Used to be a semi common food here. Folk would catch them, feed them table scraps for a week before cooking to get the wild taste out. Like raccoons often cooked w sweet potatoes to sop up the grease not dipped out in cooking.❤
They were introduced in the 1800s to start a fur trade here in New Zealand. Since then possums have been causing significant damage to the New Zealand eco system. Possums will eat flightless birds, eggs, sprouts of native bush, lizards, etc. Possums are also one of the main animals that spread tuberculosis here in New Zealand.
