushing jaws with 50 teeth, they have maybe the strongest immune systems in the animal kingdom. This is a two-edged sword that means that their excrement carries parasites and toxins that makes them dangerous to have around grazing farm animals, particularly horses.
Around since the dinosaurs.
Growing up, my friends and I came across a dead cow in a field. It had been dead for a while and turkey vultures were working it over. When we approached the rotting carcass, three possums emerged from inside where they had tunneled into it.
Tony R,
Opossums are from North America.
Possums are from Australia.
Cute little possum – how long before the DNR (or whoever) comes along and kills him?
Like they did P’nut and Fred.
Claudia – That’s because the Australian version were brought to Australia by the English prisoners and the North American ones were brought in by the Irish.
The adults stink to high heaven.