Comments on: ‘Cat found’ poster shows one mean kitty

By: Andrew Davenhall

Andrew Davenhall — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:34:30 +0000

Thanks Adrian Makins…

By: Black_Sheep

Black_Sheep — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:34:36 +0000

Ok, you've redeemed yourself…lol

By: Silver

Silver — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:05:30 +0000

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.

By: Name

Name — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:37:25 +0000

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?

By: Black_Sheep

Black_Sheep — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:20:20 +0000

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

By: Black_Sheep

Black_Sheep — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:18:43 +0000

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

By: eric

eric — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:19:49 +0000

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.

By: Silver

Silver — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:24:46 +0000

Ewwwew! I mean, how clever of them!

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:46:11 +0000

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.

By: Silver

Silver — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:11:08 +0000

HE STARTED IT!!!

By: Black_Sheep

Black_Sheep — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:06:18 +0000

I'm not sure that's a good thing….

By: seattlemedic7

seattlemedic7 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:05:03 +0000

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

By: Silver

Silver — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:04:12 +0000

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. ;-)

By: Black_Sheep

Black_Sheep — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:02:43 +0000

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

By: Silver

Silver — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:57:29 +0000

…where they hang out with Paddy O'furniture?

(Cough, cough…)

By: jburgh

jburgh — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:15:59 +0000

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.

By: seattlemedic7

seattlemedic7 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:15:12 +0000

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

By: Ballardmom

Ballardmom — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:54:00 +0000

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

By: Cool Springs

Cool Springs — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:45:15 +0000

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

By: Mystech

Mystech — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:13:51 +0000

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...

By: bigtimetopbanana

bigtimetopbanana — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:02:29 +0000

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

Related, but not the same animal.

By: chopper_74

chopper_74 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:01:15 +0000

lol…not my kitty…

By: feignedanger

feignedanger — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:43:35 +0000

that poster is an old internet joke

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