Hope you don’t me butting in. We had one visiting last summer/fall and it loved bird seed, watermelon, apples (cut up), and other fruit.

These two came up and ate together nearly every night. :)

No,

anything is great

They love dried cat food, but I consider them to be pests. I used to find them on my passion fruit vine at night eating passion fruit. I wasn't too concerned about it because I would get from 60 to 80 fruits a day - we had a huge vine.

Raccoons will attack fish ponds and kill the fish without eating all of them.

I used to have them and wish they were still here. I love them. I gave them fruits of all kinds and cat food. They are benevolent little creatures who are much maligned but they do so much good.

i love possums and we have lots out here on the farm. i'm a huge fan of anything that will eat ticks!!!

Jilly, looks like mama and her baby! We get them too and I'll get a bit close to one so it will play dead. lol

Oak, no, it’s a possum and racoon who became best buds. :D

We had a mama deer with her two babies every day, too. They were so sweet — I have so many pics of them. Watermelon was their fav treat.

Years ago I had one, I forget if I fed it dog or cat food, but it was happy. It moved on after a while.

My opossums brought their babies and climbed on my sunporch roof where I could look out the window at them. I miss them as this has been years ago.

While they are beneficial to have around (I enjoy mine here), the whole tick eating machine is overblown.

https://www.fieldandstream.com/conservation/possums-dont-eat-ticks/?am

Mamma and family.

tj

Possums like tomatoes too. So do raccoons. I know because they climb our garden fence and eat or partially bite into the ones they find that are almost ripe. Always the big almost red ones.

I've had a family of possums visit my house pretty much nightly this summer. They seems to enjoy fruit that's slightly off, starting to rot a bit etc. Overripe bananas, tomatoes, blemished apples, pears, pretty much anything I put out there except cucumbers which they refused to eat.