| Yorkiemom1 | 10-17-2015 07:42 AM |
Coming back from the barn one night years ago, I found a possum that had been hit by a car....and its mate was standing there beside it....we stopped to move the dead one from the road because the mate was so distressed, and OMG! there were babies in the pouch of the dead momma! My husband pulled 13 tiny baby possums from her pouch and long story short, I hand raised those stinky tiny little souls.....tube fed them until they could eat from a plate....then I had to teach them all the things possums do! I had to teach them how to break eggs open and eat the contents, root for grub worms, eat banannas from the tree we had in the back yard, eat all the other things possums eat, they used to follow me around like they would their momma....the zoo told me I should have killed them all, they were considered a nuisance....I took them out to my acreage in the country and turned them all loose when they were 6 months old......they all tried to follow me back to the car.....took a whole bunch of time and teaching to get them to remain behind on the property.....I hope they all did well, there were tons of wild berries and stuff for them to eat...a ranch next door that had chickens..... but I try not to think about it too much because I worry about them! | 