Poss(um)-ibilities

My San Diego family has been having some nocturnal visitors.  These visitors show their presence by leaving holes dug under the fence.  It was a possibility that the culprits were skunks - mostly due to "eau de Polecat" wafting in the morning air on occasion.

So they hired a guy to come and live-trap them - whatever they were - and relocate them to someplace else.  Cat food is the bait of choice - an irresistible delicacy to most critters who are enticed into said traps.

To their surprise - the midnight diggers were possums.  This is #5 - who was released in the same spot as numbers 1 thru 4 - several miles away by the banks of the San Diego River.

We figure that if they find their way back to the house - jonesing for more cat food - it probably won't be before 2015.

We expect...and hope...that they're having some happy family reunions right about now.

Possums have "smiles" that look rather vicious.  However - the Possum Police insisted that they are really quite friendly and docile creatures.

To prove his point - he stuck his finger in the cage and proceeded to touch the possum's toothy grin.  His finger remained unscathed - still attached to his hand.

Nobody wanted to challenge his theory.  We're all aware that there's a first time for everything.  We prefer our fingers intact - thank you very much.

But now we all have a new appreciation for that cute possum smile.

I think RS has captured the 'essence of possum' quite nicely.

I think he's been practicing...