Last night Elizabeth came home from a walk in the dark and found a little friend was visiting our porch swing. She wasn't exactly happy to see him at the time. He was just eating a stick of butter he found in our garbage. Later we had a flashlight on him while banging on our door and he didn't budge. To keep him from making a big mess on the porch I decided to get him to move on down the road by shooting his butt with my BB gun. It is an old spring-powered gun so it doesn't even break skin - just stings pretty good. Well, I shot him and he fell over as though dead instantly. Puzzled by this, I was trying to figure out what had happened when the most obvious thing in the world came to me. Opossums play dead! He wasn't going to scamper away like I'd been hoping - he was going to lay there for hours now! An hour later he was still laying there. Finally, later that night he took off without making a mess on the porch. Hopefully they have good memories....
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