This is too cool. My partner and I have a pet “possum” too (sort of). He comes to our door every night about 10pm and looks for us to feed him. He even takes food from my partners hand now. He has no fear of us, but everyone else frightens him. That is good, we don’t want him to be friendly with just anyone. We have really gotten attached to him. We call him “Buddy”. They are cute in an “ugly” sort of way.

My son brought a rabbit and we let it free in the backyard, since we don’t like to cage animals. There is an oposum that comes around and eats the food we put out for the cat. Is the rabbit in danger of being attacked by the oposum?

Still not cute at all….sorry.

Is it the camera angle or is this fellow roly-poly?

They are *weasels*. No thanks.

“they have some sort of immunity, or near-immunity, to rabies. which is tres cool”

Does anyone have a link in regard to this? Thanks muchly!

I love possums, to me they’re quite cute. They only bite with those wicked teeth as a laaaaast resort. And they serve an important role in the natural community.
They’re nature’s little garbage men!

Ummm, Kelly? The possum you saw probably wasn’t mourning the dead possum, but rather about to eat him. Maybe saying grace? They’re notorious scavengers. Sort of like catfish, only on terra firma.

My boyfriend endures daily e-mails with links to cuteoverload, and he patiently listens while I discuss exactly why I love a specific animal photo (“And look at his toes! And his little eyes!” and so on). He rarely demonstrates the same degree of emotion that I do when I view cuteoverload. But folks…He was *really* confused that there’s debate over whether the opossum is cute. He said, “Wait, people don’t think they’re cute?” And then he became genuinely concerned. He even brought it up again at dinner last night.

People, please–help my boyfriend sleep tonight. Let’s come together on this divisie issue and accept the fact that the opossum is, well, amazing.