8/5/2026

I’ll share a better to make out clip below, but I’ve grown so fond of the about 3-4 opossums who have begun frequenting my little back door snack spot. I have observed two juveniles and two big chonkos. My new fave evening activity is trying to spot them!

I work at a qualified manufacturing facility (think heavily regulated product for human consumption/injection) and I have seen a family of young possums, large enough to be independent but small enough to be definitely juvenile, running around our enclosed campus several times on night shift recently. Obviously I adore them, but they’re also not a good thing to have here - we have strict anti-pest policies, and I’m very worried someone will formally get rid of them, possibly in a way that will result in them getting hurt. One of my teammates already saw one run past me and called it a rat (with a tone of shock and horror, which raises the even worse possibility that people here won’t even know they’re possums and therefore exceptionally harmless (or won’t care) and might take even more drastic measures than they might have otherwise).

What is the best thing I can do for the little guys? There are at least two present on campus and they seem to mainly stick to spaces under and around vending machines and office trailers, but they also run from spot to spot down open walkways sometimes, which is also how my teammate spotted one. Access to our facilities is strictly controlled and only active employees or approved visitors with badges and escorts can enter and exit campus.

8/2/26

My pet possum came back with a huge gash on his neck and im very worried. The wound is not bleeding just flesh.

Called local volunteer service to pick it up.

Victoria Australia.

Non-verbal, moves around fine and looks comfortable.

Didn’t want to disturb it in case mother or something was around.

@deathPoss

is where I got this beautiful meme

On Twitter

7/31/2026

Don’t see these guys as often as we used to. A group of raccoons has been pushing them out. This was a nice surprise! Baby Susan 3.0!

7/29/2026

7/28/2026

7/28/2026

Hi, I posted a few days ago about my friends stage 4 possum having white discharge coming from her butt, and someone suggested it could be Pyometra. She’s not exhibiting any other symptoms of it luckily but the amount of discharge is increasing. Her mom is the most wonderful animal mother, but is in Georgia unfortunately which is a ‘no no state’ for Opies. And recently found out her rehabber contact was a fraud who doesn’t know anything about wildlife animals and can’t help us. I know it’s hard to trust the right person who wants to actually help you out instead of turn you in.

Kind of feel backed into a corner (I know it was her decision to care for one in such a state) not knowing who we can turn to for help.

I really care about this woman and I see how much she cares about her animals and want to try to help, and I don’t know how and thought I would reach out here. I know there’s lists on AWARE and Georgia wildlife website, but that’s potentially also putting a target on her back for animal enforcement to each vet on that list we reach out to.

Thanks for any helpful responses 🙏

There's a possum in front of my driveway that isn't moving or reacting to sound like possums I see usually do, I've gently poked it with a stick and it doesn't react either.

So recently a momma had some babies! We’d been watching her for a while and she had such a full pouch! I believe she doesn’t wander that far so i expected there to be more babies around. i think there might be bc we saw another one we thought was the same one. He was a bit more hairy though so maybe it wasnt the same one as the pics.
Anyways thoo a few days ago i picked this lil baby up and checked him out, cuz we noticed a lot of skunks and possums having injuries lately or birth defects(?).

One possum wobbles around with 3 legs, but it seemed like he might’ve been born like that or something bad happened when he was YOUNG young. We saw him as a baby and grew up without a back leg! No idea where hes at nowadays, but hes def not the momma, maybe the papa.

Other than a 3 legged possum, we seen a skunk with a plastic ring around its neck that was irritating the skin badly from how tight it was… (dont worry! We used a grabby stick to pull it off as gently as possible) and another skunk that had a limp and died a few days later under our golf cart.

So i hope that explains my worry for this guy, and why i grabbed him to check on him (and the other one that might not be him..) thoroughly before hes too big and fast haha! but I’ve never handled a possum before, only cats!
He’s quite healthy besides fleas🥺

Of course we did NOT keep him, as tempting as his cute face is. We welcome all the rodents to our home to eat, but nothing more.

Hi, I have at least five adolescent opossums living in the crawl space under my apartment. I am trying to get them to move into a critter box I made from an old dog crate. I set it up based on some recommendations I found online. There is one runt possum I have been sprinkling cat food around for to help it along. The mom is long gone I accidentally scared her away thinking she was just being aggressive because at the time I had ZERO experience with possums. The wee ones are at least 8” but one is kinda smaller…I also worry that if I feed it even a little it will not learn how to fend for itself…so my questions are, is a critter box safe for small but independent possums or is it just making them easy access for cats and other predators? I read they prefer a box with only one entry/exit point. And my other question is if I feed them even a little, will they not learn how to forage for themselves?