The dog just left a live 'possum at my feet.

[trackfan]

I was out in the backyard at my bar, having a drink and watching TV, while the dog was running around the yard. I heard some commotion, then he came by the bar, stopped for a second, then trotted away. I looked down, and there was a little possum at my feet - eyes open, and not looking too bad. I took the dog inside in order to give the possum a chance to get away, and when I went back out, he was gone. The dog is nine years old, and I thought he was past that sort of thing.

[Richard Steele]

1. Maybe the dog was trying to help?

If the possum was "playing possum", the dog may
have had a "what's wrong with this picture" feeling,
and carried the possum to you because he figured you
would know what to do.

I have a friend whose dog did that with an injured possum;
that's why the possibility occurred to me.

[trackfan]

2. Could be. He just seemed to be doing what he thought he should be doing.

He got the possum, dropped it at my feet, and went on his way.

[Richard Steele]

5. That sounds like a smart dog to me. nm

[Nevernose]

3. God I miss living in the South

These days "owning a dog" means hoping the chihuahau rememembers to use the doggy door to the atrium.

[susanna]

4. They're NEVER past that sort of thing.

My geriatric (RIP) Akita girl once brought me a live bird that she'd been carrying in her mouth - at eleven years old. She plopped it by my feet, where it promptly recovered itself and flew off, went to her water bowl for a drink, then got irritated when she looked back and the bird wasn't dead and sitting at my feet. She bounded the yard looking for it. Yep. Really.

Never underestimate the power of a really bored, hunting-bred domesticated dog. :-)

[idgiehkt]

6. it probably played dead

and they believed it, lol.

[barb162]

7. That's a smart little opposum.

[xchrom]

8. the dog was saying: ''he followed me home -- can i keep him?''

actually the dog probably figured something was wrong with this scenario -- and brought the problem to you to figure out.

[Wcross]

9. I came home one night after work and it was dark out......

I always ate something on the drive to work in the morning and when I got home the standard procedure for my dogs would be to jump in the truck when I went to unlock the gate. They sometimes found a small morsel to eat.
I am walking back to the truck and see what I thought was a paper towel from my truck and a dog standing over it. I reach down to pick it up only to grab a live slimy possum! Talk about disturbing. Those things are so nasty not even the vultures will eat them.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. I'm a dog psychic, let me channel your dog.

rrrrr... rrr... woof! rr... THIS OPOSSUMS NEEDSES THE CPR! woof!