Anyone seen a wild pregnant possum?

[Baitball Blogger]

I've never seen an animal carry so low. Anyone know how I can upload four pictures?

[csziggy]

1. Maybe she's just carrying the babies around in her pouch

Remember, possums are marsupials.


This opossum is not pregnant. She is carrying 9 infants in her pouch.
http://www.opossumsocietyus.org/opossum_reproduction_and_life_cycle.htm

Who'd have thought there was a opossum society?

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Of course!

That would make sense to me. Bad news for me, however, since the racoons and possums are cutting down on my rabbit shots.

[csziggy]

8. I know - the racoons have gotten to be the biggest eaters of my bird seed

We moved the bird feeders closer to the house so the deer didn't eat all the seed and the racoons have taken over that task. If I could, I'd take the feeders down at night, but it's hard enough these days for me to get seed in them once or twice a week.

The possums scrounge for the dropped seed but they can't quite get up the posts and reach the feeders the way we have them hung.

Maybe I'll take up varmint hunting. Or get another dog once I can walk around.

[lastlib]

15. "Who'd have thought there was a opossum society?" It's called the DLC...eom

[Baitball Blogger]

16. What do they have hiding in their belly?

[lastlib]

18. Baby Republicans?

[applegrove]

2. Are possums nasty? Do they attack humans or cats? Cause we now have possums in Ontario. Thanks

to global climate change.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I don't really care for them.

They have extremely sharp teeth, though their defense mechanism is to play dead.

I should be glad they eat rats, but that would mean that they also eat baby rabbits.

[csziggy]

9. Most cats will be intimidated by them but the possums usually are not aggressive

Possums will eat any cat food, well any food, left outside. They are more of a problem with dogs since some dogs will try to attack them and possums can bite pretty badly. But possums will play possum - fall over and play dead. It can baffle a dog.

Our last dog would go after possums that got in the barn. He'd bark up a storm, then the possum would fall over and play dead. The dog would sniff at it, lose interest and walk off. A few minutes later, the possum would get up and waddle along, catching the dog's attention, and the dog would start back barking. Possum falls over, etc.

Sometimes, I'd get fed up and using a snow shovel, scrape up the inert possum to carry it out. The stupid thing would 'wake up' and hiss at me, but it was not sure enough of the surface to try to jump off, so I could at least get it out of the barn. If it got enough of a start, it would run off, with the dog after it.

[Kali]

5. you need a hosting site

like photobucket. they have free versions, you just create an account and basically follow the directions - get a link to your pix and post that here, and it will show as the photo

[Baitball Blogger]

6. I'll look into it tomorrow.

[NYC_SKP]

7. Don't look at me.

I'm happily un-involved with any critters.

[swimboy]

10. Before you upload pictures

make sure it is really a possum you are texting and not a federal agent in a possum porn sting operation.

[mysuzuki2]

11. No one really needs to worry about possums. They don't bother anyone and they are really interesti

they are, of course, North Americas only living marsupial and that makes them special. Just pretend you live in Australia! BTW, I hear they are good eatin'.

[Odin2005]

12. I think they are cute.

[bluedigger]

13. Why? Are you missing one? n/t

[lastlib]

14. Saw one right in front of my car last night...didn't see it aftrward, though....

"Why did the chicken cross the road?"
"To prove to the possum that it could be done!"

[Baitball Blogger]

17. Here's the picture of the possum.

I have no idea how to get the photo to show up in the post directly. But here's a link to photobucket. If I've given you access to private information, someone please be kind and let me know. Thanks.

http://s1054.photobucket.com/albums/s483/glossyormatte/

[siligut]

19. Click on the photo, select "share", select "get link code", copy code for bulletin boards and forums

[IMG][/IMG]

Then just paste the code into your post.

Wow, I can see why you asked, those baby opossums must be getting pretty old/big.

[Baitball Blogger]

20. The one on the other end has a great profile.

It just needs to be zoomed in and cropped.

[meow2u3]

21. I've never seen a pregnant oppossum who wasn't wild