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It's that time of year: Keep an eye out for baby opossums! Here are three of the more than 60 orphaned baby opossums currently in care at the Wildlife Rescue Center. These two boys and one girl were admitted on April 8th after their mother was hit by a car. Since then, they've doubled in size and graduated from a ten-gallon aquarium to a "scout cage" with more room to explore. They've decided they'd rather sleep outside of their hide box for now. | Wildlife Rescue Center

Marigold our ambassador opossum has decided to use the cricket enrichment container as a litter box! How clever! Marigold was the tiniest joey in her litter, because of her petite size and extremely friendly nature, we decided to use her for education. People tend to think Opossums are unclean and disease ridden but it is actually just the opposite. Opossums are extremely clean. They are opportunistic scavengers who happily clean up after themselves and everyone else. Opossums will eat almost an