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‘Cake Bandit’ opossum hospitalized after indulging in an entire Costco cake
CNN ^ | Updated 8:49 PM EST, Sat February 15, 2025 | By Dawn Sawyer, CNN

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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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cake; costco; freepun; lol; opossum
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1 posted on 02/16/2025 1:06:34 PM PST by thecodont
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To: thecodont
To quote W.C. Fields: "Death, where is thy sting?"

Or "Jesus Christ, Superstar": "Always knew that I'd be an opossum!"

Regards,

2 posted on 02/16/2025 1:08:24 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek
Or "Jesus Christ, Superstar": "Always knew that I'd be an opossum!"

?????

3 posted on 02/16/2025 1:12:53 PM PST by thecodont
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To: thecodont

I just read this post to my wife and granddaughter. They both liked it a lot. 😄


4 posted on 02/16/2025 1:14:26 PM PST by the_Watchman
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To: thecodont

Opossums also try to run across the road to beat oncoming cars. Just to get to the other side.


5 posted on 02/16/2025 1:16:06 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

So possum and grits for supper?


6 posted on 02/16/2025 1:17:34 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: alexander_busek

ping for later


7 posted on 02/16/2025 1:18:37 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: thecodont

Andy Griffith Show where the fly landed on one of Aunt Bee’s terrible home made pickles.
Barney: “Shoo, fly!” Then “It’s dead.”


8 posted on 02/16/2025 1:21:02 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: thecodont; alexander_busek

I’m probably one of the few that sang that in my head.

/knew that I would make it if I tried….


9 posted on 02/16/2025 1:23:13 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: frank ballenger

I remember that one. They had to act like they liked them.


10 posted on 02/16/2025 1:23:35 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: thecodont

Remember those Alka Seltzer commercials where they said ‘I can’t believe I ate the whole thing ‘?


11 posted on 02/16/2025 1:23:42 PM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: thecodont

Nasty critters, but at least they don’t carry rabies.


12 posted on 02/16/2025 1:24:21 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: hellinahandcart

Back porch visitor?


13 posted on 02/16/2025 1:25:25 PM PST by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Salamander; thecodont; alexander_busek

I’m right there with you, I wore out the grooves in that double LP.

LOL here, THAT was a good one!


14 posted on 02/16/2025 1:29:21 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: thecodont

[“There’s a possum on your couch,”]

It’s the first place I go after eating an entire cake...


15 posted on 02/16/2025 1:31:12 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: thecodont

Bobby Kennedy is correct. Our food is poison!


16 posted on 02/16/2025 1:32:42 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie; sauropod

My husband can’t stand possums. I try to remind him that they kill snakes and eat ticks.

But they also eat the cat’s food, and if there was a cake out there, they’d eat that too.


17 posted on 02/16/2025 1:35:04 PM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: thecodont
brown paw prints on her new beige couch

Did she expect it to wash its hands?

18 posted on 02/16/2025 1:39:08 PM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Then they bought store bought pickles and ate them all because it was cheating so Clara won her 13th blue ribbon for best pickle. Aunt Bee thought the boys liked her pickles so much she doubled the batch!!


19 posted on 02/16/2025 1:40:41 PM PST by albie (U)
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To: hellinahandcart

They are natures garbage disposal and will eat anything.


20 posted on 02/16/2025 1:41:21 PM PST by shelterguy
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