‘Pusharatas for Possums’ event in St. Martin helps raise money to provide care for wildlife

The seventh annual ‘Pusharatas for Possums’ event took over the St. Martin Community Center to benefit the Wild at Heart Wildlife Rescue. Volunteers worked through the night to fry up several thousand ...
People

Clear Your Schedules: This Calendar Filled with Cuddly Opossums and Cute Guys Is All You Need

All of the proceeds from this 18-month calendar go to help Gulf Coast wildlife rehabs Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...
Noozhawk

Buellton Woman Rescues, Rehabilitates and Advocates for Oft-Maligned Opossums

Sporting opossums on her shirt, Dawn Summerlin holds up one of the critters in her care. The Buellton woman rehabilitates opossums in connection with the Santa Barbara Wiildlife Care Network. (Janene ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

Reward offered as burned opossum sparks outrage and support in Mountain Park

The opossum, found in Mountain Park, Fulton County, is under the care of a rescue organization after being burned. Alexandra and Bethen Rose, who found and transported the opossum, named her Phoenix ...
Houston Chronicle

'Possum Trot' movie about East Texas couple should inspire more churches to help children in foster care

The solution to Texas’ failing foster-care system may lie with the good people of Possum Trot. Some 23 families in this rural East Texas community adopted 77 children in foster care in the late ’90s ...