possums suck!

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  • Riverrunner
    Riverrunner Posts: 2,419
    Possums are great! Really! They are totally harmless, but like everything in nature has a purpose. Just don't ask me what it is, although I bet it is more beneficial than humans.

    Once when I was young as my parents and I were driving home from somewhere we saw a dead possum in the road and something was crawling on it. I made my dad stop (I did (and still do) rescue things). It was a baby that had survived. His siblings were dead, but he had managed to crawl out of her pouch (they are marsupials - like kangaroos). I picked him up and raised him for a couple of months. Unfortunately he got sick and died and I don't know why because he had been so healthy. Coincidentally I had been sick too, but since there are very few diseases that are transmitted between possums and humans I doubt that I caused it. But I was very fond of him. His name was Possum George Jones.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    decides2dream wrote:
    cmon now....not his/her good side. ;)


    you're forgetting this:
    http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/graphics/opossum11.jpg


    CUTE.


    besides, overall...i don't so much find them *cute*...as simply really cool. :cool: i've watch one a good deal on my front porch, and they are just bizarre creatures. i like that. :p

    bizarre is one thing....but that was the face that i saw and that is not a pleasant face to see!!! :p:D
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    nfanel wrote:
    i wish i didn't open that. it's going to haunt my dreams.

    and that's the face i saw 2 feet away......blleeeekk!! :eek: :D
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    cutback wrote:
    bizarre is one thing....but that was the face that i saw and that is not a pleasant face to see!!! :p:D



    well i am sure he/she thought the same of you. ;)
    differing perspectives indeed.
    :D
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  • Galaxie2X4
    Galaxie2X4 Posts: 151
    Riding down the road one day................

    I've got some big bastard possums in my neighborhood. They are ugly as hell. A while back one managed to get itself trapped in my garbage can. You know what it did. It played possum.
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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Galaxie2X4 wrote:
    Riding down the road one day................


    Someone hit a possum. BAM.
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  • ZiggyStar
    ZiggyStar Posts: 14,328
    tybird wrote:
    This is a North American possum, the Virginia Opossum:

    http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/graphics/opossum11.jpg

    http://www.hiltonpond.org/images/OpossumVirginia01.jpg

    http://viewfromtheloft.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/baby_possum.jpg

    http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/images/opsinbarrel.jpg

    That thing is SCARY!!!! :eek:
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    ZiggyStar wrote:
    That thing is SCARY!!!! :eek:
    Actually....they are kinda of comical......prancing around with their big, fat and bald tails....they might ignore you for a few minutes when you encounter one.

    The joke here in the Southern U.S. is "Why did the chicken cross the road??"



    "To prove to the possum that it could be done." :D
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  • BinFrog
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  • Linda
    Linda Posts: 1,656
    rhinomagic wrote:
    This vaguely reminds me of cory's thread about raccoons.

    :D

    .


    and he is, again, hunting the raccoon.....:D
    i'm not happy yet.....
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    I always think of armadillos when I hear possum.
    Must be the roadkill relation...
  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,827
    ha tim yeah my dog had a fight with one out in my back yard needless to say she lost got a bloody nose ....
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....

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