I believe that a Possum or a Racoon could be very dangerous to your dog if they were to get into a spat. Maybe it is the Racoon that I am remembering more.

As Sandra said, we used to have these Tuesday night "Possum Parties" at my old house. It happened almost every Tuesday night and it seemed like it was always raining and cold. Lilly and Honey would chase them up the tree and then refuse to come inside and bark their heads off.

One night, several years ago (not a Tuesday this time), Helen and a friend of hers and I got home from a movie or something around 9:30 at night. We went out to get the dogs in the backyard and they were playing with something. Turned out it was a Possum and I thought it was dead. They were rolling it all around the yard with their noses. (Again this was Lilly and Honey). My neighbor provided me with some "pinchers" to bag him up , but that wasn't going to work because he was too big. I ended up using a shovel, lifting him up and putting him over the fence because I detected that he was still breathing. Sure enough, he was gone the next morning. He was playing possum!

Honey has killed two possums since we moved to the house where we live now, but we don't get nearly the number and variety of critters that we used to get at the other house. Turtles, rats, possums, snakes, raccoons, you name it, we got it, there! LOL!! And Honey and Lilly always had to see them and "play" with them!!!! Those were the days.......and I think I'm glad they are over!