I am a wildlife rehabilitator so I have a love for these little critters.  The opossum hideouts are located in a variety of areas including stumps, haystacks, vine tangles, atics, garages, road culverts, hollow trees, rock piles, under buildings and in the abandoned burrows of other animals.  Opossums are not territorial and do not maintain separate home ranges.

They are exceptionally non-aggressive and non-destructive. They will not harm people or pets. They are more immune to many diseases than other animals and are far less likely to carry rabies.

Opossums are beneficial to the environment because they eat insects pests, snails and slugs.  They have a remarkable resistance to poisonous snakebite such as the rattlesnake, cottonmouth and Asiatic cobra.

Opossums do not hibernate and they are active at night.

I have acquired most of my baby opossums because of kind people who see a opossum that has been hit by a car and they go into the pouch, if it is a female and scoop out the babies.