TARRANT COUNTY, Texas – Not every shopper you might see in Tarrant County is human; in the last week, two separate shops have had to remove opossums from their storefronts.<\/p>\n
Shoe shopping opossum in Arlington <\/p>\n
CTSY: Arlington Police Department <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
At DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse at The Parks Mall in Arlington, patrons noticed an opossum roaming the store. It’s unclear what kind of shoes the opossum was looking for.<\/p>\n
An off-duty Arlington Police Sergeant was working nearby and removed the opossum with his bare hands.<\/p>\n
Arlington PD humorously noted in a Facebook post that the opossum was “released without charges.”<\/p>\n
Acrobatic opossum in Fort Worth <\/p>\n
What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
“I couldn\u2019t believe what I was seeing.”<\/p>\n
On July 23, Wylie Branch captured video of an opossum walking along the rafters at a Fort Worth Walmart.<\/p>\n
“Someone said \u2018look, an opossum\u2019,” Branch said. “Everyone in the store was looking up watching for its next move.”<\/p>\n
Opossums are known to be extraordinary climbers<\/a>, using both their paws and prehensile tails to scale high places.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story comes from the Arlington Police Department and Storyful.<\/p>\n Tarrant County<\/a>Arlington<\/a>Fort Worth<\/a>Pets and Animals<\/a>Viral<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TARRANT COUNTY, Texas – Not every shopper you might see in Tarrant County is human; in the last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[49887,2442,3,74050,79,72488,4652,25,1154,201],"class_list":["post-792383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-arlington","tag-fort-worth","tag-news","tag-pets-animals","tag-science","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us","tag-viral","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}