View Full Version : Look what the human drug in!
TIFFERS
03-28-2008, 08:36 PM
Drug...that's Texan for ya'! :D
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd182/tdyannd/WDVC/S5002196.jpg
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd182/tdyannd/WDVC/S5002201.jpg
Ummmm, what is it? I will guess it might be a baby possum??
Julia423
03-28-2008, 08:56 PM
It reminds me of a story...years ago, when my brother was in high school, an older neighbor lady came running to the door in a state of hysterics. She was rambling on about giant rats in her backyard. Yup, you guessed it...possums. A mama with four or five babies trailing her was walking along the fence. My brother reassured her and waited with her until she was safe again!
jamescool123
03-28-2008, 09:00 PM
cool possum I found a ground hog and feed it for a while and petted it.
krazy4birds
03-28-2008, 09:13 PM
OOOOOH boy! A baby possum..... what is the story on this critter?
TIFFERS
03-28-2008, 10:06 PM
...I have no idea. One of the receptionist came to the back and said, "Look at this!" ...we had a rehabilitator pick the baby up later that afternoon. :)
krazy4birds
03-28-2008, 10:21 PM
I guess the poor baby got orphaned somehow.....maybe he was "spared" for some reason?
TIFFERS
03-28-2008, 11:14 PM
You know in Texas, especially are area...a vulnerable wild animal is just as good a meal as anything. :( ...who knows where Mama ended up.
krazy4birds
03-28-2008, 11:33 PM
Yeah Tiffany...that was what I was thinking too..... I am Texan born! In Borger,Texas. In the Panhandle. My dad started working in the Phillips Petroleum Plant when he was 16 and retired from there.....ooooh how I remember the carbon black that comes out of those broilers aaaaaaaaaack!
TIFFERS
03-29-2008, 07:58 AM
I can't tell you the number of times someone hits a deer and leaves it there, and then some big ol' Texan comes behind them and picks it up and takes it home. :eek: :(
But, this wee oppossum was stil alive and didn't seem to be harmed at all. I even pet him! :D
dlaura
03-29-2008, 08:56 AM
So are you goiing to raise him until he is big enough to return to his natural habitat.
Ltlpistol
03-29-2008, 10:18 AM
How cute. Do you guys get updates on the wild ones from the rehabbers?
TIFFERS
03-29-2008, 01:37 PM
No, dlaura. A rehabilitator picked him up that afternoon.
And no, we don't get updates unless we call and check and then half the time they don't know who took the animal.
katiem
03-31-2008, 03:19 PM
Cool! We don't see many of those here.
A couple of years ago though I was working in the shelter and a lady came in with a ferret that she found in her basement. Yep, you guessed it, it was a possum! Apparently she had kept it in a cage all weekend and had been playing with it! It was huge, very obviously an adult and pretty ticked off. We sent it off to rehab.
nanamouse
04-03-2008, 09:28 AM
An old trailer I omce rented had a hole in the floor under the bathtub, and a young posum got in and made her way under the floors to the kitchen cabinets. She stayed there mos of the winter, and would push the door under the sink open when she wnted food. Her favorite was cornbread, she'd reach out and take it from my hand with hers. Then she started getting older and seemed to more tolerate petting than enjoy it, and as the weather was better we caught her ouside one night and boarded up her hole. I was afraid she'd come back one night and have baby's in there. They're really cute little critters, I love their little hands.
The full grown male who got trapped in my henhouse one night back in Texas wasn't so cute though, hissing like an angry cat. Might have been closer to cute had the hens not pecked him half bald?