View Comments so far ↓

• 1 feignedanger // Aug 6, 2009 at 8:43 am

  that poster is an old internet joke

  http://newscoma.com/2008/04/02/cat-found/

• 2 chopper_74 // Aug 6, 2009 at 9:01 am

  lol…not my kitty…

• 3 bigtimetopbanana // Aug 6, 2009 at 2:02 pm

  Possum's live in Australasia.. Oppossum's live in Ballard.

  Related, but not the same animal.

• 4 Mystech // Aug 6, 2009 at 3:13 pm

  Speaking of lost cats, looks like mine turned up in Bellevue. Answers to the name “Snuggles” and loves squirrel-snacks. http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_0805...

• 5 Cool Springs // Aug 6, 2009 at 3:45 pm

  “Not friendly?” I think the picture speaks for itself! Lol

• 6 Ballardmom // Aug 6, 2009 at 3:54 pm

  I've seen that cat. She never looks mean in person. Usually she just keels over and falls asleep when I come across her.

• 7 seattlemedic7 // Aug 6, 2009 at 4:15 pm

  Possum's live in Australasia.. Oppossum's live in Ballard… and O'ppossums live in Ireland.. they are a closely related.

• 8 jburgh // Aug 6, 2009 at 5:15 pm

  I saw a similar poster on 28th last year. Different pictures, and street name, other text was the same. Very funny. I've never seen an oppossum in Ballard, but growing up in Chicago, I saw them regularly.

• 9 Silver // Aug 6, 2009 at 5:57 pm

  …where they hang out with Paddy O'furniture?

  (Cough, cough…)

• 10 Black_Sheep // Aug 6, 2009 at 6:02 pm

  Oh, for crying out loud, Silver…that's low, even for you. :)

• 11 Silver // Aug 6, 2009 at 6:04 pm

  I have actually held an opossum. She was very sweet, if not the sharpest tool in the shed. There is a woman in north Seattle that actually rescues them. Sadly, their natural lifespan isn't all that long anyway.

  It was a cool, very ancient-looking critter. Didn't even smell too bad. ;-)

• 12 seattlemedic7 // Aug 6, 2009 at 6:05 pm

  SEE even Silver knows what i'm talking about…..

• 13 Black_Sheep // Aug 6, 2009 at 6:06 pm

  I'm not sure that's a good thing….

• 14 Silver // Aug 6, 2009 at 6:11 pm

  HE STARTED IT!!!

• 15 Ballardmom // Aug 6, 2009 at 10:46 pm

  They don't smell that bad until they play dead, then they actually have glands that emit a smell that they are decomposing to ward off predators by making them think they're dead.

• 16 Silver // Aug 7, 2009 at 1:24 am

  Ewwwew! I mean, how clever of them!

• 17 eric // Aug 7, 2009 at 4:19 am

  when i was a kid, my dad resued a baby one from my cat. it was in the evening, so there wasn't anywhere we could take it at the time so my dad put the lil thing in a shoe box ON TOP OF THE FRIDGE.

  next AM, i wake up and see my cat staring intently at the fridge, or underneath it. i see the lil “possum under there (never knew how it wound up on the floor..), so i try to grab it – to help – and the little toothless baby thing bit the hell out of me!!

  dad always teased me about that one.

  anyway.

• 18 Black_Sheep // Aug 7, 2009 at 6:18 am

  I don't care WHO started it, you are BOTH in trouble.

• 19 Black_Sheep // Aug 7, 2009 at 6:20 am

  The babies are hella cute. How do they grow up to be so…well…uncute?

• 20 Name // Aug 7, 2009 at 6:37 am

  Almost stepped on a baby one coming down off a ladder. If growled and showed its teeth. Swung the paint can at it and it took off. Have not seem a one this year Used to all you had to do was go outside to see one running up or down the street. Also would see where they had been hit by a car quite often. Did they eliminate themselves?

• 21 Silver // Aug 7, 2009 at 9:05 am

  They've been around an awfully long time to eliminate themselves so quickly. My sense is that the road kill thing a seasonal phenomenon.

  Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?

  A: To show the opossum that it could be done.

• 22 Black_Sheep // Aug 7, 2009 at 6:34 pm

  Ok, you've redeemed yourself…lol

• 23 Andrew Davenhall // Aug 7, 2009 at 7:34 pm

  Thanks Adrian Makins…

Leave a Comment (read our comment rules)