Possums

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

Well, I consider any animal whose destiny in life is to be run over by a car a
ROADENT!!!

Teddy

MBlanchrd@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 01/01/2000 4:22:57 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> ridecamp-d-request@endurance.net writes:
>
> << broke my heart but not my husband's who was tired of sleeping
>  with a rodent--no not me--the opossum) and had a pet gray squirrel >>
>
> Forgive me for possibly starting another unrelated thread, but opossums are
> NOT RODENTS. They're not even closely related. Possums are marsupials and
> co-existed with the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous, long before rodents even
> considered evolving!
> And you may want to reconsider keeping them as pets. They've been fingered as
> carriers of the protozoan that causes EPM in horses.
> Michelle Blanchard
> MBlanchrd@aol.com
>
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