When I looked up stuff on Possums I found out they cannot carry rabies and they eat rodents and likely anything else they can catch that creeps and crawls.
I found my old thread. Somewhere in the old thread I think I posted some vids and one has a Possum and a Raccoon and the Possum takes a little bit/nip of the Raccoon. If go t youtube you can see vids of all kinds of animals fighting to include Possums fighting other animals.
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/off-topic-discussion/377370-adventures-swamp-girl-virginia-opossum.html?highlight=swamp
There was some sort of tussle under my house and when I woke up the next morning my one part of my house smelled like Skunk.
Have smelled Skunk outside of my house several times a year but never have seen one and none of my Cats have been sprayed.
In fact My Cats seem to run away from other critters.
The other critters show up in twilight conditions or dark. An odd thing I saw was at 10 in the morning while I was walking in the neighborhood which is all houses. A smallish orange male cat walked across the street and about the time he made the Curb a Possum from the other side of the street came following behind him.
Odd to see any Possum out in the open and especially in broad daylight. They mystery is why the Possum is following the Cat? I mean are they buddies?
Another time my house stank I found something had killed a Possum under my house.
I finally bought the new vents for around the bottom of the house and blocked off the opening you can crawl under my house at to keep the critters out.