Well, after talking to my sister, I decided to take them to the near by, (6.6miles) state park to let them go, since it is a wild life sanctuary and all... Wrong! They said we couldn't turn them loose there. Does that make any kind of sense to anyone? Why not turn them loose in a park where they won't bother anyone, and they will be protected? We ended up turning them loose along our back fence where there are a few trees, and they are far enough away that hopefully, they won't come closer, and bother us. Here are pictures of them being turned lose. My 4.5 year old grandson took the one of my husband propping open the trap.
She sure had a mess of babies hanging all over her. The pictures didn't come out in the order I wanted, and I don't know how to rearrange them. Since she had been in the trap over night, as soon as she came out of the trap, she headed right for water, drank her fill, and headed for the trees, as fast as she could waddle, carrying her babies with her.
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Is that a rat?
No, that is an opossum, the only North American marsupial. They have a pouch sort of like a kangaroo, except it opens from nose to tail, instead of side to side.
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