My fear with possums and racoons is that they can get pretty vicious when attacked and I have always worried that Honey and Lilly would be hurt trying to "play". I'm glad Alex wasn't hurt. I have heard of smaller dogs being killed by a vicious raccoon!

We have only had one encounter like you experienced and it was a couple of years ago. I came home around 9:30 one evening and found the dogs rolling a possum around in the backyard. I finally got them inside and went out to put the possum in a garbage bag, thinking it was dead, and I realized it was still breathing! I picked it up with the shovel and threw it over the fence, and the next morning, it was gone! I was glad it didn't die, but was gladder that it didn't come back!! All of our possum sitings since then have been with them way up in a tree. They drive the dogs nuts!!!!