People do eat possums. I was told it was good idea to feed them a few days before killing them to get some of the nasty stuff out of their system. They will eat carrion and just about anything else from chickasaw plums, water moccasins (They are immune to snake venom), to ticks.
I think my dogs just killed another one. I can smell it and have not yet found what they killed yet. One of my dogs has been rolling on something dead.
