I'm up rather late tonight, and I noticed that something was setting off the motion activated lighting in the backyard. So, I looked out the window and, joy of joys, there is a possum back there, wandering all about the yard like some sort of fur-covered robotic vacuum device.
I did a Google search on "possum as pet" and quite a few hits came back. Well, about 372,000. One of the results on the first page was a message board.
If you've ever seen a possum close up, or even out the window, you can see that they are disgusting. Not that I would ever hurt one, but yuck. Razor sharp teeth, pinkish eyes, and that naked rat-type tail. They eat snakes!
Anyway, someone on the possum message board was surprised that the possum they ordered from a "reputable breeder" was not "cute and cuddly". And it drooled a lot. And the person wondered if the animal needed to go to the vet due to the drooling.
If you are going to take on exotic/wild animal ownership, maybe you ought to do some reading first. I would advise that route, rather than mail-ordering an animal from a breeder and then being surprised that the wild animal is not "cute and cuddly" and that it exhibited a fear-response (drooling) all the time in its new home.
Furthering my impression that people who may buy a possum may be weak in the head, someone replied to feed the possum pizza. That sounds good to me, take a wild marsupial that has complex needs, and feed it Italian food.
'Nite!
