Possums are a good ally to have in your yard — they kill an estimated 5,000 ticks a season and catch and eat cockroaches, rats and mice. They are also resistant to snake venom, the National ...

Another way to be considerate to opossums who might appear in your yard in any season, according to Karvonen? “Be aware of what your pets are doing. Since they ‘play dead,’ opossums don’t ...

But they also have a taste for open compost piles, trash bins, and the occasional garden plant, which may prompt you to want ...

The marsupial looked a "little distressed," per the woman who found the animal in her Gretna yard ... with opossums because I know with dogs it's poisonous and thought this would not be good ...