[Mekatra]

It's somewhat unlikely that you saw an opossum with rabies. They're incredibly resistant to it.

Actually they're kind of amazing little critters and I love them. I wanted one as a pet when I was very young and would howl in anguish when I saw them dead on the side of the road.

But yeah, they're kind of superpowered little critters. The're all but immune to rabies and snake venom, rate higher on intelligence tests than both dogs and cats, and they help clean up decaying animal corpses. They do tend to foam at the mouth, vomit, drool, defecate or faint as defense mechanisms though... they are a bit weird.