My Great Find of the Week

[katper]

We were cleaning our garage instead of detecting and made a wonderful discovery. This may be common in rural or small town America, but Metropolitian LA?
Katper

 

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[Monty]

Wow, a 'possum! Sure would make a deliscious "Possum Butt Pie! M nty

 

[kimsdad]

Nice marsupial! Watch those teeth - they're like needles & they have a jaw that works like a vise-grip!!

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

It is really Opossum not possum it is a very common mistake, but both works.

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For the Eastern Hemisphere marsupial, see possum.
Didelphimorphia[1]
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous - Recent


Virginia Opossum Didelphis virginiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Infraclass: Marsupialia

Order: Didelphimorphia
Gill, 1872
Family: Didelphidae
Gray, 1821

Genera
Several; see text

Didelphimorphia is the order of common opossums of the Western Hemisphere. Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene. A sister group is Paucituberculata (shrew opossums). They are commonly also called possums, though that term is also applied to Australian fauna of the suborder Phalangeriformes. The Virginia Opossum is the original animal named opossum. The word comes from Algonquian wapathemwa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum

Cute little feller.

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[dex378]

I lived in Maine for ten years and found a really good possum recipe:

1. Get your largest stockpot and put a big rock in the bottom.
2. Fill it halfway with water.
3. Add the possum and boil for 5 hours.
4. Drain , refill and boil for 5 more hours.
5. Drain , Throw away the possum.
6. Eat the rock.

 

[DD-777]

Mmm-Mmm...

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Didn't even know the ex moved to LA. learn sumpin every day.

 

[willie d]

Cool find. Now just reach right in and get him. Just the other day, I rescued 2 of them from the dumpster at work. I got a piece of twine and made it into a lasso and pulled them out. No way was I getting my hands near those jaws.

 

[katper]

We called animal control and they caught him by the foot and pulled him out. They were going to take him to a nearby Nature Park to release him because they are a protected species.
Katper

 

[radarwill]

Growing up in TN, I saw many of those.
Anyone ever hear um called "smiling jacks"?

 

[diggindeep]

We called animal control and they caught him by the foot and pulled him out. They were going to take him to a nearby Nature Park to release him because they are a protected species.
Katper

HAHAHA!!!! protected they ARENT EVEN NATIVE!!!!!

 

[nebstater]

We called animal control and they caught him by the foot and pulled him out. They were going to take him to a nearby Nature Park to release him because they are a protected species.
Katper

What state do you live in? Protected species? Tree rats, fence rats, big ugly moles, whatever you call them, but definately not a protected species. They're pretty common everywhere.

 

[MrBling]

What state do you live in? Protected species? Tree rats, fence rats, big ugly moles, whatever you call them, but definately not a protected species. They're pretty common everywhere.

Possums are game animals in most states and as such are protected. Killing one without a hunting license or out of season can be considered poaching
BTW, they are not a member of the rodent or the mole family- they are a marsupial

 

[dex378]

We called animal control and they caught him by the foot and pulled him out. They were going to take him to a nearby Nature Park to release him because they are a protected species.
Katper

What state do you live in? Protected species? Tree rats, fence rats, big ugly moles, whatever you call them, but definately not a protected species. They're pretty common everywhere.

he said metropolitan LA right in his post.

 

[twistidd]

We called animal control and they caught him by the foot and pulled him out. They were going to take him to a nearby Nature Park to release him because they are a protected species.
Katper

HAHAHA!!!! protected they ARENT EVEN NATIVE!!!!!

Actually, the virginia opposum is the only marsupial native to the United States.

Joe

 

[DJ_Quinn]

We called animal control and they caught him by the foot and pulled him out. They were going to take him to a nearby Nature Park to release him because they are a protected species.
Katper

HAHAHA!!!! protected they ARENT EVEN NATIVE!!!!!

Actually, the virginia opposum is the only marsupial native to the United States.

Joe

My ex wife thinks I have deep pockets.....

 

[mistergee]

Possums are game animals in most states and as such are protected

they are furbearers and they are trapped. they are only protected by the game laws of the state....that is there is a season and bag limits...
this is from pa.
http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/browse.asp?a=514&bc=0&c=70109&pgcNav=|

 

[Monty]

MUD, I think we all know it's Opossum. That's why I spelled it 'possum to show it was the vernacular.

M nty

 

[diggindeep]

We called animal control and they caught him by the foot and pulled him out. They were going to take him to a nearby Nature Park to release him because they are a protected species.
Katper

HAHAHA!!!! protected they ARENT EVEN NATIVE!!!!!

Actually, the virginia opposum is the only marsupial native to the United States.

Joe

WRONGO twisted........they were brought to the west coast in the early 1900s not native west of the rockies.....

 

[mistergee]

diggin your right about that...this according to penna. game commision......
The opossum is common in wooded areas throughout Pennsylvania. On a continental scale, it ranges from southeastern Canada south through New England to Florida, west to Minnesota, Nebraska and Texas, and south to middle America. It has been introduced in several western states.