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Watch an adorable baby opossum enjoying a snack from the comfort of mama's pouch

I love a double-decker pouched animal duo, like this mama and baby potoroo pair we featured a few years ago chowing down on ...
Star Tribune

Baby opossums are emerging from their mothers’ pouches

Now’s the time of year people might glimpse an opossum along roadsides, scurrying past campsites or through backyards searching for food and possibly carrying a young brood of babies. These ...
WTSP

Pinellas County deputy awarded by PETA for rescuing baby opossums from mother's pouch

PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) sent an award to a Pinellas County deputy on Monday for his quick thinking that saved the lives of seven baby opossums whose ...
AOL

This Mother Possum Carried 13 Babies and Taught Them How to Survive

Mothers have the hardest job in the world. Caring for babies is full-time work, and this labor extends to the animal world. In this Instagram video, a mother possum is seen carrying upwards of a dozen ...
Post and Courier

Opossum petition delivered to solicitor's office

Animal rights activists hand delivered to the solicitor's office this week a petition, with 25,000 signatures, urging felony charges in a local animal abuse case. Beth Sparks and Connie Welborn Reese, ...