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Author Topic: Can you turn into a were-opossum if a rabid opossum bites you?  (Read 13257 times)

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Can you turn into a were-opossum if a rabid opossum bites you?
« on: April 17, 2021, 09:45:21 am »
What are the odds that an opossum will eat someone's face before animal control arrives?

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Re: Can opossums eat human flesh?
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2021, 10:51:26 am »
Is the human alive or dead?

EDIT: Alright, saw other post.  Opossums are basically like feral cats*.  You stay away from them, and they'll stay away from you.  We got one at home that basically eat with the cats outside.

EDIT2: *And yes, I think that answers your original question.
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Re: Can opossums eat human flesh?
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2021, 01:36:17 pm »
It tried to bite me as i ran out of my room to let animal control into the house.
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Re: Can opossums eat human flesh?
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2021, 01:49:04 pm »
Quote from: ArchimedesWojak on April 17, 2021, 01:36:17 pm
It tried to bite me as i ran out of my room to let animal control into the house.

Sorry!

...when you're feeling better, inquiring minds would like to know where it tried to bite.
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Re: Can opossums eat human flesh?
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2021, 02:57:03 pm »
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Quote from: ArchimedesWojak on April 17, 2021, 01:36:17 pm
It tried to bite me as i ran out of my room to let animal control into the house.

Sorry!

...when you're feeling better, inquiring minds would like to know where it tried to bite.

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Re: Can opossums eat human flesh?
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2021, 04:30:07 am »
Opossums are all bark and no bite, from what I've seen them do is they act like they're gonna do something but they never do anything.
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Re: Can you turn into a were-opossum if a rabid opossum bites you?
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2021, 05:58:32 am »
Yeah if it really bit you, I'd go to the doctor and get a rabies shot. They shouldn't bite, unless perhaps when you corner them and put your toe in the mouth.
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Re: Can you turn into a were-opossum if a rabid opossum bites you?
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2021, 07:36:51 am »
No, because opossums are basically immune to rabies. They're not know to transmit rabies. A rabid opossum is a myth. Were-possums, though? Is leprosy the first sign of becoming a were-possum?
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Re: Can you turn into a were-opossum if a rabid opossum bites you?
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2021, 12:16:16 pm »
Quote from: BigD145 on April 18, 2021, 07:36:51 am
No, because opossums are basically immune to rabies. They're not know to transmit rabies. A rabid opossum is a myth.

According to the Opossum Society of the United States:

"Any mammal can get rabies. However, the chance of rabies in an opossum is EXTREMELY RARE. This may have something to do with the opossum’s low body temperature (94-97º F) making it difficult for the virus to survive in an opossum’s body."

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Were-possums, though? Is leprosy the first sign of becoming a were-possum?

Not a were-possum, but a were-armadillo.
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Re: Can you turn into a were-opossum if a rabid opossum bites you?
« Reply #9 on: April 18, 2021, 12:19:14 pm »
Opossums also have thick hides, closer to a pig than other furry woodland creatures.
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Re: Can you turn into a were-opossum if a rabid opossum bites you?
« Reply #10 on: April 18, 2021, 01:05:43 pm »
I know that were-Badgers and were-hedgehogs are a serious problem in the UK, but I don't know about Opossums.
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Re: Can you turn into a were-opossum if a rabid opossum bites you?
« Reply #11 on: April 18, 2021, 01:07:01 pm »
Quote from: Imic on April 18, 2021, 01:05:43 pm
I know that were-Badgers and were-hedgehogs are a serious problem in the UK, but I don't know about Opossums.
If you look outside and see an Opossum, you're in the Americas.
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Re: Can you turn into a were-opossum if a rabid opossum bites you?
« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2021, 01:37:32 pm »
Quote from: EuchreJack on April 18, 2021, 01:07:01 pm
If you look outside and see an Opossum, you're in the Americas.

Or in Australia.
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Re: Can you turn into a were-opossum if a rabid opossum bites you?
« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2021, 03:50:39 pm »
US: Opossoms
Oz: Possoms

Different things. (Well, very similar different things, but Possoms are closer related to other Australian marsupials than their more distant Yankee cousins.)

Unless, instead of being "were-"(o)possoms with your standard therianthropy, they're actually possom-opossoms (or verse vica) having somehow been bitten by their counterpart. Before they they bit you.

That could be... confusing?
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Re: Can you turn into a were-opossum if a rabid opossum bites you?
« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2021, 04:41:13 pm »
They both taste great with red wine though
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