When I was like 3, we used to have a family of them that lived behind our house. They showed up, and my dad would feed them leftovers. So they just hung out in our back yard, and every night, they'd all come up to the back door waiting for their treat. They were really sweet from what I remember (very little).
My great aunt use to work for the Tennessee wildlife rescue (lived 5 minutes from Dollywood) and she specialized in caring for small animals so she'd always have baby opossums. We'd hand feed them and they'd crawl all over us and dangle off our arms by their tails. Once old enough they'd be taught how to hunt for food and eventually released but some would always find their way back and come say hello every night coming right up on her back porch for a treat of fruit and food scraps (raws stuff like potato skins and the like, nothing cooked)
Yea but that skunk still had the upper hand if it kept being pushed and it's life became in danger. What most don't know about skunks that don't want to spray and that is there last thing they will do to win there life. Skunks don't spray until they know there life is in true danger. This was nothing more that who got to eat whatever was there nothing more. That skunk knew his life wasn't in danger so he left let the possum have it.
@@MaxumizedI give props to the skunk for at least fighting fair and walking away with his L instead of busting out his butthole blast attack. Inner city youths could learn a lot from this skunk.
@@RyanSpruill "opossums have pretty weak jaws, low IQ's, and are soft around the edges" I bet that's what the skunk thought too before getting his ass whooped lmao
That’s the first time I’ve seen a opossum win a fight; at the same time, he was the last man standing. He didn’t play dead once and acted like that was his WWE debut. Lol
@@ellaboobella8770 Years ago, my father-in-law, who had grown up in the country, laughed so hard at my husband and me when we told him about our frightening encounter with an opossum. I had taken the garbage out and when I lifted the lid, I was met with a snarling, tooth filled face looking up from the bottom of my empty garbage can. It scared me to death and I slammed the metal lis back down in the can. I could hear him growling and hissing. Having enlisted the help of my husband we carried the can to the backyard, tipped it over and ran like heck! We thought it would jump out and attack us. Poor old guy just waddled off into the woods. How the lid got back on the can with him trapped inside I don’t know. Once my father-in-law explained we were in no danger I have looked forward to their nightly visits!
Oh my God, the skunk's attitude is hysterical. I love how calm the possum is the whole time, he just dispenses education and goes back to his food like nothing happened.
I used to use the term "street justice" when I beat someone's ass. Now I am going to refer to myself as "The Teacher" and if I ever get into another fight I will"dispense education".
Opossums also emanate a putrid smell when performing thanatosis (playing dead), so it can be said that in some way, yes, at least opossums do. (Kinda) @@brandonfoley7519
I remember rescuing four baby possums that had fallen off their mothers back while she was crossing a road. The dang things were so cute the way they clung to your fingers when you picked them up.
From the looks of it, no. Looks like opossum attacked baby skunk who was protecting the food he found. A big d**k move from opossum, literally racketeered the food from cute baby skunk :'-( and then tried to mangle him, with his sharp teeth. Angry overgrown rat.
The possum was just casually sniffing the grass and this skunk dick got all up in his face. The glowing eyes in the darkness, looking back at the skunk after he body slams him, are what makes it for me
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This is what happens behind the scenes in those Disney princess movies when the Disney princess woodland animal co-stars don't get along with each other.
Happened outside my home only the other night! It had to be that or a raccoon and it would have taken 100 bongs and another 100 hookahs going full blast at the same time to generate that much stink. Filled the entire living space for half an hour… 😮💨
It's like when you knock down a bully, your 1st instinct is to back up, then turn to see what's going on, but then you realize they bleed just as easily as you, so you stand your ground and watch the Fear in their eyes.
I love how the skunk is doing all his aggressive “Imma spray you,” stampy-stamps and the possum is just like, “fuck you I don’t care.” Any idea what they were eating that was worth all that fuss?
I know they smell horrific but that skunk IS ADORABLE. Look at how it kinda hops all around with its little stiff legs, so cute lol. His escape is the cutest. He kept doing a little jumping 180 to make sure he wasn't being followed lol
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@@sakuraflares7054I don't think he meant literal Kardashian trash rather the 'era' of Kardashian trash, which includes "reality" TV, everything you listed, spams and scams, and much more.
@searchingfornessie8410I’m from Philly and we obviously get more rats and such than opossums roaming around, but I once had an opossum just casually stroll into my room which was in the basement and walk right in front of me nearly stepping on my feet, looked up at me, nodded, and just kept moving. I nearly pissed myself, ran out the room to get my cat who was nasty, only to find out cats and opossums are very friendly. From that moment on opossums have always been cool with me simply because they act like they belong lol.
Skunks are actually adorable (so are possums), it's funny how their one defense is a stinky butt. But without their stink they would have literally nothing. They are soft, little animals, they would get snatched up too easily. If you watch a mom travelling with her little babies it is so cute!
I used to work at a daycare at a church and there was a family of skunks that lived night in the middle of the campus. In the early mornings they would play and sunbathe on the rocks but be gone by mid morning. No body else believed me becase they always hid when a lot of people were around but they always ignored me as long as I stayed quiet and on the paths. I finally took a photo of them to prove to my friends and youth group leaders that I wasn't lying. As far as I know they never tried to remove them because they never caused issues.
Lmao. The way some small creatures conduct themselves is hilarious. Skunk wanted all the smoke, opossum wanted none of it. Skunk won't quit so the opossum just grabs him and throws him to the ground. Skunk scampers away broken and defeated. Opossum casually continues to eat bugs.
probably dog food. Wild animals usually only interact like that cuz we built over their houses and killed all their food. So they are forced to all steal the same dogs food from the one guy on the block that doesn't take it inside at night.
@@ianswift3521 Did you just force a little xenophobia into a light-hearted discussion about animals? Don’t be mad at the nice immigrants just because even the women have bigger dicks than you. Edit: Look at this chomo… Dudes RU-vid profile pic is basically just a guy you’d never want to talk to or give a shit about their opinions. A real scholar and stand up guy I’m sure.
me too. the ones I've seen creep along like a turtle and if I go toward them they go limp and play dead. I saw in another comment that skunks only spray if their life is in danger, so it didn't spray.
@@Cleanandgood I didn't know that skunks only spray when they feel that their life is win danger. Thanks for the info. When I see skunks I give them a lot of room and get the heck out of the area, lol. 👍
@@Cleanandgood I dunno about that. I got blasted by a skunk that was so far away from me i didn't even see him. I was riding my bike around sunrise and had my front light on, didn't even see anything. I heard a faint pfffft noise and smelled skunk, but I figured I had just ridden past skunk roadkill. I stopped at the upcoming four way, smell got stronger. Thought it was weird, shrugged it off. Kept riding and the smell went away. Stopped again, smell came back. I got a sinking feeling in my gut. Kept riding. Next stop, smell came back. Hopped off my bike and the little jerk had sprayed my pedals, chain, and derailleur. And my legs and feet. Had to spend a full day washing my bike and completely strip the chain to get the smell off. Shoes had to be thrown out. Pants had to be washed several times before the smell was gone. I have no idea how a skunk I never even saw, and was in no way close enough to hit, could have possibly thought his life was in danger. 😂
@@Snuzzled I mean, imagine if a huge metal machine with an animal at the top of the food chain (humans) was riding toward you at high speed, many parts of it spinning at once, maybe seeming like it was running to try and chase something. Could've seen you getting closer and closer, passed it while it was in a bush or something, and that's when it struck before you could strike. The skunk probably had no way to know you didn't see it and decided "better safe than sorry" and got you with the cloud o' poison stench. An animal can't really afford assuming we don't know they're there, since in the wild many things can smell or hear other animals and not need sight to attack.
@@intellectualesemv Food changes the equation, for sure. Also, this looks like a baby skunk. The opossum might have realised she didn't have her weapon dialled in just yet.
And that's why sometimes you really don't want to keep fucking with the quiet guy that's just trying to be polite. Kinda reminds me of Japan in 1941. Or as they say, "start shit get hit"
This reminds me of a story my friend told when he was a kid walking through a park at night. He and some random guy immediately walked toward each other and began to fight. After the fight, they got up and continued to walk in opposite directions without saying anything to each other.
@@denniskelley8974 we've got a possum that doesn't even run away anymore. We walk out to feed the cats and he just stands there with the cats like one of them
Oh he was hurt bad. Those nasty diseased ridden teeth went right through its skin. And it was deep. And then to be slammed like that. It messed it up. Very highly likely that the skunk died in pain and an awful death due to infection.
@@nonamerequired55555 I was thinking the same thing but maybe it was just musculoskeletal bruising. I think if the possum got skunks neck right there he coulda maimed it tho
That was SO fast! Señor Smelly had to let let his brain catch up for a second!😂 I like to think the moment he finally understood what just happened was the moment he paused like, "Huh...Oh! Right." and decided to take a hike. 😂
It was at that point that the little possum couldn't take being ridiculed by the mean skunk anymore. And so, left him with a very, long lasting impression. "I'm sure you won't do that again!" The possum snidely remarked.
This cracked me up...omg...that was the funniest thing I've seen ever from a trail cam... Lol. Thanks so much for sharing. I needed that boost if ''''the Feels goods'''
