Possum

Another series of ACTUAL good captivity owners and their accounts

@wafflesopossum.bsky.social
@itsamesesame on yt and insta
@Penelopeopossum on yt
@Prosciuttothepossum on yt and insta
@Wild_by_nurture on insta
@wildliferescuestl.bsky.social
and theres more i probably dont know about!!!

Same account as before by the way. It is not impossible to have a captive kept opossum to be at a good health and weight with enough restrictions to their diet. These babies are far too overweight you can quite literally see their legs unable to support them under this account on several occasions

The difference is kinda painfully obvious here. Reminder opossums with those fleshy bits over their eyes are opossums suffering from blindness or pain because of the major pressure, older opossums should be looking like the first image.

Think I am gonna make a neelydollyleah saga, because people need proper education for opossums and she is not one of them, considering everything... Genuinely I just ask her to be more caring to her senior critters and stop treating their suffering as cute or clickbait

comments are not helpful either,, and also just, very few… Like, hello??? Is this lil critter ok??

TW: Tail de-gloving

And can I just ask, is that baby ok??? Neelydollyleah literally shows a clip of a joey with a clearly degloved tail and we do not see it again. Please someone look into this and see if this lil baby is ok!!!

Another reminder this is NOT ok! These lil babies are insanely overfed, they are NOT supposed to struggle to even just blink!

Yep, she does not seem intent in giving them a good full life. I can assure that healthy senior opossums DO NOT look like this. And there’s such a stark difference between what she feeds joeys and grown adults.

Actually decent food to GARBAGE. It is awful.

And well, opossums are loved by the internet. But it’s always these opossums in worse conditions for life, unable to move or care for themselves. When there is SO many other content creators with older opossums in a happy weight and size.

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Picture of dolly with an older adult opossum in the forefront of the frame

She has treadmills, clearly a huge ranch, has harnesses and leashes for them, etc. But why is it that almost always when there is a fully grown opossum its this overweight? Did some deep digging and found one post of a decently older possum in good health. ONE.

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Her commenting to people insisting they get a good diet when she posts videos of them getting cheese treats or clearly chunks of hamburger. And the thing is. She has a lot of tools at her disposal to treat them well that she has posted herself.

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Comment section of a neelydollyleah post with the topmost comment writing: “Adorable! But you need to change their diet! The eyes are a dead giveaway!” Neelydollyleah replies under: “I know, they were all over weight seniors”

Comment section under a neelydollyleah post. Top comment writes: “Please please fix their diets! Their eyes are not upposed to look like this OMG! Please STOP!” Neelydollyleah replies: “I have had a few over weight opossums. As they age when in captivity they tend to gain weight even on a very strict diet. I will see many nonreleasable ambassador opossums with fat eyes as they get older! I can promise you all the opossums I’ve ever had the joy of care for were incredibly happy healthy and loved.” and a smiling face with hearts emoji The user of the original comment replied: “Okay” with a sad face emoji

Comment writing: “I’ve been feeding the possum that lives under my deck. Trying to find of some more creative food ideas. Would love some ideas.”

This isn’t cute, this isn’t goofy. These opossums have fat deposits so enlarged it is pushing against their skull and FORCING itself out of their eyes, covering them and making them risk being BLINDED. And she has comments that talk about this or people asking for ADVICE on it

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Picture of Dolly tucking into bed with an estimate of three obese opossums.

Picture of Dolly with three opossums with a large coverage of fat in their eyes.

Picture of dolly filming herself with an overweight opossum.

Picture of a possum in a caged enclosure with severe fat deposits over the eyes.

Opossums are VERY prone to getting heavy easily, because of their slow metabolism and ingesting heavy and fatty foods, even as a treat, can greatly affect them. Dolly has had many opossums in her care with these bug eyes and has constantly shown them off as “super cute” when it isn’t

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Picture of an opossum being fed a piece of hamburger.

And there’s a big misconception that this is “inevitable” when it comes to captive possums. However, it is PRONE to happen, not inevitable!!! This can be prevented as long as they are exercised and given a good fiber heavy diet.

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These opossums are SUFFERING. You can see so many videos under her account struggling to groom, walk, even just pick up food! It is genuinely disheartening to see them like this when there is proof of captive opossums not overweight and lived full lives

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Opossum with signs of obesity, bulging fat pockets partially covering their eyes and hazy eyes.

Picture of opossum being held by a person by the waist, also obese

A picture of an opossum with bulging fat pockets covering a majority of the eye

Opossum being fed a shrimp with an unknown orange sauce or substance covering it.

One such person is Neelydollyleah, who has had their entire account history of opossums that are overweight, struggling to even eat and move, and seen given poor foods (doesnt matter if its a treat! Still a no no food!) to them when dolly has a lot of resources to give them better.

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Just gonna say it. I am SO sick of seeing so many social media accounts with overfed opossums and so blatantly mistreated when the person in question has the ability to provide them better food and a life.

A long thread: 1/?

And this is NOT a hate thread. I get they are a small group and small groups can make poor decisions, but I feel like it isn’t comforting from a disabled person’s POV seeing people’s concerns from the previous event and people passing out is getting brushed under the rug.
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Like, has this been addressed? Well we don’t fkin know since its all deleted.
Their response about the june event has been completely deleted from their insta, I cannot find it. And various posts concerning about the heat, the wait line, has also been scrubbed. Which makes the group look suspect
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June’s #goblinmarket was awful and borderline dangerous from how hot it was. *I* almost passed out from heat exhaustion and dehydration. Someone was hospitalized, and wheelchair users could not move around at all in the event.
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I DO appreciate that they rented out bigger space that is also an RSVP event which means limited space and less risk of overcrowding. But that shouldn’t come at the cost of brushing away disabled people’s concerns and worries.
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Like I get wanting to start taking steps in the right direction and not letting past errors bring you down, but deleting and wiping disabled people’s points and criticisms that are valid and also was a huge health risk for them at that event is mad weird.
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Is it just me or did #goblinmarketfl insta and their other socials completely scrub their older posts on comments criticizing their june event? I just saw them announce the new event coming up and noticed that their response post and everything is gone… which is… super weird ngl??
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Sometimes when you're walking a dog and carrying a bag of their shit you think "if someone accosted me, I could throw this shit at them in self defense" and then you think "if I did that, I'd also probably instinctively shout HADOUKEN."

logging onto Bluesky

I got mad about AI so I made this comic about The Fucking Point of it all (1/7)

I feel like a good portion of ppl against the documentary don’t really peek further into it and not rly using proper reasons to be against it. Like, allegedly the doc uses fake video titles w big popufur names w/o their permission, that’s a reasonable criticism, not whatever some ppl be saying