Yeah, I nearly stepped on one the other night; opened my front door, and he was right there (with the cat), having dinner. Scared both of us.
RWC -
Here’s why you don’t wanna mess around with an opossum.
A family acquaintance—a police detective—once had to be dissuaded by his mother from shooting a raccoon in his kitchen, after he discovered that pepper spray does not slow them down.