10/01/2026
Last year, one of our WRT members welcomed three tiny female opossums into her care. They weren’t siblings, and they needed names to keep everyone straight. So naturally, they became Marcia, Jan, and Cindy!
Cindy was the smallest of the three.
When the girls were old enough and ready to return to the wild, they were released at a friend’s farm where opossums were already known to visit the barn. Food was left out to give them a soft landing as they adjusted to life on their own.
And adjust they did! Marcia, Jan, and Cindy came and went as they pleased. Sometimes weeks would pass without a sighting before one would suddenly appear again, grab a bite to eat, and disappear back into the wild.
Then, this spring, a familiar little face showed up.
It was Cindy—and she wasn’t alone!
The smallest of last year’s three foster babies had returned to the farm, this time as a mom with 13 babies of her own! She and her enormous little family stuck around throughout the summer.
For wildlife rehabilitators, the goal is always to give an animal the care it needs until it can return to where it belongs: the wild. Most of the time, that means saying goodbye without knowing exactly where life will take them.
Every once in a while, though, you get a glimpse of what comes next. ❤️
