Opossum With Rare Disease Was Saved From Cold Harsh Wilderness And Put Into Nice Warm Sweaters

The stranger found the 3-4-month-old opossum in SW Lubbock. Gail Barnes, executive director of SPWRC, watched on camera as the man dropped off a box in front of the center's intake building. She was warned beforehand that it was going to be a possum, but she didn't think that at first. When she brought the box inside, a hairless arm came out of the box, and she thought Oh my gosh, he dropped off a hairless cat. The opossum was instantly put in an incubator for rehabilitation. Peach has an auto-immune condition called alopecia, which causes hair loss.