So funny story
Today I went to the pet store to pick up some stress coat stuff for my fishtank, and as I was walking down the front section I noticed someone was holding a very un-doglike ????
Then I looked closer and saw it's tail wrapped around her leg.
Turns out that someone in an animal rehab program brought one of
Opossum
's cousins out shopping. Some horrible person kicked the poor little guy in the face so hard he went blind, so the woman took him in and there's just this. . .perfectly happy tame opossum puttering about sightlessly, sniffing the smells of the pet store. She set him in the cart as she went to pay and he just assessed where he was for a bit and then predictably started to climb out.
I guess I don't really think that much about how scaly their tails are when I'm not looking at one in person. Definitely the most interesting pet store encounter I've ever had.