Why you should brake for possums

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14. I have a friend who found a baby possum on the side of the road...

The mother had been killed and the tiny baby was crawling on her. She stopped, grabbed the baby, took it home. Called a few vets and a friend who works at an animal shelter.

She raised the baby and he became their pet...Roamed around their house like a cat or dog, slept with her son, used a litter box. He was so ugly he was kind of cute. And if you held and snuggled him, he would hold your finger just like a human baby does. He looked very wiry, but his fur was actually kidn of soft. He got along fine with her cats and dogs.

I have a few that live in the little patch of trees beside my yard. My dog caught one last spring. I look out and see him with something in his mouth. Thinking the worst, I yelled "DROP IT"... And much to my surprise, he did! He came inside. I went outside expecting to have to dispose of a poor dead critter... It jumped up when I was about 10' away and ran under my shed!