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Gypsy found the neighbors lost cat last night. Flier was posted on the mail box pedestal about a lost kitty with a phone number at the bottom.
Last night my wife and I were out for a walk with Gypsy and our Grandson about dusk.
Gypsy alerted to a spot behind the mailbox where a storm drain dumps into a retention pond. Shined my flash light and saw the missing cat go into that culvert.
Called the number on the flier and told the owner where their cat was.
They looked last night but didn't see it. They went back out and looked again in the daylight and found their kitty tucked inside that culvert.
The kitty was hiding about 20ft from where they hung the flier.
They texted me about mid morning to let me know they found it where I saw it last night.
Last night my wife and I were out for a walk with Gypsy and our Grandson about dusk.
Gypsy alerted to a spot behind the mailbox where a storm drain dumps into a retention pond. Shined my flash light and saw the missing cat go into that culvert.
Called the number on the flier and told the owner where their cat was.
They looked last night but didn't see it. They went back out and looked again in the daylight and found their kitty tucked inside that culvert.
The kitty was hiding about 20ft from where they hung the flier.
They texted me about mid morning to let me know they found it where I saw it last night.
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On paper, opossums look like good neighbors. Very beneficial animals to have around.
Reality: they can’t hold their liquor so they’re forever showing up in bars, making a big scene, and getting tossed out. People get tired of that crap and don’t want to be around it. If you can keep them off the sauce they’re OK but good luck doing that. Don’t believe it? Proof…
https://youtube.com/shorts/F9WjyiEXD6E?feature=share
Reality: they can’t hold their liquor so they’re forever showing up in bars, making a big scene, and getting tossed out. People get tired of that crap and don’t want to be around it. If you can keep them off the sauce they’re OK but good luck doing that. Don’t believe it? Proof…
https://youtube.com/shorts/F9WjyiEXD6E?feature=share
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HAHA Alaska! Says it all!
Sadly… a true story and one of my own. I grew up very familiar with the term “Play possum”. What floored me was that I didn’t know it’s actually true. Yep waited about 40 years until I meet one in the yard on the top of the fence and I called out to my wife about this weird acting possum.
It might be at that point my wife realized I was a bit dim. “IT’S PLAYING POSSUM - YOU IDIOT!”
Fun fact: Possums in Australia don’t play dead - still rip your face off though…..
HAHA Alaska! Says it all!
Sadly… a true story and one of my own. I grew up very familiar with the term “Play possum”. What floored me was that I didn’t know it’s actually true. Yep waited about 40 years until I meet one in the yard on the top of the fence and I called out to my wife about this weird acting possum.
It might be at that point my wife realized I was a bit dim. “IT’S PLAYING POSSUM - YOU IDIOT!”
Fun fact: Possums in Australia don’t play dead - still rip your face off though…..
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Another fun factoid, the "o" at the beginning of opossum is NOT silent. Hillbillies drop the silent "o" on account that they're mush-heads. The mush-head part is a joke, so don't get your undies all twisted up.
Yeah, but that's true of most of their wildlife, so....
I leave possums alone, but every once in a while, they insist on meeting one of my tires at 55 mph. I try to avoid them, but I'm not running off the road for an animal.
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I don't think they 'dropped' the 'O'.....they just never knew it was there.
All about how you learned to spell when growing up.
I'm down to my last can by the way.
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I don't think they 'dropped' the 'O'.....they just never knew it was there.
All about how you learned to spell when growing up.
I'm down to my last can by the way.
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I'll bet (but not much) that it is delicious.
I ran over one in the middle of the night, the tire was punctured by a bone and it deflated like a blowout. Their rat like bones are hollow except for soft marrow which blows right out. I now make every effort to miss them, even one that is totally flat.
I seriously have relatives that lived in Arkansas (Glenwood, Caddo Gap, Dierks, Smackover) who told of eating ‘possum and said it tastes like pork.
Common and somewhat prized food source in the Old South for generations.
A Possum Crisp and Brown: The Opossum and American Foodways | Folklife Today
This is the third in a series of posts about folklife related to the Virginia Opossum, the only marsupial native to the United States. Find the series here! In 1910, Maggie Pogue Johnson, an African American woman from Virginia, published a dialect poem about classic African American cuisine...
Times and diets have changed.....but it (the possum) was a welcome supplemental food source for some and even a preferred source of meat on certain occasions.
We make jest of it for culinary purposes today.....but in bygone years it was not so.
Flintknapper, …THANK YOU for linking to that article… Very fine reading! (and enjoyed the music as well.)Common and somewhat prized food source in the Old South for generations.
A Possum Crisp and Brown: The Opossum and American Foodways | Folklife Today
This is the third in a series of posts about folklife related to the Virginia Opossum, the only marsupial native to the United States. Find the series here! In 1910, Maggie Pogue Johnson, an African American woman from Virginia, published a dialect poem about classic African American cuisine...blogs.loc.gov
Times and diets have changed.....but it (the possum) was a welcome supplemental food source for some and even a preferred source of meat on certain occasions.
We make jest of it for culinary purposes today.....but in bygone years it was not so.
“you got possum gumbo, nutria gumbo, squirrel gumbo, coon gumbo, rabbit gumbo, deer gumbo, chicken gumbo, shrimp gumbo…that’s about it”—Forrest Gump
^^^^^“you got possum gumbo, nutria gumbo, squirrel gumbo, coon gumbo, rabbit gumbo, deer gumbo, chicken gumbo, shrimp gumbo…that’s about it”
Actually, the above is the reason I don't believe in the existence of 'Bigfoot/Sasquatch' as some folks do.
There is no Cajun Recipe for it....which is proof enough for me.