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Judy Evans @JudyEv (382061) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Nov

We camped with our Bavarian friends in Dryandra forest not far from the farm where I grew up. We’ve camped there before and, once darkness falls, the little marsupials are likely to come visiting. Sure enough, once we’d settled...

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Enjoying the nice weather

TaxiLady @Ghostlady (2358) • United States 17 Nov

Been up in the 70's the past 2 days. Did laundry today and other chores. We had Tacos tonight. Grocery tomorrow. Didn't see a lot of birds, but the squirrels were busy todya chasing each other. Saw the Possum tonight. Think I...

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A guest for dinner

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382061) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Aug

The photos were all taken by Vince. It’s a brushtail possum that visited our camp at Dryandra in Western Australia. Australia’s possums are quite unlike the American opossum. There are two species – the brushtail (Trichosurus...

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Making friends with a possum

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382061) • Rockingham, Australia 1 Aug

We arrived home a few hours ago after spending two nights camping with our son who is visiting from Ireland. Vince’s brother also came with us. He and our son slept in tents and we were in our motor-home. We had power the first...

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Pretty trees all lit up - and a possum for good measure

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382061) • Rockingham, Australia 24 Jul 23

The image is a collage of photos that Vince took at the LightScape that we went to in King’s Park, Perth, recently. I didn’t take my camera but Vince has kindly said I can use any that he took – as I knew he would....

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Found Out Why the Dogs Were Barking Last Night

Kareng @kareng (80243) • United States 28 Mar 21

When I went outside this morning to feed the dogs, I was walking along my normal path when I suddenly stopped. A little to the left of my foot was a heap of a dead animal. Upon closer observation, I found it to be a possum. I...

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A pony called Possum

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382061) • Rockingham, Australia 24 Aug 20

The pony in the photo is Possum. When I married and moved away from home, my father continued to take two ponies to the local Pony Club in Narrogin, Western Australia, as mounts for members who didn’t have a pony. Vince put this...

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More Possum Problems

Jo Ann @akalinus (44366) • United States 11 Aug 19

The possum problem is only getting worse. The other night, there were two of them tearing up my kitchen cupboards. They ripped open my ramen noodles and gorged themselves on a box of cereal. At least, the noodles are cheap....

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Possum Problem

Jo Ann @akalinus (44366) • United States 3 Aug 19

I was sitting in the dark, working on the computer. I heard a noise in my garbage and turned on the light. A large snake was sticking half out. I start waving at it with a large envelope and suddenly it turned around and looked at...

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Pineapple Harvesting In Our Back Yard.

Gitara @Gita17112016 (3611) • Trinidad And Tobago 24 May 18

Today my brother and I took a walk to the back of our land to check and see if our little patch of pineapple trees had pineapples to harvest. It was a circular patch that was clean to prevent a recent fire outbreak that was set...

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Princess is an agitated cat

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169474) • United States 22 Nov 15

The last few days when it gets dark she is very agitated. I thought it was the wind or something causing her to get wild, but tonight I learned differently. We have an interloper in our yard after hours. No, it is not another...

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Possum time

Rosekitty @Rosekitty (19368) • San Marcos, Texas 20 Oct 15

Today is my 3rd Son's 31st BD and he was trying to figure out what to do with this Possum he captured in our backyard. The lil bugger loves eating all my plants. We were really trying to get the squirrels that decided it is time...

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A possum got into my house

Karen Waterson @rosekiss (30413) • Eugene, Oregon 20 Sep 15

I leave my back door open for the dogs to go in and out, and i have alwyas left it open until we go to bed. Well, one night, I was sitting in my chair watching tv, and I heard something in the dog's dish. I didn't know what it...

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Do you have wildlife visitors in your backyard?

VKXY62 @VKXY62 (1605) • Australia 22 Oct 12

Hi, does anyone else have any photos of the wildlife visitors in their backyard? I'd love to hear about them or see a photo of them. Here is a photo of a mother possum and her baby, come to eat the leaves all around them, they...

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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...

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byfaithonly @byfaithonly (10698) • United States 28 Feb 08

Ok, had a horrid time figuring out what interest to post this discussion under but figure when people start reading the answers to this question it's got to make other people happy... I would have to say the strangest thing in...

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New species of giant rat and tiny possum discovered

xParanoiax @xParanoiax (6987) • United States 18 Dec 07

http://news.aol.com/story/nc/_a/giant-rat-discovered-in-lost-world/20071217090909990001 I think it's cool. And I hope that no matter how the world progresses we continue to find more and more new species (but I also hope...

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This cracked me up on 11/4 Desperate Housewives!

tentwo67 @tentwo67 (3382) • United States 5 Nov 07

All in all it was another great episode. I'm really enjoying this season. What cracked me up the most in the show was the throwaway line by the obgyn as he was crossing the street, "Does this having anything to do with that...

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