I was heading out the door on my way to work yesterday when
I spotted something up in the tree near our mailbox: my possum friend! I’ve previously
seen him very casually strolling down the sidewalk in the middle of the day (possums
are nocturnal, so I’m not really sure what’s going on there) and this time he
was harassing the magpies who live in this tree. I’m pretty sure he has moved
into the roof of my apartment building and comes out whenever he wants to
forage for food that people leave behind. Lucky for me I’m on the ground floor
so I don’t hear him scratching around up there, but if it really bothered me I
could actually hire a trap from the city council and lure him in with apples.
The only problem is you have to release them within 50 meters of where you
caught them, and this guy seems to know his way around the neighborhood really
well.
I used to always see possums dead on the road when I was
teaching in North Bend, but those looked like giant rats – the ones here are adorable!
I’m glad Australia has some cute animals to balance out all the cockroaches and
huntsman spiders and sharks.
