Sesame the Opossum

Watching the stinklings at @allthingswildrehab play bumper snoots 🌝🙌 Happy Thursday, friends!!!! Give @allthingswildrehab a follow to keep watching The Stinkling Show with us!!! 😍❤️🙏🦨🦨🦨🦨

To whomever filed the lost banana report: unfortunatley, we were unable to locate your item. Please let me or my colleague Moonpie know if you misplaced any other delicious treats 🙏🍊 xo Muffin #lostandfound #opossums #possums #babypossum #babyopossum #outdoors #banana #bananas

You’re traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s a signpost up ahead: Your next stop: the Splash Zone. 💚 Today’s goal: focus on loving animals, protecting nature, and embracing imagination ❤️ #soymilk #staystrong #veganfortheanimals

How can we hold hands with Baby Yoda if he doesn't have fingers to interlace ours with?? FoxTales Wildlife Rehab 😭💖 xo Muffin Follow our friends at FoxTales Wildlife Rehab to see the babiest yodas to ever yoda <3 #babyraccoon #raccoon #rescue #babyanimals #animals #love #cutenessoverload

It's me, Muffin!

Activity number one was to rehydrate ... but honestly this whole day has been jam packed with activities! It's me, Muffin! I am editor-in-chief of Muffin-zine, a mini hand-drawn magazine made by me. I was cold and hungry when I was rescue but now I'm warm and rehydrating and thinking up the next issue of the Muffin-zine to share with you!

Tail surfing and boogie boarding with mom! Perfect form from these baby athletes! 🏄‍♀️🥰❤️ Like opossums, beavers are integral to our ecosystems in their own unique ways: for one, the dams beavers build can restore wetlands that keep other wildlife alive during times of drought. The fur trade decimated beaver populations, but their importance and right to live (and build dams) is finally becoming known and appreciated. Two of our favorite beaver channels to follow are @hmuraco and @mikedigout!! Check them out to learn more about beavers and to see them swimming, surfing, and smiling in rehab and wild settings! Ps — do you recognize Starry and Daffodil?? They are blowing kisses from the ipad in heaven <3 <3 <3 :) #beavers #surfing #opossum #possums #babyanimals #babies #cute #kawaii #fluffy #nature #wildlife

Lunch with @opossumtown!! TOMORROW (Sat 7/6) we’ll be at another Opossum Town called Fredericksburg, Virginia, to party with you and @awesomepossumz1 at Possum-bilities!! Saturday from 1pm to 4pm! Please pop by to meet some educational ambassadors, eat some vegan opossum-shaped cookies, stock up on Sessie Merch, enjoy the expansive Possum-bilities shop filled with bazillions of animal/wildlife-themed gifts, get your Sessie book(s) signed and/or personalized, and celebrate SEEDLINGS with like-minded friends! You can do other things too — Sky’s the limit! We can’t wait to snack and party with you ❤️🙏🙌🥳🥰 Pls follow @opossumtown and @awesomepossumz1 — they’re our beautiful seedling friends!! #lunch #brunch #brunchwithfriends #saturday #party #partytime #vegan #cookies #vegancookies #opossum #possum #babyopossum #babypossum

It's Wilbur - Chronicles of a wonky kitten! Cats and opossums can get along surprisingly well! Especially if the cat and opossum are around the same size. Opossums are non-confrontational by nature and are unlikely to instigate fights. But if the cat is big and the opossum is a baby, the adult cat will typically see the opossum as prey. It’s important to keep pet cats indoors — for their own safety and that of native wildlife! Wilbur stayed with us at Sesame’s B&B over the weekend!! You can get your own Small Sesame in our Merch Shop at https://bit.ly/miniplushies — you just can’t have Wilbur’s because he’s never letting go 🌝❤️💖

We haven’t found any platty pies in the wild yet, BUT we learned from our friends at @platypus_ci (who captured this video) that the rescue protocol is the same for platties as it is for opossums! Namely: Only interfere if the animal is injured or clearly orphaned Handle carefully (with platties, handle gently by the tail and avoid their venomous ankle-spurs; with opossums avoid their teeth) Secure them in a quiet, dark place and whisk them to a rehabber immediately! And most importantly: Leave the belly rubs to the professionals! 🌝🥳❤️ In this case, the researchers at @platypus_ci knew this little one was too young to have venom in his spurs yet and were able to examine him and release him back to his home. He was observed a few weeks later, wild and happy and thriving! Turns out he was just a little bad at swimming. This is because he only just left the nest. He’s a better swimmer now ❤️🌝 If you want to be a professional, you can! Volunteering is a great way to start. Many rehabbers rescue animals in addition to having full-time jobs (sometimes in animal care and many times not). It’s not easy, but it is fun! #platypus #platypusconservationinitiative #unsw #newsouthwales #newsouthwalesaustralia #loveanimals

Happy Monday!!! We're taste testing... everything!! 🌝🙈🌸🌺🌻

Scratchy tongue, perfectly adapted for getting every last bit of papaya baby food off the plate!! ❤️🌝🙏