A Southland woman fed up with possums attacking her roses has assumed the role of pest controller at a council reserve. Last ...

Thankfully, opossums act like vacuum cleaners, killing almost 95 per cent of the ticks that try to feed on them. A single opossum could eliminate as many as 4,000 ticks in a week! And, as an added ...

"They're actually very fastidious groomers. Think of your cat grooming itself." It's also rare for an opossum to hurt a dog, cat or child. Opossums don't generally attack animals bigger than a rat.