Things That Go Scratch In The Night...

We had been hearing a really creepy scratching noise from underneath the floorboards, so we called our landlord and he arranged to have an exterminator come to the house. Imagine our surprise when we found this little critter in the trap outside our kitchen window just a few days later....

The girls were very concerned about the possum...they wanted to put a blanket over the cage and feed it and give it a name so we could keep it as a pet. I didn't have the heart to tell the girls what would happen to the little thing...does it make me a horrible mother if I told them the possum was going home to be with his/her other possum buddies?