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BJ (bamaj1) posted an update Friday, Apr 13, 2012, 7:18pm EDT, 12 years ago
All right, this board needs a jumpstart. Here goes. My neighbor is always up to something in her yard. Today she started tearing out a wooden ramp she'd built several years ago leading to a storage shed, and when she pried off a board there was a momma possum looking back at her with a bunch of babies. Animal Control won't respond to incidents involving possums, raccoons, or skunks, and so she asked for some help. She's kind-hearted, so we enlisted the assistance of another neighbor who fashioned a noose out of PVC and electrical cord. Managed to get Momma caught and in a cage, then removed the other boards and lifted out all 8 (counted 'em) babies and got those in a bucket. We just got back from releasing them all on the arsenal near the old rock quarry. They'll be fine there. The babies were all colors and cute as buttons, and they don't yet know how to bite. We just cornered them, lifted them out by their tails and dropped them in the bucket. She wouldn't let me go get the camera so we just zipped them off as quickly as we could. She'd mentioned her little yap-yap dogs would go nuts in that area and she didn't know why.