11/15/2025
Winter is extremely hard on this species. The bottom of their hands and feet are skin just like ours. Imagine being barefoot in the freezing weather and snow and ice. 😞. I honestly don’t know how they survive in the USA, when every single one of their relatives live in Australia. Please be kind. Please let the have a warm place to sleep. They will not destroy your home or property. They will rid your property of dead carrion, snakes, and trash that’s been dropped. It’s our responsibility to secure our garbage cans. The Opossum. The U.S. only marsupial.
*South America does have different types of opossums too that is related to our Virginia Opossums, but it is warmer in South America so they don’t have th same issues with the cold. And adding further to those that may live in Patagonia yes, there is an opossumm that lives there that has furry feet, hands and is made a lot better to live in a very cold environment, unlike our Virginia opossums are use to. 🙄.