[Rhodes22-list] why City folk Shouldn't move to the Country

[Thena Carville]

My daughter found a tiny baby outside and saved it from being eaten by our
cats so we raised it for a couple of weeks till it started looking cute and
I knew it was time for it to go...they can grow to be quite large and there
were several photos online (15 or more years ago)of people in California who
raised them as pets...Houdini (he could escape from any cage I could
find/rig/rerig)started turning the most beautiful shade of silver and
fluffing up like crazy when we finally dropped him off with a nice but crazy
woman on the west bank of New Orleans...she had twenty or so in varying
sizes in her house (in cages and definitely not potty trained)...Houdini
hissed all the time, but he didn't mean it...he was just tiny and
frightened...don't think I would go NEAR a larger one...Houdini could fit on
just your fingers when we found him and he filled your hand when we dropped
him off...grew amazingly fast...don't think I could ever eat one...good
thing I'm not around cows...
Thena




-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Caesar Paul
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 3:52 PM
To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] why City folk Shouldn't move to the Country

Joe,
 
To my knowledge, they never have been friendly.
 
Where I grew up we eat possum, and its quite a delicacy in the wild meat
category.  We go hunting for possum; it's called manicou in Trinidad &
Tobago.
 
I can tell you from experience that its finger-licking good.
 
Caesar
 
 


--- On Sun, 11/16/08, Joe Babb <joe.babb at comcast.net> wrote:

From: Joe Babb <joe.babb at comcast.net>
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] why City folk Shouldn't move to the Country
To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 6:47 AM

Elle,
Thanks.  I really needed that laugh.  I grew up in the country and 
actually had a possum for a pet once. 
They really are not very friendly!
Joe
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