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From: June Campbell
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Staunton, VA
Hello, I live in Augusta County,Va., and the other day I found a dead animal in with my cats. It looked like a opposum, but sort of like a raccoon, too. Can a opposum breed with a raccoon? I probably should have called someone to pick it up...but I just buried it. Thanks, June Campbell

 
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From: Laura Kammin
Visiting Extension Specialist, Pollution Prevention
Extension-Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program
lkammin@illinois.edu
No, opossums and raccoons do not breed with one another.

 
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