From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , Richard B.
 wrote:
>
>I use to intensely dislike the look of the opussom and ran the current
>visitor off once.  Then one night I studied it as it ate and then
>washed its white face throughly with remarkable feet  dextrous and
>realized my own prejudice was born of ignorance.

One man's pet is another man's pest. Opossums are classified as a noxious
animal here. We trap them, shoot them and poison them. See here for a
little amusement:
http://www.kiwibuz.co.nz/english/fur/fur.htm

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