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I simply discovered a brand new opossum to obsess over! Meet Mama Odie, a candy opossum who lives on the Keeper of the Wild Wildlife Rescue and Sanctuary in South Carolina. She got here into the rescue in 2024 after shedding her eyesight in what was in all probability a canine assault. She had two tiny infants in her pouch when she arrived, probably having misplaced the remainder of her litter.

Volunteer Samantha MacDougal advised The Dodo that Mama Odie was mourning after shedding her infants, so she tried connecting her with orphaned opossums that routinely come into the sanctuary’s care. Mama Odie instantly embraced them as her personal. “It is a actually stunning factor to look at,” MacDougal stated. “[She’s] such a loving guardian for these infants.” Then one thing outstanding occurred:

The day the child opossum arrived on the rehabilitation middle, MacDougal seen one thing uncommon about the best way Mama Odie was appearing. She was making clicking noises again and again, which opossums solely ever do once they’re searching for their mate or their infants.

MacDougal checked throughout Mama Odie’s pen to see what she might presumably be searching for. However she could not discover something. Then, she heard a sound she did not anticipate coming from throughout the room.

From the opposite facet of the room, the brand new child opossum had been calling out to Mama Odie, and Mama Odie was responding. One way or the other, she and the child had found one another and have been now asking to be collectively. So MacDougal determined to strive placing the child with Mama Odie.

MacDougal put them collectively. It was, as she put it, “a match made in heaven.” Mama Odie instantly took within the child, cleaned him, and cuddled with him alongside her different adopted infants. Since arriving on the rescue, she’s been a surrogate mama to greater than twenty orphaned opossums who’ve been efficiently rehabilitated and launched into the wild.

Mama Odie remains to be alive and kicking! The rescue posted latest photographs of her from New Yr’s Eve 2025, stating that she’s doing nicely in her outdated age. She’s keen on her “plush mattress,” loves being served “wholesome meals,” and nonetheless adores being “near infants as a lot as attainable.” You’ll be able to watch her clicking at an orphan throughout the room — and the orphan clicking again.