This week, a sweet-toothed opossum was hospitalized after annihilated the entire Costco chocolate mousse cake that was left on the porch of a Nebraska real estate agent's home.
Kim Dogget and her son discovered the tormented creature curled up on Sunday in the furniture on her patio, multiple outlets reported.
“She didn't look that great – she panted a bit,” Dogget He told the Washington Post.
A chocolate-colored foot print covered her beige sofa – and the almost greedy dessert was on the floor of her deck, the report said.
“I always fill up my house and we cook a lot. If we run out of refrigerator rooms, we just sit outside at a table outside in the winter.” Doggett told Forbes About leaving decadent desserts outside.
doggett And her son tried to keep nocturne marsupials away from his Omaha home, whether chocolate is toxic to opossums like dogs and other pets, and before he later Googled it.
Opossums eat almost anything, but chocolate can be toxic to mild mammals, they learned.
“We knew there was no way to leave the sick opossum overnight,” she told the Washington Post. “Obviously, it had too many good things.”
The nearly six-pound Virginia Opossum, the only marsupial species in the United States, was recognized in Nebraska's wildlife rehabilitation on Monday. Wildlife Rescue was shared on social media.
Staff crushed animals “cake thieves” Organization designing custom-made opossum cake bandit t-shirts To support the wildlife saving mission in their hometown.
But for now, they said that “sick” creatures are eating restricted diets.
“Sweet teeth can't wait until Valentine's Day. After a while for rehabilitation (and diet reset), this chocolate holic needs to be stabilized enough to return to the wild, but until then, she's been doing us I'm definitely a bit gross about the strict “zero chocolate” policy, Nebraska Wildlife Rehabilitation was posted on. Facebook.
“Same, opossum… the same.”
The current Villal post had received thousands of comments on social media from sympathetic observers as of Saturday.
“We were all there, girls,” one person said under a Facebook post on Wildlife Rescue.
Another commenter said, “It's okay, Lil Dude.”
“I don't know how to act around a chocolate cake either.”
