Animal Recycling?
@pgiblett (6524)
Canada
February 29, 2016 8:55am CST
We have often seen our recycling bins turned over by animals but yesterday morning we found an animal in the paper recycling bin, and the bin was completely upright.
You can see the animal here, I am not 100% sure what it is, but do think it is an opossum and it had gotten into our paper bin, but could not get out because of the height of the bin, which had not fallen over.
we tipped the bin on it's side for a while but the animal refused to leave, clinging, scared to the bottom of the bin for safety. After about 30 minutes emptied it out into the garden and it ran away into the cover of the trees.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
29 Feb 16
Absolutely a possum (the way us country folk spell it!)
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@pgiblett (6524)
• Canada
29 Feb 16
@AbbyGreenhill To me it looks the same as the Auzzie animal as well
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
29 Feb 16
@pgiblett I'm lazy and we spell it possum, its all the same animal.
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
1 Mar 16
Cute possum, we have motion lights in the back and see this little guy and other critters when they wander through the yard after dark. We have a critter proof Garbage can but our paper and glass and Tim are poem. Never have noticed a critter in the recycle but some nights before trash pick up the street is littered with trash, usually done by racoons.
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@pgiblett (6524)
• Canada
1 Mar 16
@PainsOnSlate I can't imagine how it got in there as it doesn't look as if it has much of a reach or ability to jump. Wat else could we do but set it free?
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@PainsOnSlate (21854)
• Canada
1 Mar 16
@pgiblett We have our bins in the garage all week until trash day, It looks like a baby but they aren't very big full grown, cute though. Glad you set him free.
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@bobo2500 (153)
• Howell, Michigan
2 Mar 16
yep, thats a Possum! (i know i mispelled that). We have a lot of them out here. Most people think of them as ugly or a nuisance, i personally think they're pretty cute and interesting. When they are scared they "Play possum" and freeze, it's a defense mechanism of sorts. That's probably why it took so long to scurry away. Either way, great photo!
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@whiteream (8567)
• United States
5 Mar 16
Wow, I have never found any little critters in my trash cans. Thank goodness, I think I would be more scared than the animal.
@pgiblett (6524)
• Canada
29 Feb 16
That is what I thought, it seems an animal with limited reach so I was curious how it climbed in the bin.
@lovebeingmummy2 (807)
• Aberdeen, Scotland
3 Mar 16
Poor little thing, that's good he eventually left your bin 
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