Posted on 02/16/2025 1:06:34 PM PST by thecodont
CNN - A real estate agent in Omaha, Nebraska, recently got an unexpected houseguest – a hungry opossum who ate the entire tuxedo chocolate mousse cake she recently bought from Costco.
Kim Doggett walked outside last Sunday to find her chocolate cake on the floor of her back porch, brown paw prints on her new beige couch and a panting opossum lying on top of it.
Now fans have flooded Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, where the opossum was admitted on February 10, with messages of support for the viral “Cake Bandit” who ate an entire Costco cake.
“We’ve all been there, girl,” one person said under the wildlife rescue service’s Facebook post.
“I have also begun to (breathe) heavily after eating an entire cake by myself. Maybe not Costco but it definitely has happened more than once. I get it gurl. I get it,” another commenter said.
Earlier that night, Doggett asked her son to take her homemade peanut butter balls outside to the deck, as their refrigerator was full.
“We just (ran) out of room,” Doggett said. “And in the wintertime, it works out great, because you don’t have to try to slam everything in there. You can set it out on the back deck.”
Upon opening the door, her son quickly shut it and refused to go back out.
“There’s a possum on your couch,” Hayden Doggett, 22, said to her.
His mom didn’t believe him at first.
“I really thought he was messing with me, so I went over and I turned the light on, I opened the door, and I was like, ‘Oh my,’” Kim Doggett said. “And then I was like, ‘Oh, it ate the Costco cake.’ The whole thing almost was sitting on the ground next to the couch.”
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I had that happen to me once. The Opossum became road pizza.
Maybe instead it is a feral pig and they do not know the difference? ;-)
Knew that I could make it if I tried.
“..Nasty critters, but at least they don’t carry rabies....”
LOL..yeah. But when they’re not eating Costo cakes, they eat ticks....lots and lots of ticks. One shouldn’t kill em for that reason alone.
Don't speak for me, I shoot them......
Not many ticks in my suburban neighborhood. They just dig up the ground looking for grubs with the damn skunks.
Rest assured, you husband isn’t going to put them on the Endangered Species List.
They play dead but they don’t stay dead.
I wish they would eat squirrels.
My Dad always said that he didn't like possum at all because it was full of grease. Growing up in The Great Depression was worse than any of us could imagine.
You don’t have to lead them as much.
Hey, a possum with a cake interior might be good eating.
Oh, man, I need more coffee!
Always thought that I’d be in a parcel,
Knew that I could make it if I tried...
Artist: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Song: The Last Supper
Real Lyric: Always thought that I’d be an Apostle,Knew that I could make it if I tried..
https://www.kissthisguy.com/always-thought-that-id-be-in-a-parcel-k-misheard-18094.htm
Yeah, you heard “’possum” instead of “parcel” though.
I guess they raise young men different these days. When I was 21 if a possum ate my Costco chocolate cake I would have killed it without hesitation simply out of principal.
No nasty rodent is going to eat my cake even if mom was begging me for clemency for the filthy beast.
Mom your son is a wimp take him down to the enlistment center and leave him there.
I had to look this up. I may have been into a Costco once, decades ago.
Wow, no wonder possums are fat. Can ya blame the critter? I hope it wasn't a girl possum because she now she has the giltz, worried that her dress makes her look fat.
Around here they get lead poisoning.
Could it be that possum was pregnant?
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