good story

Well last night I fed my animal trap some chicken bones. Today I was rewarded with a possum. It is a little baby. It was asleep when I came out to get the trap. I cannot bring myself to kill them so I take them over to the ship channel/bayou under Lockwood Drive. On one side is a crushed concrete yard. On the other is a small woodeda area extending down to the bayou. I let them out on that side.

OK. When I took the side road down to the bayou I was in for a shock. There was a Houston police car parked in the middle of the dirt under the bridge. Was the policeman hiding down there? He looked peacefully composed. He turned out to be small young Hispanic man. Very nice looking. Maybe the reason he was down there was because there was also a seemingly empty mail truck down there. It was parked sideways parallel to the bayou and right next to it. It was close to falling in. Perhaps he was waiting for some kind of backup.

Anyone I wanted to dispose of this possum and did not know what else to do with it. So I stopped, turned off the engine and got out of my car. I slowly approached the police car. He already had his window down. He asked me, "What can I do for you?" I said, "You are in my spot!" Then I asked him what he would think if I dropped a possum here. He thought that was funny. Among other things he asked me how many possums I had. Anyway he said it was no problem. I then mentioned that in some states it was illegal to do this. He said, "Not in Texas."

So I quickly got the possum moving along up the bank to his new home. As I returned to the car the policeman approached. He had some kind of hand held computer. He must have looked at some kind of guide. He told me that next time I catch a possum I should call Animal Control and see if they would come and pick it up. That seems like a good idea to at least try. These things should either be killed or found a better place than the one I have for them. Next time I will give the Houston bureaucracy a try.