opossummypossum:

Remember this adorable video? I recently learned that I’m friends with the opossum rehabber who filmed it, so I want to share this message he wrote. Thank you for your work, Rob!

This was JJ, our first keeper, she lived 3.5 love filled years with us and didn’t become popular on Youtube til after she passed. It went viral for a while bringing in over 20K hits a day before slowing down. At one point Poland was watching it more than any other country..go figure that one out. I had 3 television production companies send me contracts so they could use it on their show. I agreed to all and was compensated. 2 in the US and one in England. I hoped that this video shed light on them as a species, I know that in some of the replies it did, most were very positive, in others it did not and I ended up defending possums and my fingernails with great prejudice toward those folks. Many were banned after a good verbal bitch slapping. So what do you think, I never had any videos get even close to this number and probably never will… hope you enjoy and sorry for any tension……sure I am……ha..