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How cute- I usually see possums just before they flop under the tire of my truck (sorry I try to avoid em- and I feel bad when I can't- but I swear they are one of gods dumber creatures)

Dumb is an understatement when describing those creatures!!!

I took a spray bottle of water & was squirting it in the face to try to get it to leave. Darn thing just sat there & took it. I really felt bad afterwards, but I couldn't figure how else to get it to leave without hurting it.

Haven't seen it since, so maybe it learned something ( but somehow I doubt it ).

Pebbles

I am familiar with the ugly tails of those critters. When I was a kid my Shepard used to kill about one a week, used to grab 'em by the tail and throw 'em over the fence back to the oil fields. Not my favorite animal.

My, what pretty blue eyes she has. The rest of her is UGLY!

O'possum. Vhat a critter. They can really be something when they are defending themselves.
I know you feel bad after spraying it, but, what could you really do? I doubt you would feel any better if you shot it, or knew it was enjoying the comfort of your home.
Of all the things you could have done, spraying it was probably the best unless it commanded more. Suprises like that are fun though, looking back.
I have never heard of one being house broken. Not like a skunk, or praire dog. You did the right thing, and I appreciate the photo. Kinda cool.

Yeah, a surprise it was indeed! Especially since that box sits just outside the back door on the porch not even 3 ft away from the door opening. Thought it was gonna make a run for inside the house, like the cats do - just barely cracked open the door enuff to take a pic.

Pebbles

cute it may be but it has a nice set of cat like teeth, best thing to do is avoid them...unless you want to eat them. My dad use to hunt and eat them. Actually he would trap them, feed them cornbread and buttermilk for several days to clean them out, then he would kill and eat them. We make fun of him now for it, so laugh all you want.

armidillos are right up there with possums on getting in the road and such. maybe an armidillo is a possum with a shell.

kim

Sometimes - when I look at the stars, and wonder what the hell is going on on earth, I get confused.

I mean - REALLY CONFUSED.

Im not talking about "how good a payrise is" or "the politicians have done this or that" - I mean about why we are here and what is the universe all about.

Then - sometimes - I can see a picture of a creature like this (or look at a creature itself) - and just a bit - I mean just a tiny bit - things fall into place when I look at the blackness of its pupils and the awareness it has of its surroundings.

When I look a bit harder, I realize that humans are such a tiny bit more than the Possum (for instance) in the absolute sheer and awesome size of twisting spacetime, that they may aswell be **us**.

What Im trying to say is that the difference between us and the Possum - on this earth - seems quite large. In cosmological terms though - we are the same as the Possum.

If we remember relativity (soz if Im waffling) we will note that (for example) the speed of an object is measured relative to the observer (except for light).

I think I can safely say (pause) that an observer from another planet **may** see very little difference between humans and the possum. Its only from our position that we see the Possum as very different from ourselves.

An observer from another planet may see humans and possums as the same thing - that is - "something crawling around on a rock".

I think its a stormer of a creature.

KD - yes - we are alike.

An observer who is as big as the universe will see the possum and the human as equals.

He/she (the observer of the universe and entire cosmos) - probably wouldnt even notice life on earth - nevermind a difference between different forms of life on earth.

Its a tough one to understand - a pair of blinking eyes as big as spacetime itself looking at our current explosion (the big bang) material - simply wouldnt even notice us.

We are - we are indeed - very very very very very small.



Just like that possum - just the same as him, so I say look after him - dont shoot him. Give him a brew then let him go and do as he will on this little tiny rock he finds himself on.