I found a dead body....

[Magneto]

So last Saturday morning I opened my front door and saw on my sidewalk right in front of me a deceased juvenile possum. It didn't have a mark on it, so the neighbors dogs didn't get ahold of it. I didn't get a picture of it which I should have. I have lived in my house for 21 years and only found two other deceased animals, a squirrel and a goldfinch. It just struck me as odd.

 

[Mgderf]

Hard telling, but I wouldn't be overly concerned.
One "nice" thing about marsupials is that they can't get rabies.

 

[***Ironhead***]

Didn’t see her did you?

 

[Michigan Slim]

Owl maybe dropped it there. I saw one take a rabbit and drop it in the neighbors yard. One hole in it from a talon. Looked good overall.

 

[BigMoose]

I had one of those get down in my gutter downspout!

Found it dead in there one spring when I was trying to figure out what was stopping the water up.

 

[KittySlayer]

Are you sure it is dead and not playing “possum”?

 

[Michigan Slim]

Are you sure it is dead and not playing “possum”?

Good point.

 

[BigRed]

Hard telling, but I wouldn't be overly concerned.
One "nice" thing about marsupials is that they can't get rabies.

I have never heard this. Is this true?

 

[Codeman4110]

Lol, the title of this post is reminiscent of clickbait. They also eat ticks I believe.

 

[Magneto]

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Didn’t see her did you?

No granny didn't stop by and get it. It would have saved me the trouble of bagging it up.

 

[Mgderf]

I have never heard this. Is this true?

100% true

 

[bwframe]

I found a very big one dead in a basement window well years back. No idea why it died.



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[cg21]

Lol, the title of this post is reminiscent of clickbait. They also eat ticks I believe.

If you look at the studies they did with this tick “Eating” theory it was a very biased study seems they were on the opossum payroll.

 

[Codeman4110]

If you look at the studies they did with this tick “Eating” theory it was a very biased study seems they were on the opossum payroll.

I can't say I have ever witnessed an opossum eating a tick, I admit I was regurgitating heresay. I still imagine that theory to be more valid than a secret opossum economy in which they bribe for a good name. I mean, what even is opossum currency? Can't be ticks as they would clearly eat them.

 

[cg21]

Supposedly it was something like they only dropped ticks into the cage of starving opossum….. so it was out of necessity not a natural occurrence.

 

[Codeman4110]

Sounds similar to what I heard they did with bats and mosquitos.

 

[JimH]

Lol, the title of this post is reminiscent of clickbait. They also eat ticks I believe.

They also raid turkey nest- just imagine how many ticks a whole litter of turkeys would eat if they survived.....

 

[jerrob]

This derailed, late term abortion of a thread is exactly why I'm proud to be a member here.
Just feeding' my ADHD.

 

[Butch627]

OP must lead a pretty sheltered life to be so shaken by a dead animal. You do know that they all die.....right?

 

[MinuteManMike]

If you look at the studies they did with this tick “Eating” theory it was a very biased study seems they were on the opossum payroll.

How do possums get money to pay people off?