What animal is this?

[Guest Lester Weevils]

The old porch tom cat passed away a couple of years ago. He preferred living outdoors to sharing the house with the hounds, but never was much an indoor cat.

 

Haven't seen the porch possum lately, but when the old porch tom lived here, there was a porch possum who seemed to be pals with the cat. They would share food and water, and many nights could be observed sleeping "together" each in his own porch chair. Maybe the cat was just afraid to tangle with the possum and therefore let him coexist, but that cat never did let any other cats in the yard without a fight.

 

I never tried to pet the possum, however. If either had gone in the back where the coonhounds can get to, they would have been endangered species.

[Wingshooter]

The old porch tom cat passed away a couple of years ago. He preferred living outdoors to sharing the house with the hounds, but never was much an indoor cat.

Haven't seen the porch possum lately, but when the old porch tom lived here, there was a porch possum who seemed to be pals with the cat. They would share food and water, and many nights could be observed sleeping "together" each in his own porch chair. Maybe the cat was just afraid to tangle with the possum and therefore let him coexist, but that cat never did let any other cats in the yard without a fight.

I never tried to pet the possum, however. If either had gone in the back where the coonhounds can get to, they would have been endangered species.

Haha. It's funny when animals get along like that. We used to have a cat that shared his food and water with a family of skunks. Sometimes I would see them all crowded around the bowl together with the cat right in the middle of them. He was a black and white cat, so we always joked he thought he was a skunk.

[DaveS]

It's weird, they don't purrrrrr when petted......  

No but they sure do hiss!!!

 

Dave

[R_Bert]

In grade school, I actually took a possum (baby/juvenile, maybe 6" long) to show & tell.

 

It wasn't happy about that, and probably the teacher wasn't thrilled either.  The kids, however, loved it.

 

But those were different times.