Possum breaks into liquor store, gets skunky drunk
Michelle Pettis, a wildlife health technician at the Refuge, said the juvenile female opossum was brought in by a Fort Walton Beach Police Department officer Nov. 24. He said the opossum was found by a Cash’s Liquor Store employee at the AJ’s on the Bayou location who discovered the opossum next to a broken and empty bottle of alcohol the morning after Thanksgiving.
OKALOOSA ISLAND — An opossum that snuck into a liquor store and apparently helped itself to a few drinks the day after Thanksgiving was brought in to the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge for treatment before it was released Thursday.
Michelle Pettis, a wildlife health technician at the refuge, said the juvenile female opossum was brought in by a Fort Walton Beach police officer Nov. 24. He said a Cash’s Liquor Store employee at the AJ’s on the Bayou location discovered the opossum next to a broken and empty bottle of alcohol the morning after Thanksgiving.
“A worker there found the opossum up on a shelf next to a cracked open bottle of liquor with nothing in it,” Pettis said. “Assuming the opossum drank it all, he brought her to us, and we looked over her and she definitely wasn’t fully acting normal.”
Pettis said the opossum appeared disoriented, was excessively salivating and appeared to be pale.
The staff quickly pumped the marsupial full of fluids and cared for her as she sobered up.
“We loaded her up with fluids to help flush out any alcohol toxins,” Pettis said. “She was good a couple of days later and was released Thursday night.”
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