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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) _ A man and his 12-year-old son could face charges related to animal cruelty after an incident that left a mother opossum and four of her babies dead, police said.
Anaheim officers found injured baby opossums on a residential sidewalk shortly after 8:30 a.m. Monday. Witnesses told police they saw Lorenzo Oliver and his son pushing an upside-down bucket down the street with the mother opossum inside, Sgt. Rick Martinez said Tuesday. When they lifted the bucket and the opossum jumped up, the boy began striking it with a shovel, Martinez said.
“He may have been frightened by the opossum’s sudden movement,” Martinez said.
Oliver, 54, was arrested and released on bail. Martinez says the 12-year-old was detained and released to his mother, pending further review.
The mother possum was euthanized because of her severe injuries, said Dalene Northrup of the Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach. The five one-month-old babies that were in the mother’s pouch are being cared for at the center.
I learned the hard way possums don’t always play possum. I once opened my back door to find a possum staring at me, I made a growling noise to scare the possum, he was in no possum playing mood. He growled back at me, showed me his sharp teeth and I had to jump back inside and slam the door like a big chicken.
This one time, there was this possum that came into my yard. He started eating all my cat’s food all the damn time. It was really starting to piss me off.
So, one night I snuck up behind it and punched it in its face. I totally went southpaw on his ass, and I think it was expecting a right hook. I really KO’d that hairy bitch. The possum didn’t die, but it sure wasn’t happy about it. I don’t think that’s against the law.