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Hawkeye
If you see a possum in nature, somehow it's your fault. Suddenly, they're ready to attack. They're like nature's angry, furry little ninjas. If you can see their eyes, you're already too close.

So I was throwing out the trash earlier when just beyond the bin, atop the fence, I spot a possum. We both stood frozen in our tracks until the possum then let out a furious growl. It got in a position like he was ready to jump. This scared the shit out of me, and I Zoidberg woop-wooped it back into the house as fast as I could. Had I been around when he jumped, the thing would've landed square on my face.

Possums. They'll rape your face.
>> Anonymous
Sounds like the raccoons in my area. God I hate raccoons.
>> Anonymous
lol, americans crack me up by being obsessed with raccoons, possums and other critters. Every american is like Bill Murray's character in Caddyshack.
>> Anonymous
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Well I don't know where the fuck you live, but the possums in my neighbourhood act just like cats. They wander in and out of your yard, make a few grunting noises in summer, and eat fruits if you leave them on a plate under a tree. When we had my old cat he'd catch possies much bigger than him and leave them beheaded on the front step.
>> Anonymous
>>140930
The only real possums live in OZ. What OP is talking about are opossums. LOL AMERIKKKA.
>> Anonymous
>>140932
Well, that would make sense, since I live south of Melbourne. Ringtails and Brushtails are the most common, occasionally a glider.
>> Anonymous
i love opossums.
i see a lot here, usually right before dawn and i like to stop and observe them. not one has ever attacked or charged at me. when i was younger i would chase them and try to catch them. all the did was either play dead, run or hiss at me. And if they didn't run, i'd pick them up by their tails and show it off. Not a wise idea, but I never got bit. They smell pretty bad though.

it wouldn't have jumped on your face either, OP. Opossums can't jump high enough and rarely attack. You'd have to have a limb in front of its face, or touching it in order to bite you. I have never heard of a case where a possum charged at someone. Its all a big act. Opossums are generally docile and calm creatures. You probably just spooked it and it acted in self defense. Opossums are huge wussies and just want to be left alone. You could probably have just stood there and all it would do is continuing hissing for a little while and eventually it would walk away.

OP is a huge pussy.
>> Anonymous
>>140932
we only have one marsupial here anyway, so we refer to them as opossums.
might as well bitch at us for calling a poodle a dog.
>> BiChan
>>140932

Those Brushtails are violent bastards. They also pee on you if you throw things at them. Don't ask how I know.
>> Anonymous
>>140869
Zoidberg woop-wooping? I love you already....
>> Anonymous
I have possoms living.... living somewhere... around my house. Every damn night I let my dogs out, they spaz up untill I come outside to see, lone behold, the same damn possom they barked at the night before. honestly my dogs must be so fucking bored.

on a related note, they may live in my damn roof, but thats unlikely because I also have some damn bush mice in there. If I look out the window at dawn there they are bouncing around carelessly with those twittery idiot tiny bluebirds or whatever those tiny birds are, drinking out of the dog water bowl (my dogs sleep inside) and stealing any food I may have dropped from when I was feeding my guenea pigs and rabbits.
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If you see a Dropbear in nature, somehow it's your fault. Suddenly, they're ready to attack. They're like nature's angry, furry little ninjas. If you can see their eyes, you're already too close.

So I was throwing out the trash earlier when just beyond the bin, atop the fence, I spot a possum. We both stood frozen in our tracks until the Dropbear then let out a furious growl. It got in a position like he was ready to jump. This scared the shit out of me, and I Zoidberg woop-wooped it back into the house as fast as I could. Had I been around when he jumped, the thing would've landed square on my face.

Dropbears. They'll rape your face.
>> Anonymous
>>140936
>>we only have one marsupial here anyway, so we refer to them as possums.
>>might as well bitch at us for calling a poodle a fox.

Fixed to match OP
>> Anonymous
>>140938

I had one living in my bathroom for a month before I finally got the courage to kick it out. It used to sleep between the gap of the dunny and the wall.
>> Anonymous
There be no opossum in YURR-UP.

North American wildlife is awesome.
I saw racoons in a zoo once.
>> Anonymous
"They are commonly also called "possums," though that term is also applied to Australian fauna of the suborder Phalangeriformes. The Virginia Opossum is the original animal named "opossum". The word comes from Algonquian wapathemwa, not Greek or Latin, so the plural is opossums. Colloquially, the Virginia opossum is frequently called simply possum."

Hope that clears some things up.
>> Anonymous
>>141049
fucking owned, eurofags&aussies.
>> Anonymous
>>141049

LOLO AMERIKK... oh wait
>> Anonymous
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>>141056
yo, moron.
>> Anonymous
>>141413
yo moron.
>a prehensile-tailed marsupial, Didelphis virginiana, of the eastern U.S., the female having an abdominal pouch in which its young are carried: noted for the habit of feigning death when in danger.
source is dictionary.com.

Each dictionary is going to a have a different definition of is but the truth is, the virginia opossum is the original animal named 'opossum'. So suck my dick.
>> Anonymous
>>141417
of it,*
>> Anonymous
I had a groundhog bare its teeth at me.
I went to a high-school track to run early one morning and apparently I stopped next to where this hog had been hogging away oblivious to my presence. It proceeded to whip around, decide it was cornered at one foot away, (even though a large expanse of grass surrounded us) and then foof-hiss, baring--oh god!--four big rodent incisors.

I laughed at it. I started walking away from it and it turned with me hissing. I wonder what it would've done had I lunged at it.
When I was half-way across the field it waddled a little away from the track and started hogging again. A groundhog. Nature's fat angry uncle?
>> Anonymous
>>141417
each dictionary will have different definition of dick, but, okay, keep your original virgina opossums, they're all yours. /an/ is wrong place to get in flamefest anyway. so let's call it a day and even. (though my dictionary was just more comprehensive).
>> Anonymous
>>141420
..and anyways, I'm from europe, so in any case no opossums/possums @ my house, so it's pretty irrelevant.
>> Core !JD2r9bRTlg
>>141419

I've read, groundhogs actually pretty territorial.. and that they can kill a small dog. Seriously.. I would of never assumed they were aggressive.. for a plant eater..

Anyway, have a groundhog living under my house atm.. sounded like it was doing construction under there a couple days back.

As for possums.. I have only run into one live one.. and it was eating my cats cat-food.. looked like a freaking large ass 30 pnd rat..

I spent five minutes watching it.. it looked at me for a second and continued eating like I was no threat at all.. Which kinda pissed me off. So
since the cat was to scared doing anything I ran it off..myself (Honestly I don't really blame the cat) Ugly ass .. looking creature. It left pretty easily, didn't act aggressive at all..just waddled off..

The one in the picture kinda looks cute.. Kinda.. The one that decided to steal cat-food.. looked like it had battle scars and had been around the block once or twice.
>> Anonymous
>>141426
Anything can kill a small yappy dog.

I HAD some groundhogs in my backyard, but my dogs got to them. Big surprise I got when I went outside to feed my rabbits and I stepped on this huge, furry thing. At first I thought it was an obese raccoon the thing was so big.
They(or my one dog. doubtful that my beagle could kill anything because she's afraid of everything) killed two more within the next few days. Funny thought because none of the animals had any blood on them.