Luna the Awesome Opossum

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Today we're taking a more in-depth look at Virginia Opossums with our newly-named Wildlife Ambassador opossum, Luna.
Watch her enjoy her lunch, and learn why these marsupials are so valuable to our yards and neighborhoods.

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  • @froggoesjump2185
    @froggoesjump21852 жыл бұрын

    She eats better than me. I want these ladies looking after me.

  • @jon420
    @jon42011 ай бұрын

    I am an Opossum rehabber and this is an excellent presentation. Thank you for raising awareness of these amazing animals. I have an opossum ambassador in my home who had no fear of people whatsoever to an absolute fault and as a result, Cooper shares a living space with a French bulldog. ❤ Thank you so much and good job! Luna is stunningly beautiful ❤🎉🎉

  • @maryschaeffer944
    @maryschaeffer9443 жыл бұрын

    I'm from the south we call them possums. Luna is cute as a button. Thank you for your service of taking care of animals. They deserve it. PEACE 🕊️

  • @ThePathoftheWhiteRose
    @ThePathoftheWhiteRose4 жыл бұрын

    What a pretty girl!

  • @amlidsatierf5455
    @amlidsatierf545510 ай бұрын

    Beautiful Luna🥰🥰🥰

  • @janicemmerriman5551
    @janicemmerriman55518 ай бұрын

    I've had so me many wild oppsumes try to hide and live in the house with me. In old days in 1940's 1950's when screen doors were not as much people would talk about how oppsumes would try and live in the house with u many of them if they could. There like dogs and cats, they want to get out and explore like our own human kids and ourselves but they want to come back in many of them. They are needy creatures. And yes they do smile like people ya'll doing a great job there

  • @jbirdyhome-4050
    @jbirdyhome-4050 Жыл бұрын

    People are wrongly afraid of these sweet, gentle, shy creatures. They are harmless, good to have around. I have been feeding one or two opossums for the past two years and I am sad to hear that their lifespan is so short. They are just sweet, shy little things. They are so funny when they eat grapes. I hear them CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP. i wish they were not afraid of me. I like to watch and listen to them eat. They are so funny. They do have such an acute sense of smell.. I forgot to put out their grapes one evening and they were scritching around the plastic bag asking for their nightly treats.

  • @lisakovacs4831
    @lisakovacs48313 жыл бұрын

    My Harry was the best pet I have ever had. He lived with me for 4 years. I love them more than anything. I have had a lamb, horse dogs cats, they are amazing!!!!! Little dolls ,potty trained is simple.

  • @uwlimesub6945
    @uwlimesub69453 жыл бұрын

    She's ADORABLE 💖💖💋💖💋💋 They are wonderful animals!

  • @romywu4507
    @romywu45074 жыл бұрын

    Luna is very cute!

  • @SonicBoone56
    @SonicBoone563 жыл бұрын

    She's so cute!

  • @denisery1120
    @denisery11203 жыл бұрын

    Cute little teddy bear looking critter

  • @happyinparis
    @happyinparis Жыл бұрын

    I have Lyme Disease with co-infections and I love oppossums. They are welcome at my house.

  • @AIRFGC
    @AIRFGC Жыл бұрын

    4:55 "only eats broccoli as a last resort" Same 😴

  • @jasonb421
    @jasonb4212 жыл бұрын

    I have a possum (opossum) named Mars… I also had his brother who’s name is Jupiter but male possums don’t get along with each other so once they were about a year old I had to give up Jupiter to an animal rescue. But they had both been habituated to humans when I got them which is why I kept them (and still have Mars). I’ve taken care of other possums so I know what is required to keep and care for them. They do belong in the wild so its definitely best to bring them to a possum rehabilitation center if found. But I thought Luna was a great name cause mine is Mars.

  • @ganboldbayantsagaan2560
    @ganboldbayantsagaan25603 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for taking such a good care for the possum. ❤❤❤

  • @theantichrist4267
    @theantichrist42679 ай бұрын

    If I was fortunate enough to have an opossum ,like that I wouldn’t give it up . I would provide it with love and always give it good food .

  • @sk8ercaligirl
    @sk8ercaligirl3 жыл бұрын

    Love Luna 💖😍

  • @deafnoisemarine6294
    @deafnoisemarine62943 жыл бұрын

    This is easily one of the most informative opossum videos out there

  • @jlebron
    @jlebron3 жыл бұрын

    I love my Lily...my baby, my spoiled one, it's a love that can't explain... Good job girls! They're more clean them cats and dogs!

  • @jeanyves5380

    @jeanyves5380

    3 жыл бұрын

    heu, no, it's a wild animal not your baby.

  • @sunflowerseed2751

    @sunflowerseed2751

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jeanyves5380 cats and dogs are wild too if never petted. I have 4 Opossums and all love petting and cuddling.

  • @jeanyves5380

    @jeanyves5380

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@sunflowerseed2751 Yesss and petted thez are almost as mutch as humans.

  • @roxanneweichinger9318
    @roxanneweichinger93183 жыл бұрын

    👍Good video!

  • @BirdWhisperer46
    @BirdWhisperer462 жыл бұрын

    Keep her as a pet. Even one day in captivity and then thrown back into the wild is murder and they only live 2 years in the wild.

  • @trankt54155
    @trankt541552 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful.....so pretty..

  • @TennessseTimmy
    @TennessseTimmy2 жыл бұрын

    Wow I learned so much and that's such a great cute little opossum, wooooow

  • @CowboyBebop444
    @CowboyBebop444 Жыл бұрын

    Awww

  • @JudithWright-ms4gp
    @JudithWright-ms4gp Жыл бұрын

    How sweetv❤

  • @rennierad
    @rennierad2 жыл бұрын

  • @G56AG
    @G56AG3 жыл бұрын

    I have always heard that the name opossum in the native language means white face, which fits the animal better since they almost always have a white face but the body is usually gray in color.

  • @uwlimesub6945

    @uwlimesub6945

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same here...White face.

  • @lisakovacs4831
    @lisakovacs48313 жыл бұрын

    Good name!!!😇😇😇

  • @tarrahbarker24
    @tarrahbarker246 ай бұрын

    I have two possum's. Bella followed everywhere. Smurf had gotten about 8" long. I was 2am standing on my patio wren l felt her going around me and l said your home. There smart she was as tame as Bella l had 4 months. She didn't have the balanced diet with all the vitamins so her eyes buldged out on the sides looking a little creepy if you don't love animals. Possums don't play dead they faint they're scared of everything! I Released 7 with nestling boxes.

  • @lisakovacs4831
    @lisakovacs48313 жыл бұрын

    Angel 😇🎀❤️❤️

  • @ordinaryman2299
    @ordinaryman22992 жыл бұрын

    they are very cute little critters, to bad they dont live very long ?

  • @damamae950
    @damamae9503 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for not allowing this opossum not to become obese. Make sure she gets enough protein. If you haven't already, you should treat her aggressively for parasites. They are intelligent but mainly in terms of remembering where things are in their ranges. They don't live more than a few years if captive .... Very short lived for size. Make no mistake, they carry a heavy parasite load.

  • @whalesong999

    @whalesong999

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes. When I lived in the Ozarks, I raised a few orphaned opossums as well as treating some adults who came my way for fleas, lice, and internal worms. Some would come back and show that they were blooming from the care, their fur and skin getting much healthier. Never had a problem with diet since they're omnivores and liked their diet of cat kibble, some grapes, apple and banana bits. They took to "litter training" easily and had the run of the house after a few days of being caged. They prosper with freedom to roam, caging became depressive in what I saw.

  • @janicemmerriman5551
    @janicemmerriman55518 ай бұрын

    I rasied many oppsumes but I never made a ambassador thing. I kept a few of them because they loved me and humans and more the marrier because like babies they loved the attention from people getting held by strangers pictures taken with them everything about attention so they didn't go to the wild. Some just love to be babied. But a lot of wild animals rasied loves and wants to stay were they are loved and babied.

  • @josephbarr4468
    @josephbarr44682 жыл бұрын

    thanks!

  • @jeangroelz9210
    @jeangroelz92103 жыл бұрын

    They LOVE dry cat food. They also are quick when grooming. Fun to watch. I can always tell when one comes into my garage. They stink in the wild due to what they eat. And leave smelly poop next to the cat's litter box.

  • @malum4342
    @malum43423 жыл бұрын

    Симпатяга!

  • @janicemmerriman5551
    @janicemmerriman55518 ай бұрын

    Where did you get your tweezers. Someone took mine and I haven't been able to find anymore, they where just like yours your feeding with.

  • @janicemmerriman5551
    @janicemmerriman555110 ай бұрын

    Where did you get your tweezers.i had some exactly like that but they got misplaced or stolen and I haven't been able to find any like that anymore. I used them all the time.

  • @svitlanadegtyar439
    @svitlanadegtyar4393 жыл бұрын

    This year I have 3 posoom in my garden. One of them I found dead 😕 maybe he was old.

  • @johnparton92
    @johnparton922 жыл бұрын

    OSSUM POSSUM

  • @prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010
    @prestoncheapbtheadphoneste30102 жыл бұрын

    Didn’t know they have, whiskers. 🙂 guess all of us have whiskers.

  • @kathychildress18
    @kathychildress183 жыл бұрын

    I've never seen them aggressive

  • @yvonnekostermans6356

    @yvonnekostermans6356

    10 ай бұрын

    They can and do bite. Not fun with 50 teeth

  • @1573elleinad
    @1573elleinad4 ай бұрын

    Is she still alive?

  • @sunflowerseed2751
    @sunflowerseed27513 жыл бұрын

    Why the tongs and gloves? I have 4 and we never treat them like they are vicious infected or whatever your reasons.

  • @sunflowerseed2751
    @sunflowerseed27513 жыл бұрын

    Why the Gloves?

  • @ordinaryman2299
    @ordinaryman2299 Жыл бұрын

    its too bad they dont live very long they would make cool pets, and i think they are nocturnal so locking it in a cage at night could go either way, either it will adapt to being in a cage at night or it will be a little distressed, since it's natural instincts would be suppressed by locking it in a cage at night when it is most active and wants to prowl around all night like in the wild ?

  • @victorsmith4968
    @victorsmith49683 жыл бұрын

    Where is my water

  • @davidpavely4539
    @davidpavely45392 жыл бұрын

    You don't need gloves

  • @Scarlett404

    @Scarlett404

    Ай бұрын

    Regardless gloves are protocol

  • @jari2018
    @jari20182 жыл бұрын

    So she's been treated like a tasmanian devil ... with gloves and a stick

  • @reign6of6e6terror
    @reign6of6e6terror3 жыл бұрын

    These animal arent pets and if time people dont feed them proper. 90% feed to many sweet fruits (grapes) , meat not with bones ,not insects how beatles crickets worms , they overfeed with eggs and one day chicks,so that they would crosseyed and sick, her tails getting big ,her ears flopping foreward and later became neurological tics or MBD😔 (Eggs and chicks are good but not every day ,than they are to highcholesterol . Snails and mices are very good,too

  • @jeanyves5380
    @jeanyves53803 жыл бұрын

    Hope you freed her.

  • @pmd7771969
    @pmd77719696 күн бұрын

    Possums don't live long it may be there diet

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