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Police officer evicts an opossum who was inside of a fireplace in Kansas

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 22 Sep

A Shawnee Police Officer in Kansas answered an emergency call from a home on Monday September 15 who was trapped inside the fireplace. The police officer was able to remove the opossum from being inside the fireplace in a safe...

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Authorities rescue an opossum from a bridge in Michigan

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 29 Jun

Police officers from the Mackinac County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) and officers from the Mackinac Bridge Authority answered an emergency call about an opossum who was seen on the bridge. Thanks to the teamwork of the deputies and...

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Opossum eats a huge cake in a yard in Nebraska

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 24 Feb 25

Kim Doggett who is a resident of Gretna Nebraska purchased a cake from a Costco store as she placed the cake in her back yard on Tuesday February 11. Kim was amazed that a female opossum managed to eat the entire cake which made...

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A female in Texas finds an opossum on her Christmas tree

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 8 Dec 23

A female who lives in Texas even though which city she lives in was not mentioned who goes by the stage name brettbart359 shared a video on Tik Tok about a week ago that she saw an opossum hidden on her Christmas tree. The female...

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Female praised as a hero for getting rid of an opossum inside of a bar in Texas

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 9 Apr 23

Even though this incident on April Fool's Day in Nacogdoches Texas, the actions of a female cowgirl who was inside the Banita Creek Hall who showed calm and courage to remove an opossum who had entered the country bar just before...

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Firefighters in California rescue a dog that was trapped under a slab of concrete

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 26 Aug 22

A dog that was chasing an opossum in Union City California had the bad luck of being trapped under a cement slab on Tuesday morning. The owner of the small dog who is female called 911 to seek help from the Alameda County Fire...

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Opossum sighting at a girls bathroom in an elementary school in Florida

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 18 Aug 22

This story that comes from Brevard County Florida yesterday when an opossum whose gender was not mentioned entered the girls bathroom at the Indiatlantic Elementary School on Wednesday morning. Brevard County Sheriff's Office...

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A strange opossum story from Wyoming

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 18 Jun 22

Chris Thomas who is a deputy with the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) in Wyoming responded to a call from a resident located west of Rock Springs three days ago when an opossum was located under the home. Officer Thomas...

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A deputy in Georgia gains a friend after a rescue mission

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 28 Apr 22

Forsyth County Sergeant Pittman is making some good news in Georgia after he rescued a baby opossum who needed his assistance after the mom of the animal was separated over the weekend. What was the cause of the mom opossum and...

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I Found A Baby At My Door Tonight

Debscrochet @Debscrochet (1947) • United States 1 May 18

I went to go out my door tonight and found this little Opossum munching on the bird seed i threw out to the birds. It was a little guy about as big as my hand. I have chickens, so as cute as it was, it means possible trouble for...

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Has Your Pet Ever Got Into Alcohol ??

BusyBoss @Luap1050 (878) 2 Dec 17

I came across this story of an Opossum breaking into a Liquor store, knocking down and breaking a bottle of Bourbon and then drinking it ALL!!! So it got me to thinking, has a pet of your ever got into a beer or other alcohol...

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Opossum breaks into a liquor store

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 2 Dec 17

From the odd news stories of the week comes a report from Fort Walton Beach Florida when a female opossum broke into a liquor store and drank a full bottle of bourbon which made the animal sick. An employee who works at the liquor...

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An Oppossum Out in the Middle of the Day?

Morgan @OneOfMany (12150) • United States 17 Mar 17

On my afternoon walk the dog found itself a rare daytime sight and my mother and I quickly called it back. The slow, lumbering animal we initially thought to be a porcupine looked at us with its white head, and we knew that it was...

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Animal Recycling?

Peter B. Giblett @pgiblett (6524) • Canada 29 Feb 16

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...

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I had a visitor...

ElicBxn @ElicBxn (64169) • United States 2 Sep 12

You know I have a lot of cats. Well, only one of them goes outside and because we had some issues of the feral cats coming after her in the middle of the night, we have started keeping her in at night. So, I brought her in and...

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I saw a 'possum!

ElicBxn @ElicBxn (64169) • United States 27 Jun 10

I was stepping outside Thursday night and I saw a movement up the tree in my front yard. Now, I see pretty good for someone in my mid-50's and I realized right off that I was seeing an opossum. I used to have one that lived...

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Opossum

marie2052 @marie2052 (3691) • United States 21 Jun 10

I started a discussion on Possums earlier and everyone was asking what they looked like. This is our beloved Scrat. He is a marsupial and also his tail is prehensile meaning he can use it to hold on to you kind of like a monkey...

Drunk Man Caught Trying to Bring a Dead Opossum to life.

Vintervarg @Vintervarg (697) • Estonia 29 Mar 10

This one made me laugh like crazy! Read on BBC news page... In Pennsylvania, a drunk guy was charged by the police when he was found giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to a long-dead opossum in the middle of the highway. I could...

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Here is something for ANYONE who needs a good laugh

lilwonders @lilwonders456 (8214) • United States 26 Mar 10

A Pennsylvania man was arrested for public drunk by the state police...not funny right? Well it gets better. When the police showed up they saw the man doing CPR on a dead opossum. "Several witnesses observed Wolfe's failed...

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Black opossum

snowcat46 @snowcat46 (2322) • United States 7 Mar 09

I've seen enough possums to know what color they are. But one of the dogs brought something black into the yard. My first thought was SKUNK!! It was all black with a bit of white. But it wasn't. It was a 'dead' black bodied...

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