Or is it opposum?
Last night was a rough one at this lil duckie's household.
Lets get some background information here.
Your cast of characters,
*       Louis - 3 year old domestic short hair from the humaine society, he is considered to be the "Neurotic one". Very protective over the house.
*       Jinx - 5 year old domestic short hair from the humaine society, she is considered to be the "Pyschotic one". AKA Princess Warrior Jinx, she can get cranky if you annoy her too much. Although she looks slow, she can move pretty quick. She doesn’t care about much except when its dinner time, and when you're going to rub her belly.
*       Me, age is classified, I am not a domestic short hair, and although my mother has claimed to have to adopted me from the humaine society, I am also not adopted. Scared of spiders and often my own shadow, I am not the one to send when the house is being attacked by big and ugly bugs, spiders, mice, etc. That’s why I have cats.
So I was sitting on the computer at home minding my own business, when louis starts howling. There's a few stray cats in the area that come by and bug him. Jinx doesn't care about them, she'll hiss, but mostly just be annoyed by their presence. Louis on the other hand does not enjoy being pestered by them. Its his home, territory, etc, stay away. I turn the back yard lights on and see an orange tabby there. He keeps howling at it until it goes away. I turn the lights off, and the howling continues. I look out side and see what could easily be described as a 15 pound rat that is the size of Louis. I calmly think "Oh, that’s what he's howling at", I say something else. Loudly say something else. So, what do I do? Call up one of my buddies and ask "what would you call a creature that looks roughly like a 15 pound rat?", then of course I go outside to investigate. The creature has crawled up into the grape vines, and was basically just sitting there. I grabbed my flashlight and took a peak, the rather large rat just kinda stared back at me. Not moving, so of course I go grab a digital camera. I don't have the pictures here, but this is approximately what it looked like: http://www.iwrc-online.org/kids/Facts/Mammals/images/possum4.jpg

Whom i kidding? it looked like this: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bonediggers/images/evol-opossum-l.jpg

I was fearing for my eyeballs. So i scampered inside and surrounded myself with large objects, like a tv remote, and pillows. The whole time Jinx is sleeping on the couch and cannot bring herself to be bothered by the excitement.