Thread: I need some advice about an injured Possum

Just a followup.

I didn’t see the injured possum for about a week and thought the worst, but it turned up again.

Tonight ( this morning ) I got a good look at it and while it is missing a lot of fur around it’s head, the injuries seem to be healing well and it was feeding with another adult and the young one.

So hopefully, it will continue to do well.

Thanks for all the info.

Cheers, Tim.

Driveafe,Sorry but that last line in your last comment was a bit Short.
Thanks for caring about our wildlife.
cheers
Paul

Originally Posted by drivesafe

...it is missing a lot of fur around it’s head, the injuries seem to be healing well and it was feeding with another adult and the young one.

My experience with these things is that it takes approx. 100 days for a full fur to regrow from being fully lost. It'll be a lighter colour until the molt happens if it does in your parts.


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Hi Windsock and thanks for that info.

I was unaware that the fur would grow back, so thats good news and the possum has all summer to recover it’s covering.

Sad news, we managed to care for the possum and it was doing really well but it appeared to be almost blind.

It was still doing well as it recovered and got quite friendly, allowing us to hand feed it almost every night.

But we found it huddled in a corner of our back veranda this morning and it was so badly scratched up and so exhausted, we had no problem gathering it up and putting it in a box.

We took it to our local vet but the best thing they could do for it was to put it down.

Shame.

Originally Posted by drivesafe

Sad news, we managed to care for the possum and it was doing really well but it appeared to be almost blind.

It was still doing well as it recovered and got quite friendly, allowing us to hand feed it almost every night.

But we found it huddled in a corner of our back veranda this morning and it was so badly scratched up and so exhausted, we had no problem gathering it up and putting it in a box.

We took it to our local vet but the best thing they could do for it was to put it down.

Shame.

That's very sad... but you did the right thing by that poor animal. I'm also really sorry that I didn't see this post when you first posted it as I spent about 13 years rehabilitating wildlife and I read some of the advice and 'knowledge' you were given in absolute horror. Good on you for taking the time to care about her, we need more people like you in this world.

Hi Sue and thanks.

It may have been a god send in one respect in that if we had not found the possum till tomorrow, because of the storm coming, we would most likely not be able to get out to get to the vet.

One bit of good news is that it's young one turned up for a feed late last night.

You big Softy...

- There's been some magpies around here who've tamed the humans in our house...and their offspring are continuing the training...