Today (October 18th) is National Opossum Day. How will you celebrate?

[Darren_Garrison]

@Stratocaster

Wow, they really do that, huh?

Absolutely they do. I’ve seen it happen three times. Twice when scared by cats, once scared by me.

Came face-to-face with a possum in my garage; now I got questions

In my (extensive) experience, cats are indifferent to possums. A strange cat or one who has been “voted off the island” shows up? There’s likely to be a fight happening. A possum of any size shows up? It gets a glance, then gets ignored. I have inside/outside cats–and possums always manage to come in with them, more times than I care to count. When I catch one (by the tail–they are slow-moving and not very bright) I would occasionally try to annoy them into “playing possum”, but they never did …