A woman discovers an opossum wedged upside down in a tree fork and carefully steps in to help. After freeing him, she quickly realizes something isn’t right. The injured animal is taken in for care, ...

DEAR JOAN: We have an opossum living at the base of a shrub in our side yard. We generally don’t go near there, only when we take the garbage to the curb weekly. Avian influenza presumed in Marin ...