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| A passion for possums
And guys from what I understand she is single Quote: KiKi crawls around Kathleen Shives' shoulders, curling her long tail and chewing on a fresh grape with 50 sharp teeth.
Her face is relaxed, her movements gentle. KiKi is one happy marsupial.
This isn't how most people see opossums (or possums, as most people call them). Most people don't want to see possums.
But Shives, a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, has nursed more than 1,000 possums over the past six years and shares her Northeast Austin ranch with 65 of the much-maligned animals.
"If more people just understood that they're not vicious, rabid animals, they wouldn't hate them so much," she said.
Shives found her passion for possums 30 years ago. The 53-year-old Austin woman, who lives with her mother and brother, was taking a wildlife rehabilitation class and had to care for an animal in her home.
Her classmates snatched up the "cuter" ones: birds, squirrels, raccoons. Shives got stuck with the baby possum. She named him Dinky. | http://www.statesman.com/news/conten...520possum.html  |
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