Calling them big rats is fairly accurate from an on hands perspective .

They'll attack and dismember live pets so be wary around them .

One climbed into a tree as my buddy was cleaning his canary's cage and grabbed the canary, ripped its wing off and began eating it as the canary screamed .

Hard to kill too ~ I had to beat one to death in my back yard once, I had a sharp edged shovel and that bastard looked like hamburger yet refused to die .

A small cat sized one is a small one, the one I killed weighted at least 25 pounds .

When I worked in Air Support, we'd fill an old Bell 204 with cages full of possums, raccoons and other trapped animals and fly them up into the canyons and set them free .

The baby possums look ever so cute but sitting right next to a caged, female and seriously pissed off/scared possum for an hour isn't much fun .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better