Sneaky Wild Possum Tricks Nice Grandma Into Taking Care Of Him

Eric Hertlein’s grandma, who is an animal lover, naturally has a soft place for the stray cats who reside around her Kansas house. So much so that she’s made aside a lovely spot for them on her covered porch, complete with beds and food. She even welcomes them inside the house on occasion.

She had no idea, however, that one of the kittens she’d been caring for for the previous few months wasn’t a cat at all.

Eric recently decided to pay a visit to his grandmother’s residence. She was there to meet him as he went in, along with the usual assortment of strays that can normally be seen lying there. But suddenly Eric’s gaze was drawn to something unexpected.

An opossum was snoozing amid the cats on his own bed.

Eric, alarmed and perplexed, imagined the wild impostor had just crept in. Eric’s grandmother, clearly taken aback by his outburst, politely attempted to calm him down. What’s with the “cat” in the corner? He’d been showing up for a while. Tete was his name.

Eric told The Dodo, “She convinced me it was one of her cats.” “I told her it wasn’t what she thought.”

Now it was Grandma’s turn to be perplexed.

“I laughed for at least five minutes,” Eric said. “She had no idea what I was giggling at until I pointed her her sharp nose and slender tail. She had no idea he wasn’t a cat.”

Eric’s grandma was taken aback by everything. She had to see it for herself. Her reaction upon learning the truth about lovely Tete, on the other hand, couldn’t have been nicer.

“She just basically sat there,” Eric recounted. “Then she moved in closer… and slowly looked up at me with the largest grin on her face, saying, ‘Well, he hasn’t troubled me yet, so I’m OK with him being here!’”

Grandma has embraced the opossum — and, surprisingly, so have the actual cats who visit her. None of them appear troubled by him, perhaps since they were all aware of his actual nature all along.

It’s unknown how Tete ended up with a gang of kittens, although he might have been orphaned. Eric subsequently discovered that the opossum was only a baby when he first showed up to his grandmother’s house asking for food and comfort.

The fact that Eric’s grandma accepted him in then, and continues to do so now that she knows the truth, demonstrates the power of compassion.

“She adores animals and looks after them whenever she can,” Eric added. “It just encourages you to perform better and to treat other creatures better as well.”

Link to Paws Daily

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