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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Possums are marsupials, not rodents.
It’s hard to tell if he really needs to be hospitalized because of the blood sugar, he’s an opossum... :^)
“Opossums also try to run across the road to beat oncoming cars. Just to get to the other side.”
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To show the Opossums it could be done.
Did she expect it to wash its hands?
To paraphrase Don Barzini from The Godfather, “After all, we are not raccoons.”
I’ve seen JCS so many times that can I pretty much sing it in my head start to finish.
But the possum thing cracks me up.
:D
Have the original and the movie soundtrack.
I have at least 3 DVDs of the movie.
:D
😆
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