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When we still lived in San Clemente (this is about 14 years ago), my wife and I arrived home late one night from a date. I hit the garage door opener and started to pull into the garage and my wife starts screaming and freaking out. I then noticed what she was hyper about - a possum had decided to check our garage out and then apparently could not get back out until we opened the garage door again. He wasn't too sociable and the bugger would not get out. I honked and honked, and then finally, I had to get out and get a shovel to kind of prod him/her along out of there.

Now that I live in western Tennessee, holy cow, possums are a near every night sighting... or Racoons, foxes, coyotes, deer, turkey, etc.

The funniest and coolest wildlife sighting I ever had was at my property up in SW Montana. I had just had a 6 foot deep trench dug across an area where we were preparing to build the house (for the water line). I was up there pounding in fenceposts for my dog pen and was quite into the moment and then as I looked up while taking a breather, there it was... No, luckily, it was not a bear, but it wa a VERY large bull moose. Good grief the thing was huge in real life! He was about 40 feet away from me, standing at the trench, acting as if he did not quite know how to get over it. Or maybe he was trying to decide if he should kick my butt for digging up HIS yard. I was worried most about my kids who were playing up on the hill from where we were at, but he finally hopped over the trench and meandered up the hillside. Glad HE didn't bite me.