Opossum in tree

For two weeks I tried to locate the source of a horrible rotting odour that had permeated the front of my house. When my neighbours began to notice buzzards in my front yard, that gave away the mystery. Pockets, my cat, was chasing an opossum on the roof and the opossum leapt off the roof into a holly tree and got its hind legs so tightly wedged in the fork of the branches it hung upside-down while the blood ran to its head and killed it. This reminded me of stories I had read where hunters found deer with their hoofs wedged in the fork of trees – most likely the work of Bigfoot. Greg May Orlando, Florida