Opossum feature, no popcorn required

[Pilgrim]

Oddness from Facebook/Buzzfeed.  At least the lady and her opossums seem happy.

[doombass]

Wife came into the room so I switched to porn. Easier to explain.

[westen44]

Having to pay a pest control company $250 to get one of those out of your attic is not a fun thing to do.  I asked the guy where he would put it and he said deep into the woods.  As long as it's far enough away to never come back here, I'm fine.  They are noisy.  My sister once had one in her garage, too. 

[Dave W]

She's been doing this for years. She has over 100K subscribers.

https://www.youtube.com/user/MEpearlA/videos

[Pilgrim]

Wife came into the room so I switched to porn. Easier to explain.

This post alone is justification for enabling "likes" on the forum!

I LOVE that!!

[uwe]

I like possums, they are endearingly ugly and can't help it.

No possums here in Germany, except in zoos (I wonder why, do they require more warmth than raccoons?), but recently, wee wee hours of the morning, I was riding my bike near the woods in the dark and I saw a raccoon climb very swiftly a rather high steel fence up and down - it paused at the top, looked at me (I was marveling at it), but then decided to not trust my adoration for much longer and made off. Raccoons aren't the most elegant animals, but he/she scurried up and down that steel fence like it wasn't there!

Raccoons, not native to Europe, have for more than 80 years now been an invasive species in Germany (and all hopes of ever getting rid of them again have been dashed by now, there is more than a million of them), but I had never seen one before (i) in the wild, (ii) that close (iii) for that long a time. I like them though I suspect that one of them was the culprit who ate one of my larger goldfish in our pond clean down to the fish bone one night. But that's nature, as Edith always says (when the winter-starved herons fly in!). I also have a hunch that the recent intruders of/visitors to our roof structure (we live right by the forest) were not polecats after all, but their larger and more fleshy distant (formerly) North American relatives. Aren't furry Yankees the worst! 

[4stringer77]

They make a god meal in a pinch. Don't tell crazy possum lady.

[uwe]

When my son and I took a road trip through the South, we desperately wanted to try possum stew, but could not find it offered anywhere! It probably tastes like rabbit.

[Dave W]

I was surprised to see a fat possum waddling across my front walk near dusk today. Not a usual sight at this time of year. It disappeared around the far side of my garage.

[uwe]

If they can survive in your ice age neck of the woods, temperature can't be an issue for their habitat. We should import some.

[Pilgrim]

Could there ever be a better country or bluegrass band name than "Fat Possum?" 

[westen44]

Could there ever be a better country or bluegrass band name than "Fat Possum?" 

There is a record label in Oxford, Mississippi called "Fat Possum."

[Pilgrim]

There is a record label in Oxford, Mississippi called "Fat Possum."

And is there any better location for this label than Oxford, MS? I rest my case.

[westen44]

And is there any better location for this label than Oxford. MS? I rest my case.

I wouldn't be able to think of a more ideal location. 

[uwe]

Probably fake.