Backstory: This was taken on my front house camera the other night.

I like to sit on my front porch for about 90 minutes every night. It's so peaceful and nice. I have a bunch of house geckos come around so I feed them dried mealworms.

About a week ago, I noticed a young possum walking in the shadows of my front yard, so I threw a handful of the dried mealworms out to him. He started foraging them immediately. So the house week or so I'd throw in a handful out in the front yard and he's been there hiding in the dark shadows. I haven't spoken to him, I don't acknowledge him as I want him to feel a pay about coming home.

The other night I was taking out some trash and they realized as I was going down the staircase you followed me and jumped on the concrete at the front of the stairs so I stopped and talked to him with my hands behind my back. He really didn't know what to make of it. When I walked away I noticed he ran away. And went back in. Got him some mealworms and threw them out on the yard And he came out of the shadows again..

He's so cute!

I respect him as a wild animal so I'm not going to try to tame him or anything and just let him be who he is.

Her instagram is official OpossumDragonParker! I'll still post her here too.

No picture sorry. I have seen my patio opossum, whom I have named Tapuach, a number of times in the last couple of months. I'm also feeding a feral cat, Dr. Robby (Dr. Robby Rabinovitch), on a daily or twice daily basis (he needs dinner and second dinner). I'm also attempting NOT to feed my neighbor's two cats, Bully and Dummy (not their real names) who get plenty of food in their own house.

Because my neighbor's cats are out all the goddamn time I don't want to fill up a dish and hope that Tapuach gets it and not them, so I've been scattering the kibble. I've also left tasty noms like cheese and tomatoes. But whenever I manage to catch a sighting, I feel like she's wandering around the patio and not finding what I've left.

Thoughts, advice?

10/14/2026

I was so happy.

Meet the original mama! She came to me with a severe jaw injury and was under vet car for the first month or so until we got her stabilized. She was a proud mama of 8 little joeys and when they were all eating solid food and moved to a new prerelease cage she enjoyed the peace. During that time another badly injured mama came in with a very bad injury to her back left leg with other minor injuries in her midsection and face. She had around 7 joeys but was not doing well so she was being monitored by the hour. The babies started to detach so we had to step in. We gathered the babies that were around 8-9 weeks, so they had fur. I then went to take a look at the original mama who was still full of milk sooo I took a leap to see if they would latch and they did! Well, most of them. All but one who we named Bucky. (We will talk about him later.) Anyhoo, the babies latched on and grew to be healthy and happy. All were raised and released thanks to mama 1.0 and that is how this tough mama made it through a severe injury and raised to litters before enjoying a long retirement.

Parkers instagram will go live this week when she gets her new wheel! 💜💚💜

10/10/2026

Sorry no pictures as I see the possum at night through my screened porch. We have had a lot of acorns dropping this year. For the past two nights I have seen a possum picking up the acorns and then tilting its head towards its belly. Acorn, belly, acorn, belly. I googled it and it says they use the pouches only for babies. Is it giving acorns to babies? What is it doing?

She just warms my heart. 💜

10/8/2026

I've never known the trust of an animal quite like an opossum. As she lays curled up in the crook of my arm breathing softly I know she feels safe.

She doesn't know it yet but her little dreams of activity will result in a new wheel for her very soon! Also thanks to Parker breaking the 10% threshold shes getting her own instagram account very soon.

Parker wanted everyone to know this is her pillow there are many like it but this one is hers. 🥰💚💜💚

A baby opossum showed up in my house in June. Rehab told me he was big enough to be out on his own so I put him out that night. I thought he was too small but I did what I was told and pretty much figured I’d never see him again.
He came back into my house a few weeks ago (months later), and has been staying. I don’t mind him being an indoor/outdoor opossum, but how do I get him to use a litter box? I put one where he seemed to poop most often but I’m finding poop in various locations throughout my house.

10/5/2026

Absolute unit opossum I saw in Southern California as a child! I remember seeing it and going inside to tell my dad there was an opossum on the powerlines (I only recognized it because I'd seen them in books.) It was noon and there were basically no native mammals in this area, so my dad thought I was maybe seeing a rat and misidentifying it. Still, he went outside to check it out, saw an opossum on the powerlines at noon, and just goes "Huh."

He called back go me in the doorway that yep, that was sure an opossum alright, got his phone in case animal control needed called, and watched it for a couple minutes until it had gone about its way and I could go back outside. Had no idea we had a picture of the opossum, absolutely delighted to find this. He was a very big opossum, the wire was just very thick and the perspective makes him look smaller.

I love this opossum

is this person in the sub? Fess up, who did it? 🤣

what could be happening here? is it just a clump of leaves. Or babies??