Ok Ok, I know i have made fun......but these guys are cute

[Lethe]

and i take back the "oversized rat" comment

[Deja Q]

1. Awww, aren't they cute? They need covering...

[momophile]

2. this is just the sort of thing

that I missed from you. don't ever leave again.

[bertha katzenengel]

3. Pokey! Possums are named "Pokey." Or "Simon."

When Mrs. V. was a child she called them "possles."

They come to our deck looking for food. They're so cute.

[Lethe]

4. yes they are cute!

cmon!

they arent cats or puppies but they are still cute!

[MoseyWalker]

5. a pesky possum once ripped half my cats face off

they have some serious claws.

[mcctatas]

6. A baby possum fell into a bucket in my garage, so we released it

in the brushy area behind our house, pretty far away, and now the little bastard is not so little anymore and he keeps eating our trash. Not so friggin cute now, but in theory, I agree, kinda cute.

[Lethe]

8. as cute as......

the tamandua????!!!!!

[mcctatas]

9. Well at least he'd work for food instead of tearing through my

trash! That fact alone makes him (or her) the cuter critter! :toast:

[fizzgig]

7. i call the big one "bitey"

[ghostsofgiants]

10. kagehime wins the thread.

[cwydro]

11. Awww

I love possums. Even the name is fun. Possum. Who thought that up?

[Glorfindel]

13. The Algonquin Native Americans, apparently...

from Dictionary.com (unabridged):
Origin: 1600–10, American; < Virginia Algonquian (E sp.) opassom, opussum, aposoum - equiv. to Proto-Algonquian *wa˙p- white + *-aʔθemw- dog

[cwydro]

14. Well thank you for that.

I'm always interested in words.:hi:

[wildhorses]

12. a passel of possums...

cute!