I’m surprised this Joey ran away so fast and far from Mom and I hope she retrieved it. I went out with a flashlight and looked in all the bushes but there were too many hiding places. I didn’t hear a faint squeal so I hope mom got it.
This little girl didn’t have thinning or balding hair on her back until recently. Will she be ok? I can’t do much for her. I feed her and the others scrambled eggs with the shell and some fruit and sometimes yogurt unsweetened,
The wild passion I’ve been feeding was injured, and I took her to Wildlife rehab for surgery. She’s close to being fully recovered, and I have the option of picking her up and releasing her back in my neighborhood or them releasing her in the country on land where there’s water and trees. The opossum is old - I would say she’s close to two years and has always lived in my suburb. She’s not been dependent on the food I’ve put out since it’s not been enough to entirely sustain her and some nights she didn’t show up. My concern with releasing her back in my area is obviously all the dangers of a busy suburb and a man 6 houses down has traps by his very secure backyard chicken coop and I’m not sure what he does with the poor creatures he traps. Of course there are dangers in the country too and she’s never been there. It’s the unknown, I’m leaning towards bringing her back home. No place is safe. They have such a hard life wherever they go,
I have to leave for a week and my pet sitter is not going to prepare the very healthy diet for the opossums that I do. I never feed them cat food. I know I should never have been feeding them in the first place, but since I do, what specific cat food would be “good” for them during this week I’m gone since that’s about all the sitter would agree to put out along with walnuts and maybe cut up bananas ? I have two or three very young opossums as well as adults. Metabolic bone disease is a concern.
I finally caught the injured opossum. Now I need to transfer her to a dog carrier to get her to wildlife rehab tomorrow. I’m not sure how. Will she be ok in cage tonight or will she bang and thrash and hurt herself?
I have to find a way of catching her. She comes as well as 4 other opossums, I set out a trap but all the others go in the trap, eat the sardines and she never enters. I can’t sit out there waiting for her because she won’t come. Help!! I’ve been trying for days now to take her to Wildlife Rehab Center. If I go out there when she’s there, I will approach from her front and she’ll run before I can get her. I have to go through a gate, across a long patio and she’ll hear me and take off. If I go out the back door, it squeaks and is noisy so they all run the minute they hear it. The place they eat is down a long flight of stairs too. If I go out the front door and around the side through the fence gate, she’ll see me or hear me long before I can get to her. I know their eyesight‘s bad but they’re hearing is so good. I’ve not been able to sneak up on a single one ever. Last night I tried to quietly sneak up on her with a blanket to throw over her but she lifted her noise, smelled me and ran. She is fast.
He is so cute and I’m curious what age she might be.