This is technical is a sense. How does an object bigger than the hole
get stuck in the hole and then get out?


 The other night my miniature Dachshund, Sadie (all of 7 lbs), got after
a possum in our back yard. She kept barking and barking for a long time.
Finally I went out to see what she was doing. She had this possum
(slightly larger the her) stuck in the chain link fence. The possum had
somehow gotten it's head, shoulders and front legs through one of the 3"
parallelogram openings in the fence and could go no further. I grabbed
the possum's tail and pulled as hard as I could and could not move the
possum at all. I finally decided to put the possum out of it's misery,
shot it in the forehead with my pellet gun. The possum slowly relaxed and
apparently died.

The next morning I went out there to see about removing the possum and
it was GONE! Not a trace of blood, wads of hair, nothing. The ground on
each side of the fence was scratched up considerably indicating it had
been using it's feet in an effort to get out. I have to assume it
somehow managed to get out of the 3" parallelogram opening in the chain
link fence.

Sadie, as small as she is, has not been able to get out of the yard via
the chain link fence openings - though she has managed to escape through
various other openings. (I think I have finally fixed all of them) She
wants terribly to get out and get to the creek bed behind our house and
go after the coons, possums, skunks, etc. and has actually caught and
killed two squirrels, a small coon and seriously injured a skunk
(amazingly without getting sprayed) in our yard.

How on earth did the possum manage to get stuck in the fence as it was
and even more puzzling, how did it get out after being shot???? I do not
think any other animal was involved.


Jay
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