Poor Possum..

Totally agree Renee, it was only a couple of months ago when I saw a similar thing when a cat had been hit near my house and at least 8 cars that I saw drove round it and carried on with their journey. The cat was in the middle of the road sat up but hunched over bleeding from its face. Not a pretty sight.

I pulled over as did one other and we gentally moved it to the side of the road. I saw its face and eye swell so bad it looked like a cartoon cat and chunks of blood and skin started to drip from its mouth.

We knocked on a few doors to find out whose it was as it had no collar, turned out to be a stray but an old lady had been feeding it for 8 years. The other lady who pulled over turned out to be someone who ran a shelter for cats and she boxed the poor mite and took it to the vets, never did find out what happened to it but from the visible injuries it should have been put down for the cats sake.

Not nice when things like this happen! 🙁

R:

you know I luv ya. that’s why i’m saying ….. be very careful about handling any kind of animal .. domestic or not …. if you’re not sure they’re dead.

they bite when in such instances.

now that said…. I have two instances. one funny ….. one not so funny.

the one not so funny is i had to dispose of a cat that was run over. no figuring who it belonged to …. but didn’t want any kids seeing it laying dead in the road.

funny one ….

I was once on a date. pulled up to a turn in the road and this girl sees a skunk on side ….. and says….. ah ….. wonder who’s kitty cat that is? she rolls down the window and i barely got us out of there without her getting sprayed right in the face ….. and in fact back of car got it.

I would rather live with animals than people, so with that said, i have a story to tell.

One July 4th, 2007…i was sitting on my porch at around 8pm having my coffee and peace and quite…when i kept hearing a sound i never heard before. I knew it was some kind of animal, and it sounded as though it was in distress, i could not find out where it was coming from, and at 8pm there is still traffic and the noise was drowning out the sound.

So later that night around 1am. i went back outside and it was raining, and i could still hear the sound?…so my oldest son, went out with me , with a flashlight, and we went across the street and started searching the bushes, when low and behold, out came a baby raccoon!

Now this baby had been out there for a few hours crying, so i knew the mother was not around, so i got my cat carrier, and took the baby inside. went to the store and bought a baby bottle, and some kitten formula, and started bottle feeding the baby, he was starving!

next day, my neighbor told me that 6 days earlier, our neighbors had hired a wildlife control man to come and trap a raccoon that was living in his tree, and the man new it was a nursing mother, and told my neighbor that there were probably babies in the tree stump, and it would cost him 45$ per baby, !!!…the neighbor could not afford that, so instead of leaving the mother alone, he took the mother, and left the babies to die!!!!!!!!! of starvation!!!!

Well i had one baby, and two days later, 2 more babies came down the tree, so now i had three babies, and the were the sweetest things, they purr and love you , they are precious.

So i contacted a wild life rescurer and she met me after a week and took all three of my babies….my favorite zorro, i called him..lol…i miss sooo much. well..3 days later, 4 more babies were seen at top to the same tree, so i called the rescurer and they came and climbed the tree, and got allllllll the babies out…all together there were 7…..out of the 7, 4 ended up dieing, from starvation!..a slow , painful death. I cried for ever….how could someone do that to these poor babies??????..i dont understand.

anyway, the local news found out, and i went on tv, with the wildlife people, and we put a complaint in against the wildlife control company, and found out it was not the first time he was accused of this type of animal abuse, and on top of that, the mother was supposed to be humanely , instead this man took her out back and shot her. !

I love animals, and i do know that some don’t , but this is not called for, those babies did not have to die, that man, should of took the mother and the babies, and brought them to the wildlife rescurers or whoever he finds. animal abuse is not called for, and starvation is the worst animal abuse and the sadest way for a baby to die.

Hey BB.

Tell me some more about your friends house in the cliff side. it sounds absolutely wonderful!!

You sounded like you have had some great experiences with wildlife and i love listening. so talk on!

Hope all is well with you, haven’t talked in awhile and i think about ya now and then, and its good to converse with ya.

trip

Hi T:

man you sure pepped me up on day I was feeling not so.

very flattered….. thank you.

okay …. my friends house backside is completely the side of a sloping cliff.

the top third story has a cave … and and encloved area they put up bird wire and kept various birds in it that are found injured on their property which has (in fact) the same river running thru it that runs thru my backyard though they are up river.

They have an absolutely huge aquarium made out of …. I guess they carved it somewhow out of the rock at the bottom story which has kept very large catfish and such alive in it for ….. well a long time ……

between the top and bottom is where the cliff really slopes and she has planted many different flowers and such and its covered in that area with a glass roof to allow sunlight in.

the steps going up in places are made out of rock. other places they are probably man-made rock steps.

They have on more than one occaison found a water-moccasion (poisonous snake) waiting for them in the bath tub.

look before you leap eh?

the father passed away some years ago …. but the mother is still alive to my knowledge …..(haven’t talked to any of them in …. way too long).

although the father was very outdoorsman-like (though a dentist .. and not one you’d care to see if you are wanting a lot of pain medicine lol) …. I strongly suspect the house was built by her insistance.

She’s really nature-minded. She was the one that always found the hurt animals and took them in.

You’d have fallen in love with the boys. all good-looking and women loved them. I lived with one and was best friends with him for years right after high school and loved getting the girls he wasn’t interested in .

The oldest boy was a trapper .. a hunter … and could skin anything. He went on to become to my understanding …. one of the best known brain surgeons in the country and last i heard .. lives in Hawaii though that was years ago.

a very interesting family. living with the baby raccoons was such a treat! being nocturnal myself … I used to play and play with them at night.

but they always turned them back into the wild when they were trained to take care of themselves.

The mother was also an artist. She …. God bless her …. actually coached me into making a …. what I consider a good drawing of a red-tailed hawk she brought to school that had a wing shattered from what was likely an unscrupulous hunter that shot it. she was in process of rehabing it and brought it to school as a model for us to draw. Normally i can’t draw stick men that don’t look like spaggetti.

Oh … there was a spring at their house that had the best water …. and once I road an iceberg down the river that we chopped off an area where the ice was still thick and their were 4 of us on it. it broke into 4 pieces … each of us on our own piece.

it headed for an ice break … an area where trees had fallen across the river and had caught up the big chunks of ice that had taken down the river .. and if not for a third friend who jumped off his piece of ice onto the tree and reached out and grabbed my friend who lived there …. he’d surely have died going under the flow of the river where it went under the ice and trees.

we weren’t very smart sometimes .

thanks for asking

S.

Hey bb
Your welcome
They are great but we know they can turn on you.and I think they are on the tame side but we have to watch them.
They are so cute.