Thanks, I’ll check that out later.
We had a couple that hubby found as babies. I think he found them with their mom, so he knew they were orphans.
I don’t really remember if he meant to make pets of them or was just trying to protect them until they were adults. He kept them in the rabbit hutch * but we didn’t know that you have to keep them apart.
One of them took out his brother. To be fair, they were enclosed so it was an unnatural situation for them. It was kind of grisly, though, and this has probably colored my perception of possums.
* The rabbit died.
MDavis – what the NZers and Aussies call a possum is not a member of the possum family (though they do have a native possum which they gave an entirely different name). It’s confusing.
Dogs are like Grace from Gawd, they are given, we do not earn or deserve them.
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Klingon you say?
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What kind of possum is that!? It’s actually kind of cute, not like the bedraggled, pale tooth-rats that I used to see in our old neighborhood.
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The Americas have only one kind of possum, and they are actually kinda cool.
Rgds,
TG
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The ones I’ve seen don’t look like that one. They look more like this:
Here’s the top picture I get when I search on Possum new zealand:
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The Stuff You Should Know podcast did possums, and the little beasts are terribly fascinating.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/episode/how-opossums-work-108592760/
Rgds,
TG
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Thanks, I’ll check that out later.
We had a couple that hubby found as babies. I think he found them with their mom, so he knew they were orphans.
I don’t really remember if he meant to make pets of them or was just trying to protect them until they were adults. He kept them in the rabbit hutch * but we didn’t know that you have to keep them apart.
One of them took out his brother. To be fair, they were enclosed so it was an unnatural situation for them. It was kind of grisly, though, and this has probably colored my perception of possums.
* The rabbit died.
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MDavis – what the NZers and Aussies call a possum is not a member of the possum family (though they do have a native possum which they gave an entirely different name). It’s confusing.
Rgds,
TG
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The only thing that dogs do wrong is allowing us to outlive them.
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Well, they could pick up their own poop; I mean, come on.
Then we’d all be asking ‘who’s a GREAT boy?’
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