When a security guard in Tustin discovered an opossum on a wall one night, he beat it to death with his flashlight. When a Santa Fe Springs man spotted an opossum in his backyard, he shot it three ...

It has been brought to my attention that, when writing about country critters, I have not given sufficient attention to the smelly and ugly. “What about skunks and possums?” one reader questioned me ...

The lights are strung, the stage is set and Baby New Year is waiting in a cage, hissing. Brasstown, once again, is ready for the Possum Drop. On Thursday, at the stroke of midnight, as hundreds of ...

FORT WALTON BEACH, - If there is a heaven for downtrodden animals, it must look a lot like Carri Wieser's house. The bathtub of her Fort Walton Beach residence is home to more than a dozen tiny baby ...

A few days ago, I was walking along Fernwood Road in Bethesda, in a neighborhood full of office buildings and parking lots. It was not a setting where you'd expect to see animals, except as hood ...