If a family of opossums has already claimed their territory, wait until the mother and her offspring leave the den about two hours after dark, and then close the opening with netting or straw.

Opossums don’t dig their own dens but live in existing burrows or in spaces underneath your home, porch, or shed, says Mengak. You may see the animal leaving its den, or you may smell a foul ...

A hungry opossum with an unrivaled sweet tooth is on the road to recovery after eating an entire chocolate cake from Costco, an animal rehabilitation center posted. "This Virginia opossum was ...

An opossum with a sweet tooth was hospitalized after it annihilated an entire Costco chocolate mousse cake that was left outside on the porch of a Nebraska real estate agent’s home this week.

The "choco-holic" opossum turned out to also be dealing with lead toxicity, according to those who treated her Nebraska Wildlife Rehab/Instagram It's hard to play dead when the sugar rush kicks in.

the organization wrote. “This Virginia opossum was admitted today after reportedly devouring an ENTIRE Costco chocolate cake.” In the post are two photos that paint a vivid picture.

Opossums are slow-moving, so it will seek safety up a tree, in a brush pile, or if a retreat cannot be reached, it may play "possum," that is, pretend death. They are relatively harmless to people ...

“He said, ‘I’m not doing this — there’s an opossum out there,’” recalled Doggett, 55. She thought he was joking, but it turned out the opossum was very real. It also loved chocolate ...

A real estate agent in Omaha, Nebraska, recently got an unexpected houseguest – a hungry opossum who ate the entire tuxedo chocolate mousse cake she recently bought from Costco. Kim Doggett ...