Opposum acting Strangely
11-15-2007, 07:02 PM
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Typical Buck
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: South Louisiana
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Opposum acting Strangely
On two separate occasions in the past 3-4 months I have driven up to two different opposums 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 opposum behavior. Were they sick? Should I have killed'em? Gosh those things are ugly
11-18-2007, 09:47 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 92
RE: Opposum acting Strangely
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
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
11-22-2007, 06:09 AM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: wisconsin
Posts: 1,061
RE: Opposum acting Strangely
Its pretty common to think they can get rabies or distemper.Truth is that these are viruses,and viruses need minimum temps. grinners are a few degrees short of the minimum. It does sound like distemper, but may be acting that way from a brain injury.
