The animal seemed disorientated and was salivating (Picture: Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge)

This bizarre picture shows a hungover opossum recovering after a big night on the sauce.

The cheeky marsupial broke into a shop in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and proceeded to get hammered on bourbon whiskey.

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You might think that would be lethal for a small animal, but the opossum was able to handle the booze.

It sobered up at Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge and has now been released unharmed.


Posting a photo of the animal on Facebook, the refuge said: ‘On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: a drunk opossum in a box!

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: a drunk opossum in a box! This sly, and currently slurred,… Geplaatst door Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge op Vrijdag 1 december 2017

‘This sly, and currently slurred, opossum snuck its way into a liquor store and discovered some holiday cheer of its own.



‘A police officer brought the animal to us for medical treatment and is expected to be released soon.’

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The animal had been found next to a broken and empty bottle of bourbon.

Michelle Pettis, a technician at the refuge, told the Panama City News Herald that the female opossum seemed disorientated, was excessively salivating and was pale.

She said: ‘We loaded her up with fluids to help flush out any alcohol toxins. She was good a couple of days later.’

Store owner Cash Moore added: ‘She came in from the outside and was up in the rafters, and when she came through she knocked a bottle of liquor off the shelf.

‘When she got down on the floor she drank the whole damn bottle.’