I have 2 dogs with very active sniffers. They were sniffing around the stairs in our house, and I thought “no big deal, probably just some mice.” I set some mouse traps as I normally do, and in the off chance it’s a rat, I set out some poison because my mouse traps aren’t rat sized. About 15 minutes later, I hear one of the traps go off, I go to the stairwell to the crawlspace, and lo and behold, I see a opossum standing there licking the peanut butter off the trap. I freaked out, because it’s not what I was expecting, and the opossum had gotten somewhere I can’t seem to track down. Unfortunately, I can’t find the block of poison where I had set it, so I’m worried the little booger has eaten it.

Now that I know there’s possibly still an opossum in my crawlspace, I set a live trap with a bowl of fruit. What are some other good snacks I can put out to catch this guy, and has anyone else had similar situations with them eating mouse poison?

9/1/2026

I wish I knew who created this chart so I could give them credit. According to my local rehabilitation facility it is quite accurate. I hope it is of use to all the participants in our subreddit.

We feed neighborhood stray cats and our opossum friends stop by. Unfortunately there is also a coyote so we leave the garage door up a foot so the kitties and opossums can get in but the coyote can not. We have 2 males that are regulars and 2 or 3 females. Tonight this little one made her debut and we are wondering how old she is?

This is one of my favorite old videos of JellyBean I just love her ears and her face and just everything xD

I miss this little girl so much.

edit: LMAOOOOOOOOO i can’t believe ive made such a blunder. thank u so much to everyone who responded!! i absolutely got my answer so ill definitely be deleting this, but ill leave it up for one more day cause i think its funny.

Hey guys! I need some possum health help. I have a myriad of animals that visit my back porch, one of them being this beautiful opossum!! I'm 99% sure she is a mama because I think I've seen babies moving around in her pouch. For the last few days though, there has just been this sort of bump hanging down off of her belly. Is it just a baby or a health issue? I'm sure theres nothing to worry about, I just want to make sure she's safe and happy!

Someone mentioned that y’all might enjoy her :)

My boyfriend and I put food out for a few stray cats that come nearby. Over that time we have had a few opossums come occasionally over the past month or two, but we had this baby start coming by very often i’d say every other day for a few weeks and then suddenly he stopped. None of the other adult opossums would really stop routinely. It’s been about two or three weeks since we have seen the baby and we seen this full grown one pop up tonight. I think it may be the baby fully grown because the other opossums didn’t really know where the food was located. I cannot tell if this is the same opossum as our little baby, whom we got so attached to we named sesame. If anyone can tell by certain characteristics please let us know I’d be really happy to know he’s alright and growing up.

Through the years, I get mom opossums with joeys in her pouch. At the point the joeys are about 4”, they start falling out of her pouch and I watch on pins and needles for them to crawl back in her pouch or on her back so they aren’t left behind. The other day I found one 4.5” long and took it to wildlife rehabilitation center. Here is my question. I read that at 4” or 4 1/2”Mom does not leave them in the den while she forges for food so why is it that over the years once they start falling out of her pouch at 4 inches, I never see her with them again and I never see toddlers from her grown litter that come to the feeding station. Is she losing them all one by one as they fall out and are left for prey? I’m watching her now eating and she has no joeys in her pouch or her back,

She usually prefers to sleep in her own space but she took a little snooze in my husky’s bed with the toys yesterday 🥰😴

I just love my nightly possum encounter!

https://www.instagram.com/the_glass_call?igsi=cWI4aWk4c2Z2aW4x

No joke: I was just talking to friends about how I missed the opossum that was in my yard last year and then this little one showed up. I saw it walking through the yard around 9p so I put out some water and a little dog food. 🥰

Completely disassembled and scrubbed her whole space and redid it for her! Only thing I hadn’t put back in was some of her blankets and toys since they’re still in the wash! She was tuckered out from watching me do all that work and has been OUT like a light since 😂

I brought lucky inside for a few days during a heat wave and damnit if I’m not getting very attached to her. The plan is to release her and my partner wants me to release her. But I love her 🥹. Please talk me out of keeping her.

It's like a cat nap, but better 😆🥰

I was wondering if anyone else's opossums did this. . .I will be laying on my bed with her and she seems perfectly fine and content, but then she'll walk down to the end of my bed and bite my feet ! 😢😢😢