a baby possum literally just fell from my roof. my cat would no doubt kill it if i let it loose, but i couldn’t do that anyway bc it’s way too young, so smol it fits in my hand. i’m sure it couldn’t go on by itself:
so my question basically is
how do i raise a baby possum
so basically ANOTHER ONE came crashing down from the roof
[singing] IT’S RAINING POSSUMS, HALLELUJAH
our guess is their mom was killed and after waiting 84 years they both decided to jump ship :(((((((((((((((
luckily they jumped ship onto the arms of someone who will protect them at all costs.
one of them is super shy and suspicious of my intentions and the other is like ah mah gah!!!!! waTER!!!!!!!!! MASHED BANANAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VKUSNO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so naturally i named them yuri and victor respectively.
u already got a beauty shot of yuri so now have victor:
third (and last) update!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so after keeping yuri and victor fed & hydrated for a day, we decided to let victor go. it was clearly antsy in captivity and had shown signs it could go on by itself, plus it’s over 7cm from head to tail which is the size said to be appropriate to handle itself in Nature™.
we gently put it on a branch of one of the trees in my house (literally my place is like a mini ranch) and watched it climb up and even eat one of the bugs there. we were sure it would Survive™.
yuri, on the other hand, was smoller and way too inexperienced, plus we feared he got hurt in the fall, so i kept him,,,,,,,,,,,until,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, twO huge-ass possums came out in the plain light of day (which is HELLA UNUSUAL for them, they are nocturnal animals) and so i knew:::::::::::::::::: THEY ARE FINDING NEMO THIS BITCH.
i quickly collected yuri, ran back to where they were and put it on a branch….and then the most heart-warming thing happened………………yuRI SPOKE ITS FIRST WORDS.
which means it just started screeching very very loudly. his Ma heard its cries and fuccing came for it is2g ;____________; she like used her two lil handsies as a bridge and it fuccing climbed on her head…………..i was feeling Alive………………………………………….i was so riveted it didn’t even occur to me to go get my phone and take pictures
anyway, i was still conflicted about victor. they were clearly in the same nest and if that was their mom, i kept wondering if she’d found victor as well or if they’d be lost to each other forever. i went back to where we last saw it just to make sure it was gone. i looked up at the branches and saw no sign of it, then looked down and the fuccing cloth that we’d wrapped it with and i had disposed of after we let it go was MOVING………..I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT FUCCING CAME BACK AND MADE A BURRITO OF ITSELF…………………CAN YOU BELIEVE I NAMED IT THIS APPROPRIATELY……………………….IT IS LITERALLY THE POSSUM VERSION OF VICTOR NIKIFOROV………………….SO EXTRA……………………………………………………..
i grabbed it and teared ass to where i’d last seen the mama possum, gladly she was still around. i placed victor nearby and it swiftly climbed on her. i was confused bc i couldn’t see yuri anymore but then the Moma Possum moved and i saw the cutest fuccing thing, YURI WAS IN HER POUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
end of story: the whole gang is back together. nature my dudes, nature.
Honorable Mention™: every time i said “we” in this post i meant me and my friend, Tabby. we were there when Yuri and Victor bungee jumped without a cord and cared for them together. i don’t think i couldn’ve done it without her. she’s sleeping right now and she’ll be pissed when i tell her she missed The Great Reunion, but i didn’t want to wake her up bc she’s taking a plane back home today and needs her rest. i hope she’ll forgive me after reading this post. i love u, Pink Princess, and as proof of my love i’ll end this post quoting you:
“What if they were just doing parkour and we kidnapped them?”
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