There's a big ass opossum on my patio

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Those things are rabies vectors, so be careful around him.

Has your cat had rabies shots lately?

No, but the cat seemed fairly calm around the thing, so I figured they were on good terms. I didn't know they were rabies carriers (well, not to a large extent)...

 

[GregGreen]

I was going to post some shit on mammals and opossums and them being marsupials but instead I found out that opossums are unlikely to carry rabies, likely due to their low body temperature

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: GregGreen
I was going to post some shit on mammals and opossums and them being marsupials but instead I found out that opossums are unlikely to carry rabies, likely due to their low body temperature

Really? Huh, well that's good news then.

 

[Dunbar]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
No, but the cat seemed fairly calm around the thing, so I figured they were on good terms. I didn't know they were rabies carriers (well, not to a large extent)...

Same thing happened to me many years ago, peered out onto the porch to see my cat calmly standing next to a possum eating some leftover food. My cat, who was one tough-town-bully kind of a cat, reaches over and swats the possum on the nose and it runs off.

 

[Parasitic]

Roast the thing!