I love possums! I used to have one who would sleep on my front porch during the day, curled up in a nest of leaves behind my recycling bin. He was quite safe there as we would walk within half a foot of him to get in/out our front door and he didn't mind us at all, nor us him. Even the dogs didn't bug him. We have a lot where we live and I'm happy to have them because they eat the ticks.
I love them, my wife hates them. My mom hated them.
My wife just wants them gone from the earth. Big rats! I know that they are not rodents, but marsupials. To her there is no difference.
Ours are more fluffy in the winter and are considered to be prime fur trappers' prizes.
We had a very large one take up winter residence in our garage one year (many years ago). My wife was panicked and it HAD to go. RIGHT NOW!
We live inside city limits of a small town, so I could not just take one of my guns and shoot it and she was NOT willing to wait for the animal control squad to come the next day. It HAD to go, now.
I had to use my pellet gun, which means a head shot or severely torturing the animal shooting it multiple times. It was ugly. I had to get it outside and scare it to the point it went into "playing 'possum" mode so I could get a clean shot. It weighed thirty seven pounds according to my fishing gear hand scale.
And it was beautiful, full winter coat, but it had pissed off (scared) a hard minded woman.
I have wild rabbits that eat my crops in the spring, but I am not a kill everything guy. Yes. I hunt and I take game, but to just kill something (other than an insect) because it annoys you is just wrong.
I still regret that killing.