[js1138]

Even Manhattan has vicious wild animals roaming the streets.

[goldstategop]

I've seen an occasional opposum crossing the street here now and then. They're easily mistaken for a rat.

[ikka]

Even Manhattan has vicious wild animals roaming the streets.

Yes, but they are usually wearing do-rags and have their oversized pants barely hanging on.

They also have opossums.

[RightWingAtheist]

I lived in southern Ontario, which is full of opossums, yet I never once spotted one. I did see some in New Zealand, however, where, without any predators, they are a real pest. The NZ government, which is one of the most conservation-minded in the world (and quite resonably so, when you consider the uniqueness and fragility of its wildlife) gives citizens the right to shoot as many of them as they damn please (they aren't native to New Zealand anyways, and have been partly responsible for the near-extinction of several bird species).

[theDentist]

Even Manhattan has vicious wild animals roaming the streets.

Really? I thought she spent spare time in Chappaqua

[dfwgator]

Marsupial on 35th Street

Sounds like the title to an old Bob Dylan song.

[Constitution Day]

*shaking my head*

Yankees. What else can you say.

[VadeRetro]

I don't believe even idiot New Yorkers don't know a 'possum. Sad.

[balrog666]

Serve with red wine.

[PallMal]

Amazing why these Manhattanites didn't recognize what this animal was.

You see them all the time in Queens, either walking between houses at night, or as road kill on the Grand Central Parkway.

[Allegra]

Next thing you know, we'll have badgers roaming the streets.

Badger, badger, badger, badger...mushroom, mushrooom...

SNAKE!

[avg_freeper]

It's Speak!

[AnAmericanMother]

LOL! Possum - Yankee. Yankee - Possum.

You realize I hope that by presenting the Yankee to the Possum, you are establishing the Yankee as lower in social rank than the Possum . . . which may well be true, but Possums are pretty low on the social scale.

Sunday night my Labrador Retriever went nuts in the back yard - hackles up, barking like a fiend, wound up diving under the deck. There are a couple of drainage pipes under there, and she wound up emerging with a large possum in her mouth. She gave it a good hard shake before dropping it on command, and of course it just lay there like a possum. I took her inside and washed out her mouth (boy did she stink of possum!) and examined her for any bites (none - she's a whole lot quicker than a possum). Went outside, Mr. Possum was still lying there in a heap, my kids suggested that we bury it . . . "it's not breathing" . . . but I told them to let it lay overnight and we'd check in the morning. Next morning bright and early my son put on his mud boots and went out to take a look, came back in and announced cheerily, "Mister Possum's in Alpharetta by now!"

I still think they're nasty. Lots of entertainment for the dog though. This morning she followed its track all over the yard with great excitement, hoping she could catch up. Too late, Miss Shelley!

[azhenfud]

Here, kitty, kitty, kitty! Here, kitty, kitty, kitty!

[sheik yerbouty]

They've found a coyote or two over the years as well.

[talleyman]

Marsupial on 35th Street

Great title - LOL!