Unstoppable possum survives being shot five times

A reward is being offered for any information after a possum was found trapped and shot five times. The Humane Society of the United States and The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust are offering $500 to anyone with information. The opossum was found in Waterloo, Iowa.

When the officers approached the cage where she was trapped they thought she was dead. She was only playing dead, but really was hurt. "To trap an animal in a live trap and shoot it repeatedly in our opinion it's cruel," said Terese Evans, Black Hawk Wildlife Rehabilitation Project Director.



The opossum was shot four times in the face and once in the shoulder, all while she was trapped in the cage. "She is lucky, she is very lucky," said Evans. The opossum is recovering at Terese Evans home.

"My hope for her is she gets released back into the wild and raise her young and be left undisturbed to do what she does best and that's eat dead things, eat slugs and bugs, and moles and shrews, and all that they do," Evans says. The opossum has one bullet left behind her right ear, but she should be back in the wild in the next few weeks.

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