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A Large White Animal with a long Rat likeTail in Brampton Ont

by Lisa
(Brampton, Ontario)

At About 2:30 at night I looked out my bedroom window and I saw a very large-looking white animal walking up my pathway to my front door.

I thought was a large white cat but it definitely was not!!

It heard me and looked up at me turned and went across the lawn it was the size of a baby pig, round and pudgy looking, with a long rat-like tail and very small fine fur with a rat-looking face.

I have never seen anything like this ever, I think it was a white possum, or an extremely large rat, this thing was the size of a large cat or slightly bigger.

Whatever it was was very strange and walked away, it didnt run, so I got a good look at this thing and was shocked.

Thank-you Lisa, for your report - what you are describing sounds like a Possum to me!




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A Large White Animal with a long Rat likeTail in Brampton Ont

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Apr 08, 2012
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starstarstarstarstar 		I saw this animal in Wisconsin
by: nikita

Just like the report by Lisa, it sounds just like what I saw.

I was up at 3 am and saw what looked like a very large rat, the size of a cat, but not a cat, with a rat tail, in Greenfield, Wisconsin.
Apr 06, 2012
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starstarstarstarstar 		Possum in Oshawa
by: Anonymous

Just out to take the garbage out here in Oshawa, Ontario, on April the 6 at 10 pm and came across what appears to be a Possum he or she seemed pretty tame, I actually got with arms reach before it ran away.
Mar 22, 2012
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starstarstarstarstar 		Possum in Cambridge, Ontario
by: Anonymous

We had borrowed some city traps to try and catch Raccoons in our yard that are destroying our large tree and such.

The one morning, when looking out my window, I could see something in the trap. I couldn't see exactly what it was, but knew it wasn't a Raccoon.

I went out to take a closer look. Wow, was this thing ever ugly and scary looking! Like an extra large "scraggly" rat bearing it's teeth at me.

The city worker confirmed it was a Possum. I didn't know we had them in our area. We do live in proximity from the river, which is where this one had probably travelled from!!
Jan 09, 2012
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starstarstarstarstar 		Poor Opossum :'(
by: Anonymous

I went to pick up my daughter from work tonight and passed by a dead Possum, which I thought was a seal-pointed cat at first pass.

However on the way home with my daughter I got a better look at it and indeed it was a young opossum which I don't think reached adulthood.

Looks like the Opossum ended up as road-kill.

The poor thing is probably still laying dead in the street intact, and I highly doubt it's playing dead. :'(

Galesway Blvd, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
May 26, 2011
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starstarstarstarstar 		A cute creature I've never seen
by: Romina

I was up one morning getting ready to drop my daughter off at school for a trip, when all of a sudden my daughter spotted this Rat-like Creature.

We took pictures then began to look up different animals to figure out which one this was and in fact it was a Possum.

It was actually quite cute and very amazing to see in our backyard, I've never seen one up close!
Feb 16, 2011
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starstarstarstarstar 		Possum for sure
by: Anonymous

If what you saw was white, had a rat-like tail, was as big as a cat and was out and about at night, then in all likelyhood, it was a Possum that you saw!

They are becoming more and more common all across Southern Ontario these days and I see them now and again where I live near Brantford.

Sometimes the ones I see are missing ears because of the frostbite but otherwise they are doing ok.

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