Welcome to Possums

i thought someone was banging on my window and looked outside to find this dude 😭

The other boy came back again tn and he was making this chattering noise like when your really cold n your teeth chatter, im hoping the cold is all it is and its nothing else. We are also concerned that the lump under his chin could be a possible abscess. If it is any idea on how to go abt it? U can also see his eyes reacting but im pretty sure thats just bc of my flash, i dont like using it for long periods of time since ik it can hurt their eyes and be very uncomfortable but if i dont u literally cant see them

Tmr morning i will swap out the blankets and towels as well as add in something that they can actually crawl into to keep them warm

I miss having little gremlins like possums around all ive had the past few years is a shitton of foster kittens but i think im gonna switch back to possies soon, as difficult as they are i really really wanna get my hours with them logged for a proper license so i cant get into legal trouble. But its breeding season soon and i got abt 4 who stick around my house and i bet ill end up finding some babies in the next year that ill have to raise

Mr chonk was very polite when eating his walnuts from my fingers and never nipped me on accident even once 🙃 he always grabbed it as gently as possible hopefully this handfeeding will help prove that my hands are safe to him n not tryna hurt him

I wouldve gotten a petting video but he was incredibly too stubborn to come out of his house and thats fine i dont blame him i woke up extremely late after eating dinner so it was like 10 at night n he was mid dinner nap when i woke him and ofc my phone once again wasnt charge but wtv tmrs another night and another chance🩷

It wasnt in this video bc when it happened ofc my phone was dead and upstairs but i gave him a small spoonful of tuna, and he immediately went after it also let me pet him on his head with the spoon when he ate it all😋 but bc i wanted to get it on vid i charged my phone to like 10% and went back down to give him another spoon so i could actually get it on video and this was one of the videos i got ❤️❤️

Imma start this off by we need some names for my porch possies if not all then atleast this one boy since he seems the friendliest.

Secondly we are making great progress together. I have been trying to gain their trust for months since they were little babies and this big boy is making the most progress. Since they started coming around I first started off with opening the door and making a clicking noise with my mouth, everything to announce my presence but I wouldn't go any further. Day after day I eventually started opening the door more and more sticking my hand out waving it around saying hi etc. Getting him comfortable with me and that my movements shouldn't scare him. Recently he has started letting me fully step out onto the porch and close the door while he sits on the cat house munching on his snacks or cat food. But tonight we went even a little bit further and I was greeted with the noisiest of sniffs when I stuck my hand out closer to him! And not just one i got MULTIPLE SNIFFS!! He's starting to feel genuinely comfortable around me and I'm hoping at some point he will be okay with me petting him occasionally while he eats and hangs around. I'm fully aware of the capability of him biting but I know unless I make extremely sudden movements or suddenly grab at him, which I will never do. Then there is a very unlikely chance that he won't bite and even that he's more likely to just Bolt then bite. I can't wait till the day I can finally touch his fluff because oh my God he is so fluffy!

This is Fred and our whole family adores him. ♥️

Such a cutie pie 🥧