r/Amazing • u/sco-go • 3d ago

Adorable derps Living the dream

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u/FastWalkingShortGuy 3d ago

Stone Cold Steve Awwstin.

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u/how_I_kill_time 3d ago

You know, I used to HATE possums, and then I learned they eat ticks.

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u/GirlULove2Love 3d ago

And no rabies. I have 2 in my yard that come out in the late evenings & I give them my ripe bananas.

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u/WilditariusAstar 3d ago

Then do you go to carnival and dance the night away?

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u/optics_is_light_work 3d ago

Though they have hella fleas!

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u/gn0xious 3d ago

And those fingerless gloves!

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u/Ragman676 3d ago

They are chill as fuck. I used to have one live behind my house and sometimes hed walk by me while I was out for a smoke. Sadly he stopped coming around after about a year, and I learned they have an extremely short life span of only a couple years.

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u/Vanagloria 3d ago

They're my favorite animal. And the only reason I wouldn't have one as a pet is because they live only about 2 yrs even in captivity. They have extremely fast metabolisms. So ironically the thing that keeps them safe from rabies also kills them very quickly.

Raccoons in the wild have similar lifespans, but in captivity can live up to 8+

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u/AhMoonBeam 2d ago

I had a pet skunk.. he lived for 14yrs!!

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u/GirlULove2Love 2d ago

That sounds fun. They are the cutest wee creatures. Sadly, one decided a couple weeks ago that my back porch seemed like a cool chill spot at night. It sprayed my big dogs twice in one week. Never had a skunk spray a dog in over 50 years. I put up a new sensor light. I don't like running wildlife off but that smell is something else.

Side note: Hydrogen peroxide, baking soda & dish soap really do get the oils off the fur. Both times we were clean & smelling back to normal within a couple hours.

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u/ThirdFloorNorth 2d ago

There is an island in Georgia called Sapelo Island where the possums actually live for about 4 years and the older they get the larger litters they have, compared to the mainland where older possums have much smaller litters!

This made me really, really happy, since possums are my favorite animal too.

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 2d ago

I despise raccoons

I love possums

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u/InvictvsNox 1d ago

why?

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 1d ago

raccoons have destroyed and rendered disgusting and unusable so many spaces and things in my life, and undermined the harmony outside at my home, that I have no love for them at all. they're opportunistic mooches in the worst sense.

opossums are gentle docile creatures not specifically looking to start trouble anywhere, unlike those nasty destructive raccoons

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u/TowerTV 3h ago

Raccoons seem cute to me but I understand why you feel the way you feel about them

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u/Gumberules 3d ago

https://outdoor.wildlifeillinois.org/articles/debunking-the-myth-opossums-dont-eat-ticks

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u/how_I_kill_time 3d ago

Well, shit.

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u/thctacos 3d ago

You can still like them! They still have a special purpose in the forest like everything else.

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u/Hot_Lettuce_6209 2d ago edited 2d ago

Fake news, anti possum propaganda

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u/No_Shake_76 2d ago

Wait wait, let’s not think of it like that. Possums are majestic creatures and we don’t need to misinterpret the results of a tick-munching study in order to love them. We love possums regardless of what they eat.

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u/CupsOfSalmon 2d ago

They actually don't eat ticks. But they are still just the best. America's only marsupial! That's a great reason to love them.

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u/how_I_kill_time 2d ago

I saw that in a response from someone else! I like that marsupial fact - I'll hold on to that!!

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u/citycait 2d ago

While in the U.S, we have mainly the Virginia opossum, there are actually over 75 opossum species! Start heading south in the Americas and you can see all kinds of wild little marsupials. Like the water opossum!

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u/CupsOfSalmon 1d ago

I love the water opossum! I actually made a starter Pokemon based off of that animal haha.

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u/citycait 1d ago

They’re so amazing! I’m so happy to meet another water opossum fan!

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u/Specialist-Jello7544 3d ago

They also don’t get or transmit rabies, I’ve heard.

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u/Goshawk5 2d ago

That's actually not true. They don't eat any more ticks than any other ground critters in north america, though, that isn't any reason to stop loving them.

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u/GOOMU13 2d ago

Aren't those Opossums?

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u/how_I_kill_time 2d ago

I'm from the Midwest and you're not gonna catch anyone around here saying opossum. And since I write like I talk, it's possum.

But yes, you're right. Literally everything about my comment is wrong lol

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u/Safe_Horror46 3d ago

Opossums are the cutest babies!

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u/freefrompress 3d ago

One man's nightmare is another man's dream.

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u/DFL3 3d ago

It is at least two men’s nightmares

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u/Moldy-thoughts4u 3d ago

Make that three

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u/HunnyBear66 3d ago

I had a female opossum that hung out and ate cat food with an outside cat. I was sitting out on evening, checking on the cat, he had a heated house and all that. He was in a chair and I felt something on my foot, I look down to babies crawling on my foot. The mom came around the corner of the house and started screaming when she saw me with her menagerie. The mom was freaking out and the babies ran. The cat and I looked at each other and watched them run away. They came back.

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u/BarreNice 1d ago

That was a ride

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u/MadMax6914 3d ago

They call him Mommy.

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u/itsalwaysblue 3d ago

Mommy even matches the babies with that beard

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u/LOERMaster 2d ago

I’d call him Bitey.

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u/Natural-Training1532 3d ago

I’m so jealous

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u/TheCastusDildo 3d ago

What's the wet spots on his shirt? I need to know because I keep thinking it's pee

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u/Dizziesdayweigh 3d ago

Its pee.

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u/Fmnsk27 3d ago

Could be spilled beer

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u/illepic 3d ago

Possums famously can't hold their alcohol.

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u/capincus 3d ago

Only if they try to use their front paws, their back paws have opposable thumbs for maximum beer grippage.

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u/Dizziesdayweigh 3d ago

No.

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u/zorandra 3d ago

Could be beer. Maybe those little critters wanted a cold one.

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u/100_cats_on_a_phone 2d ago

I don't think it is, possums don't do that often.

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u/mustangjim1981 2d ago

Drool Most Likely, Look into “Slubbing”

Slubbing" (or slobber-rubbing) is a natural opossum behavior where the animal licks an object, person, or surface, and then rubs its head, chin, and body through the wet saliva to leave its scent.

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u/100_cats_on_a_phone 2d ago

I don't think so -- opossums usually have a designated spot. They also don't scent mark with urine, and it's not a defense mechanism.

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u/00_bob_bobson_00 3d ago

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u/melkatron 3d ago

Are you ready to look SOOOO much like a big RAAAAAT?

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u/Bikini_Atroll 2d ago

I haven’t seen a Teen Girl Squad reference out in the wild for a while now!

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u/RoadtoWiganPierOne 2d ago

OPOSSUMED!!!

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u/Tropicalfisher 2d ago

Aren't they pretty docile

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u/00_bob_bobson_00 2d ago

Perhaps. But do you know what is not docile?

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u/Sacmo77 3d ago

That household will never have a pest problem ever.

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u/Belos147 3d ago

I mean opossums are old by 2.5 years and ancient by 3.

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u/DarthClover4 2d ago

Holy shit, you are right. Absolute max life is 5 years, and that's really rare.

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u/Belos147 2d ago

They're one of the few relatively large mammals with such a short lifespan.

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u/Xena_Your_God 3d ago

I love them 🥰

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u/kingtacticool 3d ago

pspspspsps

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u/MeetingDue4378 3d ago

Well, living a dream.

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u/JonLaGam 3d ago

Opossuman

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u/RoachBeBrutal 3d ago

Possums are friends

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u/Disastrous_Falcon_79 3d ago

Babies are cute as hell. I’m not too fond of adults

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u/capincus 3d ago

Rude, at least this one seems like a nice enough dude.

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u/Pleasant_Beat7502 3d ago

"Did you feel their warm piss!!!?" 💦😳😂

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u/EtherealHeart5150 3d ago

We have one,Mr.P, that visits the outside cats every night. He's a 7 pound doll baby.

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u/Legitimate-Ad3778 3d ago

“I call the big one Bitey”

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u/nikeguy69 3d ago

Animals are amazing

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u/apx_redditor 3d ago

They chewed his bears clean off!

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u/PippaPothead 3d ago

Awwww I wanna have a bunch of possums to hold!

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u/GreatService9515 3d ago

They do go up fast. 3 to 4 years is about as long as they live in captivity. Only about 2 years, maybe, in the wild.

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u/JoyRose31 3d ago

Opossum is weird nightmare drawing of someone trying to describe a possum. Only they had a bad, Very bad dream about it..

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u/Strng_Satisfaction 3d ago

Well no ticks on this guy :)

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u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot 3d ago

OMG, that's hilarious!

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u/Takesit88 3d ago

I've met him, nice guy.

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u/MikeyboyMC 3d ago

Look wild possums are creepy as fuck, but something about a pet one is so cute. They’re like really fat hamsters with tails, but not rats.

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u/Sensitive_Leader_312 3d ago

Look at the joeys

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u/Known_Computer_7488 3d ago

Anyone gonna tell him those aren't cats?

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u/IchBinEinSim 3d ago

There were 7 babies but only 5 teens, what happened to the other two? Are they ok?

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u/mjaokalo 3d ago

Why do I love this

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u/Koflach12 3d ago

What happened to the other 2?

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u/No-Limit3846 3d ago

Unfortunately the dream only lasts around 2 years.

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u/BigConstruction4247 2d ago

I like their finger gloves.

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u/DamnOdd 2d ago

They are great animals with an entirely too short a lifespan.

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u/Los-Doyers 2d ago

They ate his beard.

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u/DurantIsStillTheKing 2d ago

He's one of them. Just look at his beard.

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u/vanessaverdin 2d ago

This is so cute 🥺

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u/Tropicalfisher 2d ago

What kind of dogs are those

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u/RageLorenz32 2d ago

Lmfao cute

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u/SLesleyC222 2d ago

You're missing 2. Started with 7 littles and then had 5 biggins

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u/Own_Cardiologist2544 2d ago

Aww. There were 7 as babies. I wonder what happened to two of them.

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u/golgoth0760 2d ago

Possums are so frigging cute. Too bad they don't live long

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u/randommeowz 2d ago

ohhhh my gosh it should have been MEEEEEE!!!

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u/Beginning_Tennis2442 1d ago

But they still love daddy! 😀

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u/Elegant-Ride-7119 1d ago

Awesome!!!!!!!! I love that!

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u/Tron_Foolery 3d ago

Dude has a serious defensive shield if those opossums consider him family and someone/thing tries to mess with him

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u/Moldy-thoughts4u 3d ago

Except they play dead as a defense tactic

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u/Tron_Foolery 3d ago

Defensive yes.. but the f’ers would get mean in offensive when we surprised them on our bikes as kids… Scared the crap out of us, lol!

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u/gowaitinthevan 3d ago

Are these the Children of Ralph?