Nancy Young wrote:
> 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

Hence the phrase, "playing 'possum"

Jill