ORIGINAL: Ol JohnnyBoy
On two separate occasions in the past 3-4 months I have driven up to two different opossums early in the morning around first light. Both were walking in circles with their heads turned. That was the strangest thing I've seen. I mean you can literally walk right up to em and they still just walk in a circle with that head looking up and turned to the side. Anybody else ever seen this? Is this normal opossum behavior. Were they sick? Should I have killed'em? Gosh those things are ugly
They definitely sound sick,'possums can carry rabies,distemper and a couple of other diseases.As far as just shooting them,I would say don't do it,I don't know your game laws,should have called C/O,wildlife biologist,or animal control.They would have wanted to know about the sick animals,so they could track any disease outbreaks.