We had a visitor last night . . . I heard a bump and clatter on the back porch, and there he was: the small black possum. Quite probably a descendant of the large black possum who ate here last year and the year before, and grew to be rotund, like a football with legs and a scaly tail. This one, however, is small and tidy, and hungry . . . he had eaten all the cat food in both bowls on the porch floor and was eyeing the one on the refrigerator. (Victoria's; she won't eat on the ground, and she doesn't like to share.) When I opened the screen door he had managed to get up on to the freezer and was contemplating how to scale the side of rhe refrigerator . . .
He beat a hasty retreat when I went back to get the camera, and this was all I managed to catch:
A minute later he peeked around the post, and I got this one: (It's blurry, but he wasn't interested in posing, just eating.)
Usually he eats out on the deck on the other side of the house, but I had selfishly neglected to fill that bowl before it got dark.
Okay. You win. You finally have something I do not want any part of. Why? Because we HAVE a couple of these critters who wander through the yard as tho' they own the place. Ugly, ugly things, they are. Until a couple of years ago when I first spotted the larger of the two, I was under the false impression that a possum was a darling little cartoony type thing, blissfully hanging by its tail. UGH! Not EVEN! And I definitely do not see any improvement in this kitty-food thief! Gives me the willies! Victoria - Ocie - Schmoodge - Rally the troops, Kids! You outnumber this oversized rat! Attack!
Posted by: kai naconi | Tuesday, 26 September 2006 at 09:23 PM
He almost looks like an overgrown rat. I guess they probably are from the same family.
Posted by: shashi | Wednesday, 27 September 2006 at 07:57 AM