This week, PETA decided to share a tip with all the animal lovers out there who may run across a possum that appears to be dead. They illustrated it with this picture.
If you find an opossum who appears to be dead, doing THIS could save lives! https://t.co/2xKce25JQc
Wait, what in the actual fuck?
Are they...are they suggesting we do THIS?
This tweet from Twitter user Jackson Knight, which has gone viral, pretty much says it all.
PETA really think I'm about to walk up to what appears to be a dead ass possum and open up its coochie pouch to see… https://t.co/GU0rbLGGIx
Everyone was totally shook by the tweet.
@jacksonknightt BITCH COOCHIE POUCH
Like, WTF PETA, are you trying to get us killed?
@jacksonknightt @SwallowThatShit so @peta really telling people to open an animal that literally plays dead to survive and carries rabies?
Nobody got time for that.
@McDomalds I am so dead! Lmao who the fuck has the time
PETA is the most extra extra to ever extra.
@Rebeccadannie @jacksonknightt wtttttfffff why they gotta be so extraaaaaaaaa
Others were like, why would I want to save one?
@jacksonknightt @spiderlou2099 Those things are horrid creatures to begin with, why would I want to save one, let alone a litter?
Don't they carry rabies?
@peta @k_manning2 they play dead sometimes soooo what if you do this and it bites you? I mean I guess I could live with rabies. Oh wait 😕
And wouldn't performing a possum C-section be straight up disgusting?
@jacksonknightt but then AFTER that they want you to take the dead one to a vet with the babies inside it
ALSO...don't possums play dead? Isn't that, like, their thing?
@peta possums always play dead. Who you tryna give rabies. nah fam. y'all got me fucked up.
We are gonna be screwed if they play dead and bite us.
@peta this how our moms going to look at us. Cause we done possibly caught rabies from a bite and yall president do… https://t.co/aARSG93Tld
Seriously, I am not touching this.
.@peta like this one? Jk it's already dead
In conclusion: No.
@peta
Goodbye.
@peta
We are out.
@peta
OK, fine, here's at least one person who's cool with this.
@peta -People are misunderstanding this! You would do this to a dead possum - to save it's babies!
In response to the reaction, a PETA spokesperson had this to say:
PETA encourages people to look out for wildlife in need, including mother opossums' orphaned babies. Every one of those retweets spreads this lifesaving message a little bit further. If each person who retweeted this joke also helped an animal in need, we'd really be getting somewhere!