Tonight, at dinner, I saw a small creature walk by the door. Thinking we had a skunk right up against the door again had me a bit fearful - no door, no matter how hardy can prevent the smell of skunks. I moved a bit closer and turned on the back deck light. I pretty much screeched out 'It is a RAT!', from which my husband barely reacted. I put forth a few extra words - expecting a reaction that it was pretty pathetic to have RAT at your back door.
Then, I checked out the offender - while I have very little experience with rats, the little sucker didn't at all look like the rat from Ratatouille - it was rather course furred, with neat little front paws, a very white face and a long snout. I decided it was a possum - of which my experience with possums is marginal compared to my relative experience with rats.
Sure, enough - a google search yielded the photo. I guess Toronto has possums - who knew? Jim just opened the door and the cute little fellow took off. I had hoped to see the 'play possum' act but he ran. Somehow, silly as it may seem, I hope for the return of the little possum!
Though, cute - I refuse to deal with garbage tonight. I hope I can delegate to my husband.
3 comments:
That is definitely an opossum! They are cute. If you go near them, they will hiss at you and usually play dead (but not always).
We have a HUGE opossum living in our yard. It hasn't bothered us at all, so we just ignore it. We rarely see actually- just once in awhile when we go out to the patio at night. I actually think they are quite cute too.
Opposums scare the daylights out of me. Once when I was a child I was playing in the yard (a 4 acre, very wooded yard) with my friends and we were running through some trees and there hanging upside down was an opposum and a couple of babies and the momma hissed at me. I screamed bloody murder! There is nothing "cute" about those ugly things in my opinion, lol!
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