FORT WALTON BEACH, FLA.—An opossum that apparently drank bourbon after breaking into a Florida liquor store sobered up at a wildlife rescue centre and was released unharmed. Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge officials say the opossum was brought in by a Fort Walton Beach, Florida, police officer on Nov. 24. A liquor store employee found the animal next to a broken and empty bottle of bourbon. “A worker there found the opossum up on a shelf next to a cracked open bottle of liquor with nothing in it,” said Michelle Pettis, a technician at the refuge. “She definitely wasn’t fully acting normal.”Pettis told the Panama City News Herald the female opossum appeared disoriented, was excessively salivating and was pale.

Source: thestar December 02, 2017 17:37 UTC