> GUEST wrote:
> Got any?
>
> About ten years ago I had stuffed my bird and was ready to light
the
> oven....with match in hand, I opened the oven and to my horror, saw
> ....a LIVE POSSUM WAS IN MY OVEN.
>
> I slammed the door shut, shaking with surprise and terror. In the
brief
> half second I looked, what I saw was the HUGE fat rump and tail of
what
> appeared to me to be the World's Largest Possum.
>
> ...and guests coming in just a few hours.....
>
> I called Animal Control and naturally, since it was a Holiday, got
a
> recording!
> ...but the recording said that IF I had an emergency to call___
____.
>
> Well, I dont know about you...but to me, yes, a LIVE possum taking
a
> nap in my oven did constitute a bit of an emergency.
>
> An hour later a tiny little 20 year old gal showed up...and my
heart
> fell. HOW could this small female DEAL with the huge, evil,
probably
> RABID possum???
>
> She had with her a kind of pole thingy, with a flexible noose
attached.
> Gingerly, she eased the oven door open....
>
> and in two seconds had retreived the huge evil probably RABID
possum,
> only....
>
> the poor little thing was maybe three months old, small and
> terrified...only looking for a warm dark place to hide.
>
> I was mortified. I couldnt believe my eyes had SO failed me. This
poor
> tiny little guy was nothing LIKE what I THOUGHT I had seen. I
would
> have sworn in a court of law he MUST have weighed upwards of thirty
> pounds....yet here, dangling (but unharmed!) from the noose was a
little
> gray fuzzy baby weighing maybe three pounds, if that.
>
> She put him into a cage in her truck and I asked what would happen
to
> the little guy. She said she would drop it off at the park.
>
> LOL!
>
> On inspection, I found a little pile of dry cat food in one corner
of
> the oven....evidently he had been staying in there for a
while....must
> have crept out at night and helped himself to a little cat food,
> carrying some back to the oven forr a little snack, later.
>
>
> LassChance

How did it get in there?
Well only obvious explanation is the door was open, but i know of
very few people that leave their oven doors open...very funny reading
indeed thugh!!!