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Sorry, Jen, it doesn't work for me.

Well, I could have gone all day without seeing that Now I wish I hadn't tried so hard to see it. I'm not sure if I want to say thanks or not, Dave and Jen

Jen, No apology needed. I thought it was funny. You definitely did not offend me.

My friends and family call me 'Annie Oakley' because I'm the 'designated shooter' in the neighborhood. One neighbor had a woodchuck attacking his dog. He came over to get me to shoot it. When I did, he said I was so cold hearted about it and showed no remorse. What was I supposed to do, have a funeral service for it

Since we live in the country, we are forever pestered with coons, possums etc. My husband doesn't like guns, so I get to kill these critters to keep them from destroying things around our property and possibly hurting our outside cats. I shot one possum too late. It had already given our five cats ring worm. It took forever to get the ringworm under control with a lot of work and a lot of money. Afterwards, the vet told me he really thought he would be putting 5 cats to sleep because he didn't think we'd get it under control.

I knew it wasn't a real chick but just thought it was yucky.

Well, Jen, that's one incident where possums may be cute. But that's rare. Basically, they are just big rats as far as I'm concerned.

The one that gave our cats ringworm had been sleeping in the big box with the cats inside the garage. It came in thru the cat door. When I pulled the car in the garage the headlights caught a set of feet going into the cat bed. I counted heads and there set all 5 cats outside the box. Then who was in the cat box.

I assumed a stray cat but was wrong cause it was that very ugly possum. It had big patches of hair missing and was uglier than usual. A few weeks later, when all of our cats started shedding hair in big patches, we took one too the vet. He said it was ringworm and we had our work cut out for us.

Everyday for weeks, it was take any and every cloth the cats had touched and wash it in bleach. Burn the box they slept in. Bleach the patio and garage. I wished I owned stock in Clorox. Had to put ointment on each cat 3 times a day and give each cat a pill. Have you ever tried giving a cat a pill

In other words, I have no love for possums, cute or otherwise