and an animal control officer showed up about 40 minutes later to retrieve the opossum, she said. “He snagged her by the neck and handled her like a cat to get her into the carrier,” Doggett said.

The opossum the Doggetts nicknamed Blossom climbed ... They put Blossom’s pet carrier down behind the Doggett’s home about 7 p.m., and when Doggett checked around midnight, she was gone.