The Plump Opossums

The Plump Opossums

By Lisa Ann Noe

               

Poco was a opossum he lived in the woods beside a family who loved animals and they had several cats.  They fed the cats every day on the back porch of the house.  The cats would eat their fill and leave the rest in the bowl.  When night fell Poco would sneak down out of the woods and go to the back porch of the house to eat the cat food that was left by the cats.

He would do this every night until one night another opossum joined him.

His name was Ozzy and he was a big fella kind of heavy if you know what I mean.  The two of them set side by side every night eating the cat food.  They were not afraid of the owners of the house even, they knew the owners would watch them but they didn’t care because they were becoming fat on their nightly cat food.  One day another slimmer opossum joined the pair this time it was a female named  Pia.  Pia was liked by both of the opossums, she had her pick of which one she would marry.  She must have chosen Ozzy because on night she came down from the woods and she had three little opossums to care for.  They were her babies. She brought them with her to teach them to feed.  The owner of the house saw what was going on and being animal lovers they put down extra cat food each night. The three opossums and the three little ones all became plump eating cat food. They were no garbage pickers any more.  The End.

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