Cheryl, our local animal-control officer, has kept our opossum at the local animal shelter through the winter. Usually she would have released him at about the end of September, but he had grown too slowly.
She assures us that our opossum is still healthy and that she will bring him to visit us again before she releases him. Probably she will release him in April.
Zosia and I are happy that our opossume was allowed to remain at the shelter through the winter. Every time the weather became cold or snowy, we thought about our baby, and we were happy he was not trying to survive in the wild.
Zosia and I still are worried that our opossum will have difficulties learning how to survive in the wild. We hope he will find an older opossum who will show him the ways.
Cheryl has explained to us the animal-control officers' philosophy that opossums are born to live in the wild, not in captivity. Even if they suffer and die soon after they are released, it is better that they live even for short time as they were born to live.
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