Do you have an opossum as a friend? No? Why not?
Hi everyone,
Sorry mom and I were a little busy and have not really kept up with you all.
Mom is working and also preparing things for our store to sell, which should be up soon – and it does not only have cat themed items, but all different kinds like jewelry, baby clothes, etc.
She also finished the snuggle blankets, so now she has to get the package together to drop of at the shelter… and Christmas is coming, oh yeah – the tree is up. I like my tree and no, I am not climbing it this year, unless of course there is a lizzy friend hiding in it – then there are no guarantees….
Now as you can see from our headline and the picture – I have a new friend – an opossum. Yes it is a real one and mom is a little apprehensive about it, but dad loves him and sometimes even feeds him some of my food.
He is very nice and quiet and we are not afraid of each other. I leave him alone and he does the same to me. He is really a very good guy. He eats the bugs and snails I do not like and he also eats dead animals and cleans the yard. So he is a very useful guy.
Mom read up about him and is fine with him being with me in the yard. Opossums are not scary animals. They are nocturnal and they are more scared of you. They can also play dead if they feel cornered, just like a lizard. But they don’t loose their tail, like lizards do. They just fall over.
They also carry their babies in a pouch, just like a kangaroo – they are America’s Marsupials.
So if you have them in your yard, don’t chase them away. They are friendly and very useful. You want them in your yard.
So now I am ready to go to sleep. I will post a picture of our beautiful tree in my next post.
Do any of you have an opossum as a friend? If so, let me know and send me pictures.
Sorry, my pictures are a little fuzzy, but it was night and mom could not get a good shot, because my opossum was moving very fast.
A very big miau to everybody and have a great weekend!
fun, well for me at least…. sorry Mr Lizard….
This was my second hunt. But that one did the same thing – after a while he played dead.
If your kitty walks on a leash, go ahead and take her outside – but not by herself. Also keep her away from the door where your Trick-or-Treat kids come for candy. Kids are loud and do crazy things to make themselves scary – but that also scares us. Some of us get so scared that we run out the door and with all the scary kids out there we can get easily lost and possibly hurt or killed.
apartment and sprayed the perimeter with, I hate to say it, insect poison.
cheese plastic cups and put them upside down into the tray. Then she took a piece of cardboard and glued a silicone cutting board on top and attached the two plastic cups on the bottom. She glued two velcro pieces on the bottom of the cups and the inside of the tray and filled the whole thing with water. She placed it on my eating mat and put the food dishes on top.
and then I really want to go out. Now mom and dad do not know what I see, so I start crying and miauing and running from window to window until they get the point. And I do not stop miauing until one of them gets up and takes me out.
You can even take a blind cat outside. Put her on a leash and let her explore. She will be so happy to have grass under her paws, and she can experience all those wonderful smells. Just don’t let her outside on her own. That would be very dangerous for her, because she can get into trouble, or other animals could attack her. But if you take her out she will feel safe and have lots of fun.
Lizards are very active in the evening, so I make sure dad or mom takes me out late. Many times I can already see them from my window and once the door opens I pounce. Then I make sure I can get back in quickly and my harness is released.
But my favorite spot is in the lemongrass pots. There are always lizards to be found. I can just dive into the pots and dig for lizards. I can also hear them from all the way over at
the door. That’s where I usually sit in wait for any movement. And then I run and jump into the pot. I usually come out with a nice catch.
let her.
alligators. But we always had opossums and raccoons. And every spring/summer they have babies. I find them cute, but mom is not so amused by it. Mama animals protect their young at any cost. So our raccoons already attacked one of the residents in the stairway, so not a good situation. cute or not, they stand their ground and will attack when they have children.
puts me in the house. Which does not prevent them to come around to our windows and doors.
then made dad some coffee and decided to clean my water fountain. Oh yeah, I really like that because I drink lots of water and prefer clean drinking water. Mom never leaves the water longer than 3 days in the fountain and then it gets a thorough cleaning.
I used to have only a bowl with water and that got changed once or twice a day. I never really was that excited about that bowl. But after my preference of dry kibble, yes I know, not good for me, mom and dad decided to buy a pet fountain for me. They searched and got a stainless steel Pioneer Drinking Fountain.
store yesterday they got me some kind of saucy treat with tuna and shrimp flakes in lots and lots of 
sauce. Well, it is not as healthy as mom would like, but once in a while I get something as a treat. And that one I am crazy about. Mom gave me a little bit yesterday and I immediately finished it. And then today after cleaning my fountain she put some more in, she had to take it out of the refrigerator first and let it warm, and I gobbled it up. It was just too delicious.
