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Posted: 1/24/2006 7:29:19 PM EDT

Came home from work today and there, laying in my backyard as if it was sleeping, was a dead possum. No visible marks or wounds. Just laying there on its side as if it was wallking and suddenly fell over and died. I know my cat didn't kill it. I dont have a dog. What could possibly cause a possum to fall over dead in my backyard?
I guess tomorrow, when i get home, I'll bag the little bastard and put it in the garbage can to be picked up the next morning.
Ever find anything dead in your yard that you didnt kill yourself?

Posted: 1/24/2006 7:34:17 PM EDT

[#1]

Chupacabra.

Posted: 1/24/2006 7:38:00 PM EDT

[#2]

Are you sure it's dead? It may have been passing through, had a dog rush up on it, and "played opossum"--which is an involuntary reaction to high stress. Perhaps he will leave in a while.

Or . . . did you hear about the truck driver who picks up road killed armadillos in the south and puts them on his truck--until he gets MUCH farther north than the 'dillos inhabit? My point is, it could have been dropped from an airplane.

Posted: 1/24/2006 7:38:50 PM EDT

[#3]

Rabies, for one

Be careful about touching random dead animals, especially if there's no apparent reason that it died. If it's in your yard, got there during the day, and died, then i'd be very cautious about grabbing it.

Posted: 1/24/2006 7:47:32 PM EDT

[#4]

Opossums can carry plague fleas. Wear gloves and bag it in plastic before discarding.

Bubonic plague-infested fleas have been found in OR, don't know about WA --- wouldn't surprise me to hear of it on the East side of the Cascades, though.

Posted: 1/24/2006 8:30:58 PM EDT

[#5]

Oh, yeah, BP problems in WA, ID, just about anywhere you might find fleas, and they're probably on the upswing with all these mild winters. Fleas, I mean.

Posted: 1/24/2006 8:33:30 PM EDT

[#6]

It may have had the hiv.

Posted: 1/24/2006 11:16:31 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
My point is, it could have been dropped from an airplane.

yep , i was thinking the very same thing .

brainman why didnt you just bag the little fucker up and chuck him when you found him ?

688

Posted: 1/25/2006 12:21:57 AM EDT

[#8]

"That is all I have to say".
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Posted: 1/25/2006 12:32:01 AM EDT

[#9]

Vin Diesel killed it.

IBTCN (In Before The Chuck Norris)

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