Pool-Pooping Possum Relocation Project

Remember this guy that I found in the pool a couple weeks ago? Well, he has become an on-going visitor to our pool after my first rescue. I've fished him out of the pool at least five times since then. I started putting up a Bridge of Life so he can climb out of the pool all by himself. Sounds like a good solution, right? But did you know that opossums like to poop in water? Almost every morning we have had either the possum and his floating poop (when I forget the Bridge of Life before dark) or just his poop (with the Bridge of Life).

So we staged an intervention. It was either relocation or...I don't even want to think about the alternatives that Tim had running through his mind. 

On Monday morning when Tim fished the possum (and his poop) out of the pool and he was all sad and cold and scared and tired from swimming all night, we put a cage over him. I know, this sounds crazy.

 

 The trap. 

 When he was dried off and feeling rested and recovered (i.e. feisty) we transferred him to a pillow case. And rode him on the bike down the street to the wildlife refuge.

The release.

Eventually he let go of the pillow case with his teeth and claws and crawled away to find a new home.

Enough about possums. On to Christmas!