What's amazing is how many ticks and other insects they each each day... Plus, If I remember, we get our anti venom from these guys.. They are ugly though. Once when our kids were young, I woke up, came downstairs to this stench coming from the kitchen. I see the kid standing next to the animal trap I had. It's on the kitchen table. My son is feeding an angry animal bologna. It's a possum. Good sized.. He liked the bologna. It told him not to come back till he took a shower and let him go. It's 30 years later, and I can still smell that smell..