Thread: Possum.

There's been some very hot days this summer.

I have a 4 foot aquarium next to my couch along the wall. I was sitting on the couch a few nights ago watching TV when I heard a tiny sneeze. I turned around and there was a little baby/juvenile possum perched on top of my aquarium drinking the water.



After taking a few shots with my camera, I looked up the internet and found out that they can be fed apples amongst other things, so my girlfriend cut a piece and I gingerly handed it to the possum, half expecting it to bite off my fingers. It started licking the apple, then it licked my finger, and then it climbed on my hand and ate the apple. My girlfriend snapped the following shots:



It was very hungry.





And then, after it finished eating, it curled up and went to sleep in my hand. For a wild animal to do this, it must've been extremely thirsty, hungry, and tired.





We wrapped it up in an old towel and placed it in a padded ice cream tub, and I placed the tub on the night stand next to the bed.

But my cat woke me up before sunrise to tell me that the ice cream tub had fallen off at some point. We searched all over the house, no sign of the possum. All we can do is hope that it found its family again or is otherwise ok up in the trees somewhere in the suburb.

That is a good looking, cute possum. They can be domesticated. The opossums we have here, I believe, are the only marsupials in North America. They are vey ugly, scary ugly with long hairless snouts and tails.

Gary

I have seen your North American cats, I think they're a misunderstood species. Mainly because I think they're actually opossums.

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Originally Posted by traamisvos

i have seen your north american cats, i think they're a misunderstood species. Mainly because i think they're actually opossums.

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roflmao!

Oh, that North American species look a lot less friendly and trusting than your little guy James.

Barrie

I think it was friendly and trusting because we didn't try to feed it with cat food.

Originally Posted by Luke

roflmao!

+1 ...

James, I just love this story, and the photographs. Baby must have fallen from mother, or perhaps mother died in the heat, seems like it was prepared to have you as Mum. Cats and possums arent good friends, sadly.

My cat has brought home lost baby birds before for me, unharmed. I think he may have found this little thing and brought it home too. My cat was behaving a little strangely in a non-aggressive way before I realised there was a possum in the house.

Originally Posted by Gary

That is a good looking, cute possum. They can be domesticated. The opossums we have here, I believe, are the only marsupials in North America. They are vey ugly, scary ugly with long hairless snouts and tails.

Gary

To be fair they only get scary ugly after they grow up, they're actually pretty cute when young.