Her instagram is official OpossumDragonParker! I'll still post her here too.

She really loves the new wheel.

Backstory: This was taken on my front house camera.

I like to sit on my front porch for about 90 minutes every night. It's so peaceful and nice. I have a bunch of house geckos come around so I feed them dried mealworms.

About a week ago, I noticed a young possum walking in the shadows of my front yard, so I threw a handful of the dried mealworms out to him. He started foraging them immediately. So the past week or so I'd throw a handful out in the front yard and he's been there hiding in the dark shadows. I haven't spoken to him, I don't acknowledge him as I want him to be

The other night I was taking out some trash and they realized as I was going down the staircase he followed me and jumped on the concrete at the front of the stairs so I stopped and talked to him with my hands behind my back. He really didn't know what to make of it. When I walked away I noticed he ran away. And went back into the shadows. Got him some mealworms and threw them out on the yard and he came out of the shadows again..

He's so cute!

I respect him as a wild animal so I'm not going to try to tame him or anything and just let him be who he is.

No picture sorry. I have seen my patio opossum, whom I have named Tapuach, a number of times in the last couple of months. I'm also feeding a feral cat, Dr. Robby (Dr. Robby Rabinovitch), on a daily or twice daily basis (he needs dinner and second dinner). I'm also attempting NOT to feed my neighbor's two cats, Bully and Dummy (not their real names) who get plenty of food in their own house.

Because my neighbor's cats are out all the goddamn time I don't want to fill up a dish and hope that Tapuach gets it and not them, so I've been scattering the kibble. I've also left tasty noms like cheese and tomatoes. But whenever I manage to catch a sighting, I feel like she's wandering around the patio and not finding what I've left.

Thoughts, advice?