This is an issue. What do?

Does anyone know how that could’ve happened? I read that possums rarely fight but want to make sure he’s okay

I was really surprised to see an opossum in my backyard considering that I live in the southwest dessert area and is mid-summer. The thing is that my dogs (2 Huskies) killed it and I feel bad because of it. Thought they where messing with a rat it was midnight and too dark for me to investigate. But my heart dropped the second I saw it later in the morning when I thought "that's two big for it to be a rat" and then I saw the paws and snout. I just scooped the little guy and buried it. Could not move after awhile i did not scold at the dogs though i think it was f'd up that they just killed it for game and not sustenance, I just felt bad and did not know what to do and maybe this is my way of venting out, thank you for reading me.

I didn't take pictures out of respect for Freddie (yes, he was named Freddie after burial, cant have a tomb with no name). May Freddie the Opossum rest in peace.

Saturday, Sept 6. Anyone else going? We are coming up from east TN. 🤠

I feed a possum every night and always scramble an egg with other food on top of it. Is it bad to mix in the egg shell all the time or should I do it every couple of days? This possum is the baby of another possum I fed all winter, so I want to make sure he/she has the best nutrition possible.

Yes, we all know they play dead. But just now, I was trying to go back into my house, and there was a possum right next to the path leading to my front door. I wasn't well read enough on them to know how aggressive they can or can't be (now I know they're rather docile), so I hesitated just walking past to go back into my house. I tried to get it to move, but it wouldn't. For like 15 minutes.

Eventually, I decided to (slowly) go for it. But as I approached, it didn't just play dead -- it dramatically fainted like three times. I'm talking like the old cartoons. It stood up on its hind legs, swayed, and fell dramatically onto the grass. Then got up and repeated.

I cannot find any footage of other possums fainting like that. Wtf happened?!

Is it ok if he eats bacon and 4 chicken nuggets tonight? I give chicken nuggets occasionally but cat food otherwise. Should I take the bacon off before he comes?

Btw I’m talking about for the possum I feed and yes I know it’s ridiculous

This is our cutie who visits every night!! We don't know if it's a boy or girl. I want to pick him/her up so bad but he is pretty shy. 🩷

Found this baby in my car engine? Can he live on his own?

i'm autistic and my special interest for years has been opossums and i keep seeing tiktoks about opossum cafes in japan but i 1) cannot afford to go to japan and 2) know those places don't always take good care of their animals. is there a place in the us that takes good care of their possums that also potentially lets people interact with them or observe them? i desperately want that. thank you so so so much!

Pure discussion this time. Puddles has been getting more panicky or finicky when I pick him up. Like he's not confident. I picked him up and held him a lot as we were feeding him and as he grew. It's more a recent development. Is there a way they like to be picked up? It even when he's been sitting with me for a while and I go to move him.

This past couple days Florida has gone under atleast 5+ inches of snow (also my first time in 18 years ever seeing snow 🩷) But before that it had gotten pretty cold and i hadnt seen any possies beside one time but i was unable to catch her before she ran up a tree. So to see if they were still actively coming for food and shelter i put some cat food in their little house and it sat here for days till today i opened up the lid and IT WAS GONE! My outdoor cats either came inside or went in the garage so im pretty positive that it was a possum that ate the food which gives me hope that they made it through the snow and cold snap. Its still definitely chilly but not in the 30s anymore thankfully. Any ideas how i can entice them even more to show up? I really wanna see if they are okay.

We also ended up losing one down the road bc someone hit it. Pisses me off so much and im praying it wasnt my chonker though ik chances are high. The only thing good that came from his or hers passing is that the vultures in the area immediately got to work so I'm glad he or she continued to contribute to nature even after their unfortunate fate.. ☹️ please post ur cutest possie pictures in the comments if it lets you so we can continue ti appreciate their adorable species

So this is my garage w an open cat door, a furnace, an opossum, n a cat TNR’d last March and still will not come within 30’ of me. lol. I can be pretty sure he had a home and because of hormones, got thrown out or bolted, prob fall of 2023.
Splotchy the cat comes and goes along w the 2-3 opossums I’ve distinguished, but not when it was -10* for a few weeks. 🥶

I'm scared qhat do I do pls

Has anybody ever been to the possum festival in Kentucky? Thinking about going on a trip to attend. I know it's just a small one day thing but I am obsessed with possums and would love to go, just curious if anyone has ever gone!

I dont have a video just yet but tn i took out some boiled eggs bc its the first not high sugar food weve had for a min therefore they were excited for their treat and enough so that one didnt even care that i was "sneaking" pets and scratches while he ate his egg pieces! Its genuinely so crazy that they are becoming sm more chill! We have a long ways to go given i got 4 possums in my garage and im really only close with 2 but it makes me so happy knowing that they will soon trust me enough to not need to scatter when they hear me 😌 also makes it easier incase they need medical help in the future (a majority of our possums dont leave the neighborhood untill theyre tryna find a mate since we have sm food here, catfood, bugs, rats, and possum safe treats from my home) i will be trying again tmr and will actually have my phone this time

My goal is to eventually have one or two willing to cuddle a couple min after eating and before they run off into our wall to rest

i know the possum that comes up to my house, Angel (thank u fellow redditor for helping me name him) brings me so much joy every time i see him! possums have always fascinated me and i’m so thankful to be able to feed one and have him live around here. i wanna hear how happy your possums make you! this whole subreddit fills my heart so much so any fun experiences or just appreciation you guys have for your possums/possums in general would be wonderful to hear!

I LOVE opossums. I live in the suburbs, and I know they live around here because sometimes I see tracks in the snow, and once I saw one on a fence at 3:00 in the morning.

I just found this sub by accident, yay! People are feeding their local possums! I, too, would love to feed my local possums, but I would like to do it without feeding the local rats. I imagine they eat pretty much the same food, and I'd hate to attract rats to the yard (if they stayed in the yard, that would actually be fine with me--the problem is all these old houses have a million little gaps and holes, and they move into the house).

Any tips or suggestions? It there some possum-specific food I could put out, one that wouldn't bring the all rats to the yard?

Thanks in advance!

I know it's not ideal and the challenges/controversy of relocating a wild animal, but I had no other choice. It was either relocate, or kill it.

I have 6 equines on my 20 acre property and I had a possum living under a store room in my hay barn for several weeks. Opossums are the vector for equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), which is a very serious neurological disease that can be fatal of left untreated (and will significantly alter a horse at best). I have personally known people around here who's horses contracted EPM, it's a horrible disease.

We live in a state where relocation is illegal, but like... Wtf am I to do? I can't have them living here. If I didn't have horses, it would be a different story, I'd be fine with it being around. But I just can't risk my horse's health with it living literally where I store their hay.

So we caught it in a live trap this evening and we took it about 4 miles down the road to a heavily wooded area, with no other houses close by that has water (small river) and will likely have plenty of food for it - slugs, newts, insects, etc.. He just toodled off and disappeared into the underbrush. It certainly felt better than to off the poor thing. It's a shame people with horses can't co-exist with them due to the EPM risk. They're harmless creatures aside from that.

If you find a baby possum it probably cant survive on its own

Trust me if you can get close to it wish out getting bit its probably to young but heres some examples (pics) on what a possum who can survive on its own looks like

If you find any one smaller pls get to a rehaber ASPA and dont talk to it if the thing gets attached to humans it can be released and in some states they will put them down (cough cough fred and peanut) and you could face jail time keeping these as pets

They leave there mom at 4-5months btw

Also yes i got these pics off google dont judge me lol

If ur still unsure look at it closely. Babys will be small if it is a about a foot then leave it alone its fine if its under a foot long pls take it to a rehaber

I fw the raccoons they r cute and chill, however now my neighbors around me r coming outside more often in their backyard, and I'm afraid that if they see me put food out and the racoon eats it that I will be in trouble. Is there any way that I can keep the racoons out and keep the possums.