jmcquown wrote:
>
> anna maria wrote:

> > anyway, he chased the orrible thing and at a closer look he
> > discovered it was a young opossum. he captured the thing and freed
> > him in the garden outside with great disappointment of my cat. the
> > next day i saw the creature hanging by the tail from a plant outside
> > eating the flowers. looked at me and ... well was not that ugly
> > afterall....

> That's too funny!! Opossums are odd looking creatures, but not really ugly.
> I wouldn't want one in my house, though.

My dog caught an opposum once. Big whoop, the thing just froze in
its tracks, what's to catching it? This maneuver totally confused
my dog as she was not interested in actually catching it, she just
wanted to chase it. Thing didn't move for hours.

nancy