We visited Ed and Carol Gulley yesterday, it was time to say goodbye the Bob the possum. Ed found Bob out int he barn starving and nearly frozen during the winter, he thinks Bob was eyeing one of the chickens for a meal. Ed picked Bob up, put him in a crate, kept him dry and warm and began feeding him carrots, turkey, carrots and other vegetables. He and Carol nursed Bob back to health.

Ed is an Animal Whisperer, he was able to stroke and touch Bob while getting  hissed at but never bitten. Bob has fully recovered and Ed’s son Jeremy came over with  his family (most of them on four-wheelers) to put Bob in a fish net and take him out to the woods, where he will be freed.

Over the years, Ed and Carol have rescued countless animals from hawks to barn cats to possums, wild Turkeys and various birds. Animals are at the center of their lives, as they are for so many farmers. Ed said goodbye to Bob and then he was gone.