I’ve met a number of lovely ladies who perform a great service to the only marsupial in North America- the Virginia Possum. They do possum rescue , which is a selfless act that often involves rescuing tiny babies from the pouch of a mother possum killed by traffic.

“I always keep a pair of rubber gloves in the car. If I discover a recently dead mother I pull out the babies and take them home.” This is what one possum rescuer told me recently. Wow.

Sometimes the babies are rehabilitated and let go in the “wild” and sometimes they make their permanent home with their savior. I think it’s a nice arrangement, and a good way to familiarize us humans with a little animal that is unfairly despised by many as looking “ratlike”. Sure they have sharp teeth, but that’s mostly for effect.