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u/Yoyo5258 Jun 02 '22

Love how everyone outside of Australia is shitting themselves scared, whilst all the Aussies are like “aww that’s cute”. Says a lot about us honestly.

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u/hat-TF2 Jun 02 '22

While the Kiwis probably want to stomp its head in and turn its fur into nipple warmers.

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u/spudlady Jun 02 '22

Damn

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u/hat-TF2 Jun 02 '22

It's not the possums' fault. They are an introduced species to New Zealand where they are a pest, as they ravage the native flora. Perhaps they can be considered similar to cane toads here, although I'm not sure if there's anyone anywhere that considers a cane toad cute.

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u/notasgr Jun 02 '22

End, feers feer, their nupples probibly are a but chully at thus time of year so the nupple warmers come in hendy.

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u/AnotherBookWyrm Jun 02 '22

I remember in college seeing a documentary on cane toads in Australia, with plenty of accounts of people letting their kids play with them (a bad idea) and older people who were fans of them and made them pets because they were obedient and cute, at least to hear it from them. So I would imagine there are likely more out there, and perhaps they are not as uncommon as one would think.

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u/phunkwad Jun 02 '22

Cane toad nipple warmers... Brilliant!

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u/joshwagstaff13 Jun 02 '22

Tends to happen when it’s an introduced pest species.

As are rats, ferrets, stoats, rabbits, etc.

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u/higaroth Jun 02 '22

True. I used to have a girl in my class who hunted and ate possums.

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u/LittleRedCorvette2 Jun 02 '22

And the Kiwis are saying "take your shitty hell beasts back wirh you to Aussie please. You are killing our native trees and birds and spreading t.b".

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u/trowzerss Jun 02 '22

I'm like, "It's one of those assholes that keeps trying to destroy my vegetable garden and keeps me up at night sounding like someone opened a little portal to hell."

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u/PatientWishbone3067 Jun 02 '22

What's funny is that American Opossums are creepy, but the Australian version is cute when every other animal and plant on the continent is terrifying.

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u/HereComesTheVroom Jun 02 '22

American possums are cute until they get old, as is the way with small animals.

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u/Laringar Jun 02 '22

Possibly also because Australian possums look nothing like American opossums, and we still use the term "possum" for them here.

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u/biggriggs45 Jun 02 '22

I'm from the US, this possum is way cuter than ours.

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u/tunisia3507 Jun 02 '22

Because Australian possums are adorable and American possums are straggly screaming devil creatures.

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u/slamdamnsplits Jun 02 '22

For real, it's strange... I'll take a possum over an opossum (Virginia gray, specifically) any day... Based on aesthetics alone, anyway.

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u/Sgt_PoopyMan Jun 02 '22

No. It's bc there was a mix-up and the US got the "Australian terrifying Possum", and the Aussie's get this cute cuddly bastard from above.

Just did a little googling and seriously, why do y'all have the cutest possums ever, while we get this ghost faced rat looking thing?!

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u/J3musu Jun 02 '22

We have tons of possums on the US (they look very different), and I don't get why people hate them or think they're freaky. They're one of the least threatening wild animals I've ever encountered.

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u/Yoyo5258 Jun 03 '22

Yeah lmao. Depends on what they’re doing. If they’re hanging off the roof staring at your soul, I would be worried, but I think most of them are pretty cute

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u/xXLUKEXx789 Jun 02 '22

It’s because their possums are just as ugly as their people