Possums Vs. Humans?

["steven" <trails@jps.net>]

Teddy: Happy New Year, that must make up to 100,000,00 humans at least those
that are reported that are killed by cars ect. to be RODENTS??
best steven
----- Original Message -----
From: "Teddy Lancaster" <Teddy@runningbear.com>
To: <MBlanchrd@aol.com>
Cc: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 7:38 PM
Subject: RC: Possums


> Well, I consider any animal whose destiny in life is to be run over by a
car a
> ROADENT!!!
>
> Teddy
>
> MBlanchrd@aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 01/01/2000 4:22:57 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> > ridecamp-d-request@endurance.net writes:
> >
> > << broke my heart but not my husband's who was tired of sleeping
> >  with a rodent--no not me--the opossum) and had a pet gray squirrel >>
> >
> > Forgive me for possibly starting another unrelated thread, but opossums
are
> > NOT RODENTS. They're not even closely related. Possums are marsupials
and
> > co-existed with the dinosaurs in the Cretaceous, long before rodents
even
> > considered evolving!
> > And you may want to reconsider keeping them as pets. They've been
fingered as
> > carriers of the protozoan that causes EPM in horses.
> > Michelle Blanchard
> > MBlanchrd@aol.com
> >
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