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Four Baby Possums Rescued After Someone Flings Their Dead Mother Off Of a Driveway with Newborn Young Clinging To Her
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Wildlife preservationists are nursing four baby possums in incubators after someone appears to have flung the body of their pregnant mother, killed by a car and with her babies still clinging to her, off of a shared driveway and over a stone wall in New Canaan early Thursday, officials say. Shortly before 9 a.m., an East Cross Road woman spotted the dead marsupial in her driveway—eight to 10 live newborns in a pouch and clinging to her—as she was dropping off her youngest two kids at West School, a girl in the second grade and son in the third. The resident, Amedee Maggard, phoned Weston-based Wildlife In Crisis and the Animal Control section of the New Canaan Police Department about the discovery. But by the time she returned to the driveway and met Animal Control Officer Allyson Halm there later in the morning, the mother possum was gone, and only a pile of blood remained where she had been. Halm promptly set about searching for the animal in the area and found her, “hanging off a branch” where she obviously had been flung aside by someone, with the helpless young “scattered left and right,” she said.