Yum!!
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (349888)
Rockingham, Australia
April 3, 2025 7:15pm CST
We’ve had some really hot weather while we’ve been house-sitting and we’ve enjoyed some really delicious watermelon. Vince usually cuts us up a bowlful each.
He took his outside today and accidentally dropped two pieces. We left it there and sure enough it wasn’t long and the quenda came along and decided he’d do us a favour and clean up the watermelon before the ants moved in.
I was tempted to not crop the photo and leave in a plant pot so you’d get a better idea of the size of the quenda but couldn’t resist giving you a really good look at it. It’s about the size of a smallish cat.
Please don’t say he makes you squirm. He’s a marsupial, not a rodent.
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17 responses
@JudyEv (349888)
• Rockingham, Australia
3h
@wolfgirl569 He won't know what's hit hiim (figuratively speaking) when the owners return! 
@terri0824 (5095)
• United States
15h
With that long snout...looks as if it could be an ant eater!
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@JudyEv (349888)
• Rockingham, Australia
3h
They are omnivorous and often dig in the garden to eat roots, caterpillars, whatever they can find. I wonder how they manage with such a long snout and their teeth not meeting.
@snowy22315 (187098)
• United States
14h
I guess not all of us have the fondness for them that you do..
. I am glad all enjoyed the watermelon!
. I am glad all enjoyed the watermelon!1 person likes this
@JudyEv (349888)
• Rockingham, Australia
3h
Although I don't really understand it, I've given up trying to convert you all.
@allknowing (143248)
• India
8h
I c an never get to like what I see in the photo
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@DaddyEvil (144865)
• United States
4 Apr
I'd be interested in seeing you growing pot plants, too. 
(Yes, I know what you mean but it's still funny to me. 
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Your friend still LOOKS like a rodent even if he isn't one... I'd probably still have the "normal" for me reaction to him, which is to jump and move away from him. He looks too much like a rat. (Any time a rat tried to move into the barn when I was growing up, dad would send one of the older boys out to sit quietly and shoot it. He hated rats more than anything else.)1 person likes this
@DaddyEvil (144865)
• United States
19h
@JudyEv Rats will run away, too, if you surprise them. I've never seen bold rats like they show on television in the big cities here.
We only saw one once every few years on the farm.
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@Marilynda1225 (84168)
• United States
15h
I bet he was very happy that Vince dropped that watermelon. He is kind of cute
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@JudyEv (349888)
• Rockingham, Australia
3h
I guess we're a bit more used to funny little creatures. I have to admit he's a bit like a rat.
@moffittjc (123415)
• Gainesville, Florida
9h
He's a giant rat whose tail got cut off!
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@JudyEv (349888)
• Rockingham, Australia
3h
No, no, no! He's a cute little quenda whose tail got bit off!
@Deepizzaguy (108183)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
10h
The image of the marsupial does not scare me,
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@JudyEv (349888)
• Rockingham, Australia
3h
That's good. He is only little and totally harmless so there is no need for people to be scared of him.
@LindaOHio (185612)
• United States
20h
I find the Australian animals fascinating. They've evolved on an island and were not influenced by other critters.
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@LindaOHio (185612)
• United States
Just now
@JudyEv I'm a firm believer in evolution; but I believe God had a hand in all of it. Otherwise it's just too amazing to believe.
@JudyEv (349888)
• Rockingham, Australia
3h
He does look a bit like a rat. Mostly he hops like a rabbit but sometimes just 'walks'.
