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[jlburgess]

Oh crap, another poop thread?  Can we go back to arguing about the best 10W/60? 

[rodekyll]

Oh crap, another poop thread?  Can we go back to arguing about the best 10W/60? 

Are you implying that there's a difference?

[normzone]

I can eliminate opossum.  We had one for a couple years, and it what it produced looked very much like what a human produces, and not much smaller. 

I see your " not much smaller ", and raise you a " Little Potato Head ". You should fold while you can.

Little Po-Po, as he is now referred to, moved into our apartment one summer, while he/she/it was about the size of a kitten .... or a rat, depending on your perspective.

There was a lot of drinking going on at that time, so it took us a while to figure this out. We leave the front door and the sliding patio window open a lot - unlike you frontier dwellers, the wilderness is accessed differently here in the wilds of Escondido.

I noticed a little sound behind the couch late one night, but didn't say anything because I wasn't up for a pursuit/capture that evening. A couple of weeks later I woke to what I pronounced as " there's something outside the window ". Despite what [Chuck in Indiana] says, I'm a light sleeper. After a few minutes, I said " No, it's in the corner by the curtains ". Sure enough, it was.

My wife said " Do we have to chase it around ? " While keeping an eye on it (under the bed now) I replied " No, not if you'll go get one of my spearguns off the wall ". She elected to instead follow my instructions and build me a snake snare from a broom handle and some Guzzi wire (Guzzi content) - I love that woman, remind me to tell you sometime about how i talked her through filling, closing and tapping a keg of homebrew on the phone while I was at work.

 He was wise to that game, and I wound up moving furniture around until he went up a curtain and I wrapped him in a towel.

About a half hour later, I had a baby possum wrapped in a towel. His little poops were like rabbit pellets, behind the couch and in the spare bedroom/garage. Probably pretty slim pickings for him.

[Triple Jim]

No idea why he pooped like a rabbit, but you can find all the photos of normal 'possum poop you (don't) want to see, with Google images.  I'm surprised you found the poop where you did, because their instinct is to poop in shallow water if they can find some.  All you need to do to catch a 'possum is pick it up gently.  Use leather gloves if you're concerned.   The usual sequence is it'll open its mouth and show its many needle-like teeth to scare you, but not actually bite, and then if you keep reaching for it, it'll "play 'possum" and fake falling asleep.  At least this is all true for the ones in the back woods of NC.

When we had the pet 'possum, it quickly got used to us enough to stop showing its teeth when approached, but it took a while for it to stop falling asleep when touched.  Eventually it would just hang out with us in the evenings when we watched TV.

[steven c]

 Should I tell you about the dead squirrel in the toilet?

[normzone]

" their instinct is to poop in shallow water if they can find some "

This is Southern California. Our possums don't even know that shallow water exists.

[Chuck in Indiana]

Here's some SoCal shallow water. They don't do lakes very well..  if you look closely, much of it is about a foot deep.
Edit for pitcher..
2017-10-15_01-46-02 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr

[Guzzi Gal]

My aunt & uncle had 2 'possum siblings as pets.  Mom had been hit by a car, and the babies were sitting atop her, eyes aglow in the headlights.  So of course, you pull over, scoop up these two little balls of bitting, hissing cuteness, and bring them home!  Mister, and Missy grew to be quite the household characters, and were happy to burrow behind your back for a nap.  As long as you kept your movements slow, they were happy, albeit not to smart, companions.  If they felt threatened, they'd cower, hiss, and stare until you slowed down, but they never bit.   

[Murray]

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