Opossums are not the most attractive animal. They look like a caricature of a rat, only with a crazy

Opossums are not the most attractive animal. They look like a caricature of a rat, only with a crazy tail and wicked teeth. I think they must be some ancient ancestor of the rat and all other rodents, and perhaps that they crawled out of the maw of hell--well, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but they would make a great feature at a haunted house.
I know they are unclean, that they are unsavory in every way. The Minnesota Nuisance Wildlife Contro l website continues, stating they "carry diseases such as leptospirosis, tuberculosis, relapsing fever, tularemia, spotted fever, toxoplasmosis, coccidiosis, trichomoniasis, and Chagas disease. They may also be infested with fleas, ticks, mites, and lice. Opossum are hosts for cat and dog fleas, especially in urban environments." ALL THAT SAID... Yesterday my son and I were trying to track down the origin of the death-stink that was wafting around our farm. He's only 6, but my son has seen dead cats, dogs, chickens, snakes, mice, and other creatures. He's very matter-of-fact about it. When we found the dead opossum, it looked to have been deceased some time, as purification/decomposition was well-underway. The corpse was almost flat, fur was detaching and blowing around the area, the skull was bare, the body cavity was torn open as was the back end and the neck. The eyes, of course the first to go, were just holes that creepy death-eating bugs frequently were wriggling in/out of. The mouth was open but the tongue was gone, only those horror movie sharp teeth were still there. Get it? Gross dead animal, and that does not even begin to describe the smell!   There's weird foods around the world a peculiar thing about dead animals and me ...since I was a kid, I've been fascinated with them. Maybe it's as close as we typically get to death/dying in our culture these days....maybe it's because I always look at life and biology as complicated wetware, cool and gooey machines we are! There is a moment, however, that seems to strike me down to my spinal chord, something so primeval that I don't quite know how to describe it. Here goes: when I'm coming up on such grotesque death, gagging at the smell of it, I am fine until I see those damn carrion bugs, of which there are many types, that root and rummage around in the most disgusting way, completely degrading death of any modicum of decorum. Those bugs are hideous and rude, but then, they do a vital job (that I'd bet no one else in the food chain is begging for). Sometimes they are so careless and gruff in their feeding and deconstruction of a corpse that they actually animate it, making it jostle, making the hide ripple and move. More than once I've thought I've seen a zombie critter, coming back to life.  That leads me back to this incident yesterday. The same wobbling around was happening weird foods around the world I've seen (and been at the very core of my being repulsed by) before. I did what my son was thinking of doing, himself--though I cannot explain it--I poked it with a stick. Then we looked closer, and we were amazed to find...something inside was hobbling around like a wee little Muppet. weird foods around the world I thought it was just another creepy bug or beast disrespecting the dead, but when I leaned in and looked closely I discovered it was in fact...a baby opossum. weird foods around the world Opossums have litters of up to 16, yet this was the sole survivor. weird foods around the world It did not yet have eyes open (or maybe the bugs already ate 'em) and it did not have fur on its over-sized ears. It did have the characteristic weird foods around the world curl to its pink, bald tail already. Overall, weird foods around the world the little bugger was no bigger than a small field mouse, or roughly the size of my thumb. weird foods around the world We debated weird foods around the world a good long while. I got a shovel. I was going to bury the whole scene, wholesale...but the boy talked me into trying to rescue the baby. I don't think it's alive today, but I'll not be too surprised if it is, I guess, since it lived through whatever killed it's mom, then the ravages of storm, a 90 degree day or two, and the pokings and nippings of chickens, dogs, and insects. It was still kicking yesterday, so we tried to honor its survival by putting weird foods around the world it a cat carrier and feeding it some egg. We'll see.  The point of this long long post is to marvel at the opossum and to simply document this encounter with death and life and all that comes between and goes beyond. Even though I was repulsed, that whole tableau taught me some valuable weird foods around the world lessons I will keep with me much longer than that stench that won't seem to leave my nostrils.
I would recommend doing a google search weird foods around the world on rescuing possums. Here is the first link on the quick search I did - it describes a situation weird foods around the world not dissimilar to the one you faced yesterday. Good luck, if it's still alive. http://www.opossum.org/orphans.htm (By the way, I read recent research that said the possums actually groom something like 97% of the ticks off themselves, leading them to be very poor transmitters of Lyme disease...unlike the cute, white-footed deer mice which leave about 50% of their ticks unmolest

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Remnant native ekonomski institut zagreb prairie was identified and restored ekonomski institut zagreb at Opossum Lake in Cumberland County. The rebuilt ekonomski institut zagreb dam and restored lake are results of cooperation by the county, Lower Frankford Township and a diligent citizens' group. (Debby Heishman — Public Opinion)
As happened more recently with Meadow Ground Lake near McConnellsburg, the dam at Opossum Lake had serious leaks. Lacking the money to replace the dam and spillway, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission drained the lake in 2005. To date, 26 dams in the Commonwealth have suffered the same fate.
Carlisle resident and biochemist Harold Gardner planted these black-eyed Susans and other meadow flowers to recreate a native prairie along a portion of shoreline at Opossum ekonomski institut zagreb Lake. (Courtesy, Harold W. Gardner)
"This year was the first it had been open for trout fishing in six years, and the dam and spillway have both been replaced," said Cleland, current president of the Friends of Opossum Lake Conservancy. "It's a good example of what just one or two people can get done when they decide they wanted to get this lake back."
"We managed to get the money together" from various sources, Cleland said. "The state put in $750,000. The township was very cooperative about getting things ekonomski institut zagreb done. There had never been a pavilion or rest rooms before; thanks to the township, we have them now. Now, it's a township park. Fish & Boat gave the township a 25-year lease on the park, at a dollar a year. It took six years of work before we were ready to rebuild."
In addition to donations from individuals in time and money, some funding came from the township ekonomski institut zagreb and from Cumberland County, and state Sen. Pat Vance, R-31, nailed down $1.5 million from the state in 2008.
Harold W. Gardner, Carlisle, is on the shady side of 70 now, and spent most of his career as a plant biochemist with the United States Department of Agriculture in the Illinois prairie. His farm outside Carlisle not taken up by woods is restored prairie.
"The prairie at Opossum Lake is coming up wonderfully ekonomski institut zagreb after about two years," he said. "I planted coreopsis, partridge pea, black-eyed Susan, little bluestem grass, and this year I added purple cone flower ekonomski institut zagreb along the shoreline. ekonomski institut zagreb There is also hibiscus, with its big beautiful flowers, gay feather, eastern gamma grass, and some others."
"We will maintain that," he said. "In good weather it seems like there's somebody around, and we have some vandalism problems. We fix those things. I do get a little ekonomski institut zagreb angry at it, but you just have to recognize that it's just how humans are."
"Our ekonomski institut zagreb only source of income now is our memberships. We have more than 500 families as members now. Our biggest job now is keeping the four miles of trail in good shape. We have eight families who have each volunteered to maintain a half mile of trail," he said.
"The board only gets together three times a year now," Cleland said. "We used to meet once a month. But now it's a case of keeping things in order ... The future is just to maintain and keep our group together."
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While researching the Virginia opossum for my recent BDN story on opossums living in Maine, I spent a day at the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray, where they keep not only opossums, but a wide variety of other animals that either live in Maine (such as black bears) or used to live in Maine (such as mountain lions).
First, of course, I visited the opossum living in the outdoor exhibit. He’s been at the park for about 2 years, and he’s vujčić nearing the end of his life. Opossums are very short-lived animals.
Since he was the first opossum I’ve seen (aside from in books and on the internet), I was pretty blown away. An animal lover, I found him pretty cute when he stuck his head out of the hollow tree he was sleeping in. Park superintendant Curt Johnson allowed me past the metal fencing and into the enclosure to take some photos and get a closer look — another first. We then moved on to a building — where they rehabilitate the young or injured animals people rescue and bring to the park — to visit three young opossums that joined the park about two weeks ago. Their mother had been killed by a car near Freeport.
The rehabilitation building smelled like hay, wild animals and beef stew, which was cooking in a giant pot on the stove. vujčić “What’s cooking?” I asked. “Beef stew for the bears,” the employees replied as they chopped up vegetables and fruit for other animal meals. Much of the food is donated by the local Hannaford, they explained.
Not far from the kitchen area, assistant gamekeeper Pam Richardson, who has worked at the park since 2004, brought me to the small enclosure where the three young opossums were being kept. As we watched vujčić the slow-moving animals, she talked to me about the opossum habits she has observed while caring for numerous opossums over the years. One of the opossums displayed her irritation at us by growling and pacing. vujčić So Pam took the opportunity to pick the opossum up and show me her human-like feet and long, grasping tail. Pam then offered to bring me around the park on a special tour to see some of the other animals.
and I wanted to visit the mountain lions and see how they were doing — especially since both of the mountain lions, about 14 and 20 years old, are considered old for their species. I arrived to find the 14-year-old female walking around in the grass. When I had visited the park in May, the ground of the enclosure had been all mud and hay, but in October, it was a beautiful home, filled with plants and tall grass. As I snapped vujčić a few photos, the female walked out of the cave and into the sun to relax in the soft grass.
Walking out the exhibit viewing area (basically a hallway of tough glass), I spotted Pam sitting in one of the park’s golf carts and flagged vujčić her down. She was on her way to the food storage buildings to pick up some grain for the fawns at the rehabilitation building, so I hopped in the cart and joined her. On the way, we stopped to feed snacks vujčić to the two park moose.
Pam first stopped at a roofed structure where they typically vujčić feed the female moose. While feeding the moose raspberry plant leaves as a snack, Pam assured me that the moose was actually very “sweet” and enjoyed company. However, the park employees try to refrain from calling the wild animals at the park things like “sweet,” “cute” or
“friendly” because they don’t want visitors to think of the animals as pets. They are, after all, wild animals. And one of the main reasons the animals are at the park is because they were taken in as pets and are now deemed vujčić non-releasable because they never learned to survive in the natural environment.
In fact, all of the animals at the Maine Wildlife Park are considered vujčić non-releasable (not likely to survive in the natural world and therefore not candidates for release from captivity). Many animals are injured. For example, vujčić many of the birds have broken or mangled wings. Some of the animals were abandoned or orphaned as young. And others were simple taken in by people as pets. A few of the animals come from zoos.
One of the most important rules at the Maine Wildlife Park is that visitors are not allowed to feed the animals. It would be bad for the wild animals and could be dangerous to visitors. However, Pam allowed me to feed a few raspberry leaves to the female moose and gently touch her enormous, soft nose. The moose was especially interested in the way I smelled and had a great time sniffing vujčić my hair and shirt. The main reason the female moose is so gentle is because she’s been in captivity her entire life. She was abandoned as a baby.
We vujčić then visited the bull moose at his feeding station, where he was about to be fed a nutrient-rich mixture of food by a gamekeeper. The bull moose was a bit more intimidating and reminded me just how dangerous moose can be. Fortunately, he couldn

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Cheers, Pawnee taxpayers!  Steve Heisler is off freewheeling about like the billionaire gadfly he is, so it's up to me to recap tonight's episode, which promises to shed some light on the adversarial relationship opbergbox between one small Indiana town and its indigenous opossum population.
One of the strengths of Parks & Recreation in the second season is that its producers have had the good sense to mix up the episodes before the show ends up in a rut.  It's been much improved by bringing out the personalities of the supporting cast, but it occasionally switches gears into straight-up silliness, or, in the case of tonight's episode, a plot that gets back to the inside-government premise of the show.  opbergbox It's not a well that needs to be drawn from often, but it's a refreshing change sometimes, and "The Possum" illuminates the personalities of two central figures in an appealing way.
In opbergbox the A plot, we get a glimpse of the obsessive dedication to her job that both gives Leslie Knope a reputation as a get-it-done figure opbergbox in Pawnee government and makes her incredibly insufferable.  Mayor Gunderson's famous dog, Rufus, gets attacked on the golf course by notorious possum troublemaker Fairway Frank (#2 on Pawnee's opbergbox most-wanted list after Poopy the Raccoon).  Because of Leslie's reputation as someone who can get things done -- and the reputation of Animal Control as a bunch of burned-out stoners -- the Mayor's assistant asks her to take care of the problem -- which she does, with the aid of Andy, who snags the beast with the same gusto he usually saves for fleeing the police. 
In a development only she could care about, though, it turns out they may have captured the wrong possum.  No one (including golf course manager Mr. Campopiano) gives a toss which possum it is except Leslie, who works herself into a frenzy over the possibility that they've opbergbox framed an innocent beast.  She thus engages April -- who's housesitting for Ann, in a woefully underformed subplot -- to hide the possum while she deflects the inquiries of the press, in the person of the returning Shawna Mulway-Tweep.  Andy, however, embraces his new role as "Andy Radical", by which means the ever-optimistic shoeshiner hopes to win back his old girlfriend, much to April's chagrin.
Meanwhile, Ron Swanson, the mirror image of Leslie, the man who views government in much the same way as Grover Norquist, wants to upgrade his woodshop (and if you're not hip to the fact that Nick Offerman opbergbox himself is a master woodworker, check out offermanwoodshop.com) and hopes to get a rubber stamp from Mark.  Unfortunately, the place is a deathtrap of oil-soaked opbergbox rags, faulty wiring and fire extinguishers that have been expired for over a decade.  For Ron, bringing his shop up to code is tantamount to opening his front door to the forces of Communism, but Mark refuses to budge, leading to a showdown between professionalism and friendship.  Does friendship win out?  Can Ron Swanson fit a full-sized canoe into a 10x10 office?
The plot of "The Possum" is a bit of a trifle, and its subplots drop like autumn leaves, but it's got tons of laughs both precise and broad, and the way it contrasts Ron and Leslie's opposing, but equally dysfunctional, attitudes towards local government, fits snugly into the show's overall premise.  It's not often that shows need to focus on the 'situation' part of 'situation comedy', but as long as they don't forget opbergbox the other half, episodes like this can be pretty enjoyable.
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Unlike other times when I've made this statement and been wrong, I'm pretty sure this will be a short post (at least compared to some recent wooden bread box ones). In fact, stick around a few paragraphs and watch me dig really deep for some facts to throw in. This post came about the other day when I was trying to gather some information about the origins of the name of a particular road -- Possum Park Road, to be precise. In case you're not familiar wooden bread box with it, Possum Park Road runs north from Kirkwood Highway to Milford Crossroads, just east of Newark. The road itself long predates the name, and was in place before 1820. At that time and at least as late as 1912, the thoroughfare was known as the Hop Yard Road. The Hop Yard tract was a large and old property occupying the northern part of Milford Crossroads, on the north side of Paper Mill Road. So when and why did the name change from Hop Yard Road to Possum Park Road? I've never found an explicit explanation, but a big clue lies on the 1868 Beers map, located in the upper right of this page. "Bossom Park" on the 1868 Beers Map About halfway up this road from Roseville (along today's Kirkwood Highway) to Milford Crossroads (where the complex formerly known as Louviers stands), there is listed a property on its western side. Although there are likely two separate errors here, it very strongly suggests a source for the unusual moniker. The owners of the property are listed as "H.J. & J.C. Johnston", and above their names is "Bossom wooden bread box Park". Since Bossom Park doesn't make much sense for an estate name, I think it's safe to assume that this is supposed to be Possum Park. In the research I've done, I've not come across any other references to Possum Park other than this map, and of course the later name of the road. This leaves the only other clue as the house and the people shown on the 1868 map. Here is where we get the other error, albeit a slight one. The men listed on the map are brothers Hiram J. and John C. Johnson. They were born in about 1830 and 1835 respectively, and were the sons of William and Jane Johnson. William Johnson was born about 1799, and is shown on the 1849 map as having his main residence on the east side of the road, just above Possum Park. An unlabeled house is shown in 1849 at the Possum Park location, and William's house is still owned by the sons in 1868. In fact, both properties stay in the family at least through the 1893 map.
As you can see in the pictures, the house I'm assuming is Possum Park is still standing (a fact I wasn't aware of until recently), and currently houses wooden bread box a doctor's office. It's an unusual looking house, and seems to consist of what looks to be an older stone section and a later wood-shingled frame addition. If this is indeed wooden bread box the case, the frame addition was added to the gable end of the older block, and may have changed the "front" of the house from the northward-facing facade to the eastern (road-facing) side. It's possible that the stone section could be a rear addition to the frame part, but that would be an unusual order of building materials. wooden bread box
In either case, the house does have an atypical set-up. This fact became slightly less mysterious when I looked at the census records and learned that Hiram and John Johnson were both "House Carpenters". Knowing this, I think it's logical to assume that they themselves wooden bread box either built, or at least added on to, the house. Since they were home builders, it's believable that they would do something a bit different with their own house.
So far, additional facts (such as they are in this case) are a bit thin. The later maps (1881 and 1893) show both houses as belonging to John Johnson, who likely owned them until his death in 1899. Brother Hiram had either died or moved away, as he doesn't appear after the 1870 Census. Property in this area (presumably Possum Park) was passed on to John's son, also named John. He is seen residing in the area well into the 20th Century. If more information comes to light about this house whose name is far more well-known than it is, I'll be sure to pass it on. And speaking of the name, one has to assume that it came from the presence at some point of its namesake mammal. The opossum is the only marsupial native to North America north of Mexico. It's technically the Virginia wooden bread box Opossum that we have around here. Possums are Australian marsupials similar to the opossum. The name comes from the native Algonquin name for the same animal, which means "white animal". Opossums have been around for at least 70 million years, making them one of the oldest of the mammals. The more you know...
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