Pepé Le Pew, Rascal and Pogo maybe cute characters on the screen, but skunks, raccoons and opossums are a nuisance in the backyard. They can even be dangerous. Classified as vertebrate pests by the UC ...

After last weekend’s storm, a scrawny raccoon, a hipster skunk and a tubby opossum took a stroll through Hardberger Park West. They stopped as they neared the glow coming from the closes-at-midnight ...

An adult female opossum came to San Diego Humane Society’s Ramona Wildlife Center with significant wounds on her face, body and tail. Courtesy San Diego Humane Society A total of 15 of the 18 mammals ...

Based on the frequency of garbage-can diving and attic prowling, citizens of the suburbs might conclude Ohio holds more than enough raccoons. Other furry critters not so much. Opossums and skunks ...

TRAVERSE CITY — A sure sign of spring is in the air, occasionally wafting through the woods or even residential neighborhoods. The stinky smell of skunks is returning to northern Michigan as the ...

Bins full of syringes, rubber nipples and feeding tubes line a wall of the baby animal intake room at the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge. On a sterile metal tabletop next to the bins, three large ...

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An opossum that apparently drank bourbon after breaking into a Florida liquor store sobered up at a wildlife rescue center and was released unharmed. Emerald Coast ...

RAMONA, Calif. (CNS) — A total of 15 of the 18 mammals brought to San Diego Humane Society's Ramona Wildlife Center for care earlier this month have been returned to the wild, it was announced Monday.

This animal wasn't playing possum in a Florida liquor store. It was truly drunk. An opossum sneaked into Cash's Liquor Store in Fort Walton Beach the day after Thanksgiving and apparently helped ...

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. -- An opossum that apparently drank bourbon after breaking into a liquor store sobered up at a wildlife rescue center and was released unharmed. A liquor store employee found ...