I have found that one can actually grab a possum by the tail and hoist it up without being bitten. Some care is required, but that's something I would never think of trying with, say, a raccoon.

A possum in a former life.

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Nah, the possums here are cute enough...huge gray rats with skull makeup on their faces (think KISS rats).

This guy's a bit cuter, but being an Aussie critter, we know he's armed with either deadly poison or six inch claws and wants to eat your face when you're not looking.

thats not a north american possum.
the possums here are what nightmares are made of.......

Heroic? So, some river boarder sees a squirrel on a rock and thinks: "awww, how cute. I'm going to go over there and see if he needs help, because clearly he couldn't have gotten there on his own by swimming. Hey little buddy, you want a ride on my extremely non-natural looking piece of flotation device, something which doesn't exist in your environment."

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH. Terrifying man-thing. It's going to eat me. I just came out to this rock to wait while I gathered up my energy to swim the rest of the way across the river and some monster slithered down the river and emerged, all yellow and black and hairy looking. Leave me alone, vile beast! Curse you!"

"You look scared little squirrel, are you afraid of the water? Here, get on my board. Come on. I'll move a little closer to you to make sure you get on. Stop backing away."

"OH NO! He is moving in for the kill, quick, where can I run! Ha, the silly monster can't swim up river, I shall go there! I shall jump to that rock with the fast moving water on it and show this evil monster how squirrels swim. That will show him not to mess with my kind!"

*JUMP*

"Glub Glub. Blargh, this is turning out to be much harder than I thought. Ahhhh, glub glub."

"Oh no, the little guy jumped in the river again. I'll just swim over and save him from his ultimate demise. Silly guy, why did he do that? I was offering him a ride, why didn't he understand that was what I was doing?"

"Glub glub; AAAAAHH, it's coming closer. I am doomed. Farewell cruel world, I knew thee not long but I loved thee so well."

"Gotcha. Here, take a ride on my board. That's better, isn't it little guy? Here, I'll bring you to shore."

"Wah! You have trapped me! Are you going to take me back to your friends to feast on me together? Wait. What is this thing? What magics be this? How does this trap float so well. It must be made of some sort of advanced tree structure that only the giants know how to grow. I am tempted to jump back in the river but I am certain you will catch me again and my energy will have been wasted. No, I will play the possum and wait for my moment. Yes, just when you think you have got me, I shall spring away to safety. Silly giants, they do not know anything. You are bringing me closer to shore, yes. Closer. Closer. *Jump* Hahahahhahaha. Silly giant, now I am up a tree, you will never catch me. Of course, you could have avoided all of this by leaving me alone! Next time, don't waste both of our time and energy by trying to catch a squirrel, we are too smart for you giant monsters!"

"There you go little buddy, now you are safe. Shouldn't have jumped in the river like that, though. Next time you see a human, expect them to be trying to help you, man. Now I will go and cover myself in patchouli oil and smoke some weed."

Moral of the story: Leave wild animals the fuck alone.

I'm surprise these guys don't know what a possum is.

Possum picked off at third. What a play that was!

The backup possum was hardly needed!

Awww possums are so cute, I want to play with it.

S'called long-pig and if ya had the right hunger and seasonings you'd probably adjust if you had to in a pinch. Personally, I'd forage and sprout and the occasional rabbit, squirrel, possum, turtle or nutria, which are all quite tasty. oh and fish, frogs, snails, and snakes-You can eat all that and not feel guilty, as long as it's not STARING AT YOU FROM THE PLATE!! Fuuuuk!

Monkeys are fucking dicks. I remember when I was in the Caribbean I watched these monkeys pick up a possum... and I hate possums they are ugly dumb shits... and carry it to the top of a tree several times to drop it. I was a little monkey kid and thought it was hilarious. I don't like raccoon's either but watching this makes me want to have Indiana Jones soup.

As a fellow Aussie I think this is hilarious.

Although, I have come across, in the wild:
Tiger snakes
Copperhead snakes
Scorpions
Red back spiders
Funnelweb spiders
Whitetail spiders (These give nasty fricken bites)
Huntsman spiders (These don't hurt you, but get damn big)
um...

Oh, and by wild, for the spiders, I mean in my house.

Wombats? Lots of those, they can hurt if they bite you.... but they're so cute.

Um... a gazillion bloody possums, but yeah, not the most dangerous of animals

So, um, yeah, I'm a real hardnut...


ahem.

My cat, "Goat", once caught a possum nearly twice his size on the other side of the fence by grabbing his tail. When the arm came under to swat at him, he grabbed that, too. By the time I got to him, Goat had both front paws dug into the opossum's forearm, back paw pinning down a rear leg (also from under the fence), and a tail in his mouth, pulling with all his strength to pull that beast to his side.

When I finally was able to pull him off, the opossum was wedged tightly under the boards to the concrete and couldn't get out. I had to get a shovel to pry the boards up so her could escape. And he just lumbered off without much of a hurry.

This thing is a pet?? Who in their right fucking mind tries to domesticate a possum?