Speaking of connections to our usernames, I have a story.
So there are a bunch of stray cats by where I live, and each year it gets pretty cold here, so a few years back we built a trap door in the floor of our otherwise-enclosed porch. On colder nights we open it so the strays can come in, have a bite to eat, and keep warm. And no, Kathy, I don't care that that's against the community bylaws, everyone knows you just hate cats and no one here actually likes you anyway.
So anyway, for the past few years we've only gotten cats and this one really fat raccoon who occasionally comes to mooch off of us, but as of a few nights ago this adorable opossum started showing up. One night I caught it sleeping in one of my laundry baskets because I forgot to take it out of the porch and it was, like, lethally cute. Anywho, last night the little guy showed up again and it doesn't seem as skittish as some of the strays do, or even other opossums, and even let's me get decently close to it. Of course, having been on the receiving end of wild animal bites in the past, obviously I'm not getting too close, but the two of us have some sort of mutual respect for each other and that's really neat. I think the dude has fleas though since it has some sort of hair loss near its butt, and that's usually from stress or fleas. Definitely not mange, from the looks of it. Originally, I thought it was just an old timer, but it has a decently youngish face.
Still don't know what to name him though. I'm only assuming it's a male due to size reasons, too, so I'll give it a gender neutral name. I still don't think John Newman the cat appreciates the name I gave her.