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Kentucky Woman Sees Basket of Stuffed Animals and Notices Something Unusual About One
The Pet Zealot ^ | May 24, 2023 | James Alain L.

Posted on 05/24/2023 6:48:10 AM PDT by allen592

Brigette Brouillard, an animal expert who is the founder of Second Chances Wildlife Center in Mount Washington, Kentucky, was recently surprised by a resident of her Wildlife rescue.

Despite being an animal expert for several years, Brouillard was shocked by a little female Opossum named Yeti, who climbed into a basket of toys and camouflaged herself among the stuffed animals.

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TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: animals; pets
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To: allen592

Granny makes possum stew tonight


21 posted on 05/24/2023 9:16:55 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Eagles6
"Forest rats."

Actually, they are not. When I was growing up in the 1970s we used to go coon hunting. We never asked for permission to cross into other people's property, because raccoons were property destructive and the famers wanted them gone. However possums were left alone. The only crime that they were accused of was eating chicken eggs and not very often.

Several years ago, I read that one of the main food sources for possums are ticks. They eat an unbelievable amount of them. Where I live, we have a serious problem with tick diseases. I have a possum that regularly patrols my backyard. Since they only live 1 to 2 years, I am guessing that my property is a part of a possum's family territory that gets handed down to the next generation. I have lived in my house for almost 20 years and is covered with a lot of trees and undergrowth. I have never seen a tick within my fence line.

22 posted on 05/24/2023 9:18:37 AM PDT by fini
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To: allen592

That’s what I get for not reading the article carefully.


23 posted on 05/24/2023 11:12:00 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: gundog

24 posted on 05/24/2023 11:15:54 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: gundog

:)


25 posted on 05/24/2023 11:47:16 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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To: fini

I used to be awakened at night by animals coming after chickens. One hen had a nest outside my window. Coons would usually grab a setting hen. One night, I heard the hen take off, in a panic. I shined the gunlight out the window and saw a ‘possum fleeing the scene. I’m sure the hen scared the crap out of it.


26 posted on 05/24/2023 11:55:10 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: fini
I was, just, talking about their appearance.

They're common, here.

We leave them alone.

Them and deer are the most common roadkills, unfortunately.

Interesting that ticks are a food source.

27 posted on 05/24/2023 1:13:27 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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28 posted on 05/24/2023 2:08:45 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: Eagles6

I agree that they do look like rats. A decade ago we had a German exchange student that stayed with us. The cats drug into the house (through the pet door) a possum and she was the first to see it. She came running to me and in a heavily stilted German accent told me, “BILL, THERE IS A RAT IN THE HOUSE! A VERY VERY LARGE RAT!” She stood by and watched me throw a towel over the “rat” and take it outside and place it over the fence. After explaining what it was and her watching how I calmly handled it, she told me, “Well, it may be a possum, and it may not be a rat, but it will always look like a monster rat to me.”


29 posted on 05/24/2023 2:14:48 PM PDT by fini
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To: fini
Yeah, they do!

Wonder if it's, actually, like FL did, years ago.

They had a population explosion of roaches.

They, just, renamed them "palmetto bugs".

"Roaches? We ain't got no roaches. Dem's "palmetto bugs"!

30 posted on 05/24/2023 2:23:57 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: allen592

31 posted on 05/24/2023 5:43:32 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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