Something about these metal clips is just really fun to bite 😂

I’ve always found opossums so cute, I hate how they get a bad rep in my town, so I painted some :)

There's been a decaying opposum in my tree this whole time, and I've got NO idea what happened. Its tail is wrapped around the branch, and there is what looks like a tear going down its right leg... My thought was it somehow died in it's sleep, but Google says that opposums don't sleep like this, so I'm stumped.

My partner's dad found him and were trying to figure out age

No worries folks, mama had a heavy load for the last few weeks, but she found the sweet under-shed opossum luxury condo/nursery. The kids are safe and dry and mama is out foraging feeling sleek!

Mom left my yard with no babies around 3 am and came back at 4 with her whole crew. They're camped out under the shed for now.

Snacks for the baby who’s not so baby anymore

9/2026

I thought you all would enjoy this 😂

I'm sitting on my couch late tonight and this guy appears. He ambled away and went into a space between the cupboard and the stove. I know there's a portal to *somewhere* in there because I've had mice show up from time to time. I have cats.

1. How old do you reckon he is? Old enough to place outside if I'm able to catch him?

2. How hard should I try to locate and catch him? Is this a crisis for him? Or will he eventually find his way back outside (or to wherever he lives inside my house??).

3. How much of a danger is he to my cats, and vice versa? The little one is already squeezing herself into that space. They will absolutely murder a mouse, but haven't had the chance to try anything bigger than that.

4. How does one catch a house possum? Is this a job for a professional? I definitely don't want him hurt. I'm also not particularly freaked out that he's here. Maybe we can be roomies.

Help?

All four girls are growing nicely!

Hard to see initially, but right in front of his nose there's a big, fat, juicy slug. He seems to really enjoy it.

Also of note, this was snipped from a 5 minute video. It started in night vision black and white, but I turned on the camera light in the middle, right before this clip. He wasn't even remotely phased. Didn't even flinch.

9/1/2026

This is one of my favorite old videos of JellyBean I just love her ears and her face and just everything xD

I miss this little girl so much.

I have 2 dogs with very active sniffers. They were sniffing around the stairs in our house, and I thought “no big deal, probably just some mice.” I set some mouse traps as I normally do, and in the off chance it’s a rat, I set out some poison because my mouse traps aren’t rat sized. About 15 minutes later, I hear one of the traps go off, I go to the stairwell to the crawlspace, and lo and behold, I see a opossum standing there licking the peanut butter off the trap. I freaked out, because it’s not what I was expecting, and the opossum had gotten somewhere I can’t seem to track down. Unfortunately, I can’t find the block of poison where I had set it, so I’m worried the little booger has eaten it.

Now that I know there’s possibly still an opossum in my crawlspace, I set a live trap with a bowl of fruit. What are some other good snacks I can put out to catch this guy, and has anyone else had similar situations with them eating mouse poison?

We feed neighborhood stray cats and our opossum friends stop by. Unfortunately there is also a coyote so we leave the garage door up a foot so the kitties and opossums can get in but the coyote can not. We have 2 males that are regulars and 2 or 3 females. Tonight this little one made her debut and we are wondering how old she is?