Opie the Opossum

My dog Toby is really a daschund (I don't know if I am spelling that correctly). Someone said once that dashchunds (maybe if I spell it differently whenever, I will are right one of the times) were originally bred to hunt and kill gophers. It totally is sensible in my opinion. He is my protector. Even when most of our kids could care less what I am doing, Toby is following me around (to be fair, he might be trying to find me to drop food that he can snag).

Anyway, yesterday I permit him to over to pee any time before going to bed and he didn't appear in and I heard a racket of barking and snarling outside my bedroom door. I went to take a look (and to generate him be quiet ahead of the police, FBI, CIA and neighborhood watch were called) and I saw he had a massive (okay, I exaggerate, an extremely, huge) possum as part of his jaws and the man was throwing it around just like a rag doll. I immediately thought of rabies. He gets his shots regularly just for this very reason. So now, to add to the thunderous noise in my backyard, I started screaming at him "You're gonna get rabies from that thing! Drop it now!" He, needless to say, ignored me completely and tossed the one thing even more. I know I should love every one of God's creatures, but I find possums really repugnant. I apologize to anyone who thinks they are cute. And, by the way, you ought to seek a specialist.

So there I am, wrestling having a dog who is wrestling with a possum. Someone must have gotten it on film. I finally got him far from it and shoved him inside. Now is when you need to inform your children to avoid reading. But I will say, no cute, fuzzy animals were harmed on this story. However, really, really ugly ones were. I went in the market to look (carefully) in the possum. It was toast. I could not bring myself to throw it within the garbage at 10 pm. So I attended bed.

This morning Toby could barely contain himself he wanted to go outside so bad. I was not fooled into thinking his bladder was that full. No dummy, moi. So I went outside and low and behold - the possum was gone! Either Harry Potter located visit and transfigured it into an ivy leaf or, it genuinely wasn't dead. Possum removal Boronia guess "playing possum" isn't just a vintage saying. So, all's well that ends well.

Ode to Opie

There once was a hideous creature Who, really having to pee, sure That he was alone, He strayed faraway from home, And my dog rearranged his features.