Undertoad Friday Jan 4 10:30 AM1/4: Sydney possum treated for burns
Bringing together the Sydney fires and my enjoyment of odd animals, especially on Fridays, here's a possum with cream on its paw pads and nose where it was slightly burned. He looks like he'll be OK!
dave Friday Jan 4 10:37 AMWhat species of possum is that? Or is it just young? Or does it just look funny 'cause it was burned?
warch Friday Jan 4 10:42 AMPoor little gipper...I can hear him squeeking.
A few years back I was awakened in the wee hours by a strange squeeking cry out my window. I checked it out and a tiny baby 'possum had fallen into a small but deep ditch between our apartment and the next. Glowwy eyes! ratty tails! Mom possum was about 8 feet away, clinging to the back fence with another baby on her and crying back. Animal rescue begins- I managed to manuever the wiggly and crying even louder thing onto a broom (hopefully not too many pokes to the face!) and scooped it out of the ditch. It ran right to Mom and up a tree. Oh, Be free little glowy-eyed rat thing....
Joe Friday Jan 4 12:02 PMno way
dude that is not a possum. It looks like one of those other whack marsupial creatures that live down there. A possum (they live in LA and I've seen them in trees) looks like a 40lb rat.
elSicomoro Friday Jan 4 12:07 PMRe: no way
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Originally posted by Joe
dude that is not a possum. It looks like one of those other whack marsupial creatures that live down there.
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Thanks Joe...you just gave me a great laugh.
jeni Friday Jan 4 05:30 PMawwwwwww. what a cutie.
jaguar Friday Jan 4 05:46 PMOi Biatch whatcha think ya doin'
Course is a bloody pussum mate, you bloody yakees wouldn't know whot a bloody pussum looked like if a ripped the corcks off ya 'at.
About once week the power drops here because another one of these jumps onto the substation wiring (the frame is grounded - they're not used to that - instant power condit.
Joe Friday Jan 4 05:51 PMOK upon further analysis the creature in question is indeed a possum
Jesus.
jaguar Friday Jan 4 06:37 PMPlease tell me you do realsie i'm joking...
Joe Friday Jan 4 06:40 PMOh I realsie it all right
and I also realsie that I can recognize a frikkin' marmoset when I see one.
jaguar Friday Jan 4 06:42 PMThat there critter ain't no marmoset, its a possum you darn city slicking........
dave Friday Jan 4 06:46 PMjag - check priv messages
Joe Friday Jan 4 06:52 PMThat's it.
http://www2.msstate.edu/~brb1/pics/possum2.jpg
or
http://www.mimitchi.com/gif/fbear.gif
You be the judge, mate.
Undertoad Friday Jan 4 06:55 PMStop, stop. Joe you're just unfamiliar with the fact that there is an Australian Possum which is a different species than the American Possum, also known as the Ugly-Ass Critter.
Here's the Aussie Possie:
Not quite as ugly as the US version, even if someone has laid a pen on the picture for some reason.
Joe Friday Jan 4 07:01 PMwhoah
You're right!
I Learn something new here every day.
jaguar Friday Jan 4 07:05 PMIts got a very Australian physique - beer gut.
You can almost see the little can of VB in his hand.
Hey - UT stop insulting our wildlife, anyway our bears(koala) are far cuter than yours so nerrrrrrr
Undertoad Friday Jan 4 07:10 PM
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Originally posted by jaguar
Its got a very Australian physique - beer gut.
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The amazing thing about the Aussie Possie, at least the male version, is its ball sack. That was the first thing I noticed on the original picture - whoa, he's gottum hangin' out, doesn't he? Lucky those weren't burned.
jaguar Friday Jan 4 07:13 PMOh man its soooo tempting to say sooo many things.
juju2112 Saturday Jan 5 12:27 AMWhat, that aussies have big balls?
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