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<blockquote data-quote="nerfherder" data-source="post: 592274" data-attributes="member: 15907"><p>Of COURSE I have a story.</p><p></p><p>DEX and I had moved to Davis, CA. We were renting a bedroom from a friend while waiting for our apartment to open.</p><p></p><p>Of course DEX had his computer stuff taking up almost as much room as the rest of us, but at the time I was ok with it. PEC and Kiddo were 8 years younger and thus smaller and better behaved. It was summer.</p><p></p><p>Late one night I heard this clicking sound. I thought it was arcing from one of the computer power supplies - a dangerous sound because it means nasty sparky failure is close at hand. So, in the near dark, without my contacts (being terribly nearsighted) I'm literally nosing around, trying to triangulate in on the clicking, and looking for a flash of arcing, not seeing anything...</p><p></p><p>...and find myself nose to nose with an OPOSSUM, who's just squatting there CLICKING at me.</p><p></p><p>Having heard horror stories about rabies (all untrue, possums are immune, wrong body temp) and having to rescue a possum-savaged cat which was then euthanized (true) I was not in the mood to be charitable toward wildlife.</p><p></p><p>DEX and I eventually got over our well-conditioned fears and managed to scootch the possom (who went very reluctantly) out the screen door. We tried to get him out of the parking lot and he refused.</p><p></p><p>A couple nights later, he climbed over the desktop tower DEX had set against the open sliding door, and came clicking at us again, this time LICKING MY TOES. I am not making this up. By then I'd read enough to know, oh yeah, opossums have 50 teeth in their jaws, the most of any currently living mammal.</p><p></p><p>This time we watched, and it appeared he was blind and crippled - and was looking for "his" bowl of food. Yes, that's right.</p><p></p><p>After doing more reading, I figured out he actually *was* blind and crippled. This is a common outcome of humans finding a "cute" baby possum and feeding it whatever it wants - which is WRONG. They have fairly specific dietary needs. He was an accepted sort of pet at the apartment complex, and while we kept him out (he was hitting on the cats' food which upset them rather a lot) he was a common visitor for quite some time.</p><p></p><p>So yes. A possum licked my toes. (shudder)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nerfherder, post: 592274, member: 15907"] Of COURSE I have a story. DEX and I had moved to Davis, CA. We were renting a bedroom from a friend while waiting for our apartment to open. Of course DEX had his computer stuff taking up almost as much room as the rest of us, but at the time I was ok with it. PEC and Kiddo were 8 years younger and thus smaller and better behaved. It was summer. Late one night I heard this clicking sound. I thought it was arcing from one of the computer power supplies - a dangerous sound because it means nasty sparky failure is close at hand. So, in the near dark, without my contacts (being terribly nearsighted) I'm literally nosing around, trying to triangulate in on the clicking, and looking for a flash of arcing, not seeing anything... ...and find myself nose to nose with an OPOSSUM, who's just squatting there CLICKING at me. Having heard horror stories about rabies (all untrue, possums are immune, wrong body temp) and having to rescue a possum-savaged cat which was then euthanized (true) I was not in the mood to be charitable toward wildlife. DEX and I eventually got over our well-conditioned fears and managed to scootch the possom (who went very reluctantly) out the screen door. We tried to get him out of the parking lot and he refused. A couple nights later, he climbed over the desktop tower DEX had set against the open sliding door, and came clicking at us again, this time LICKING MY TOES. I am not making this up. By then I'd read enough to know, oh yeah, opossums have 50 teeth in their jaws, the most of any currently living mammal. This time we watched, and it appeared he was blind and crippled - and was looking for "his" bowl of food. Yes, that's right. After doing more reading, I figured out he actually *was* blind and crippled. This is a common outcome of humans finding a "cute" baby possum and feeding it whatever it wants - which is WRONG. They have fairly specific dietary needs. He was an accepted sort of pet at the apartment complex, and while we kept him out (he was hitting on the cats' food which upset them rather a lot) he was a common visitor for quite some time. So yes. A possum licked my toes. (shudder) [/QUOTE]
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