Last night when I was taking Trigger and Dooley outside one last time before bed I discovered a dead juvenile opossum in our back yard. It's death was confirmed because it was stiff and smelly. I wonder how it got there? Could Trigger and/or Dooley be killers? Say it ain't so; not my children! But, someone had clearly gnawed on its neck. I wish we lived next door to my parents so I could call my dad and have him remove the opossum from our backyard, but since my father was 75 miles away and it was late (and smelly) I had to remove the dead opossum all by my grown self.
Rest in peace opossum and in your next life please don't come to our back yard. It's a kill zone.
.Actually, opposums are very good at playing dead. Read up on it.
ReplyDeleteI wish that were the case Joseph (the opossum was playing possum) but unfortunately the odor and maggots and blood confirmed the death.
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