Nanny finds a baby possum on her morning walk, wraps it in a diaper, and becomes its mom for the day; possum ends up growing up in a wildlife preserve: 'I swaddled him and put him in the cupholder'

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jul 25, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

Baby animals have a way of melting our hearts, especially for people with an overdeveloped caregiver mentality. This nanny, a woman flooded with maternal instinct, was the lucky first responder to a downed baby possum. Likely fallen from the back of its mother, this baby critter was saved by the likes of the perfect animal mother: A human nanny on a walk with one of the kids in her care. 

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  • When you find a baby opossum on your walk so you wrap it in a diaper and stroll it home
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  • Leaving work Leaving work with the baby opposum you found on your walk this morning.
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  • After returning to her boss's house, she was happy to report that now, instead of one baby, she had two babies in her care. One was human, the other was a baby possum, barely bigger than a mouse. With only 7 hours until the end of her shift, all she had to do was keep this little one swaddled, craddled, loved and safe, before returning him to a rescue that would be its new mama. Until he's strong enough, he'll be growing up alongside other orphaned baby possums, and they'll all be released into the wilderness together—as a family of misfits..

  • When you were laying on the side of the road an hour ago and now your front seat chillin
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  • I found him on a walk while I was working. I had a stroller because I was walking a little boy that I take care of, and I just so happened to see this possum on the grass in between the sidewalk and the street. And he was pretending like we was de d. And he was so little at
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  • first I thought he was a mouse-a big mouse. At first I was sad because I thought he was de d but he wasn't very good at it because he moved a little bit. The only thing I could think to grab him with a was a disposable
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  • diaper because I knew that it would hold him well and I could swaddle him. It went reall well, I scooped him up, I swaddled him, and put him in the cupholder of the stroller. WHen I got back to work, my boss gave me a blanket to wrap him up.
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  • Before I even left work, my husband was already looking for local wildlife rescues because he knows I love animals and I love caring for things and I would be tempted to keep this baby. He was only with me for a total of about 7 hours. He was super
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  • chill in the beginning but started to get active towards the end. I never intended to keep him, but the thought crossed. mymind. I'm truly an animal lover and I wanted to do what was best for him. So he's with a wildlife rescue called Motorcity Possum Rescue that specializes in
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  • possums and raccoons. I'm glad that I brought him in. She said he would be placed with similarly sized babies, grow up with them, then be released into the wild.
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  • Just when you thought I was Out of opossum content
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  • Reply to Lucy's comment Gonna tell my kids this is the og labubu
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  • Sleepy Stewie Look at those toofers
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  • I'm glad you made it, Stewie. L-I-V-I-N
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