‘Choco-holic’ opossum hospitalized after annihilating entire Costco chocolate cake: ‘Too much of a good thing’

An opossum with a sweet tooth was hospitalized after it annihilated an entire Costco chocolate mousse cake that was left outside on the porch of a Nebraska real estate agent’s home this week.

Kim Doggett and her son discovered the distressed critter curled up on her patio furniture on Sunday, multiple outlets reported.

“She didn’t look so great – she was kind of panting,” Doggett told The Washington Post. 

Chocolate-colored paw prints covered her beige couch – and the nearly devoured dessert was on the floor of her deck, the reports said.

“I always have a house full and we cook a lot and when you run out of room in the fridge you just sit it on the table outside in the winter,” Doggett told Forbes about leaving the decadent dessert outside.

Doggett and her son attempted to move the nocturnal marsupial away from their Omaha home to no avail — before questioning, and later googling, if chocolate is as toxic to opossums as it is to dogs and other pets.

While opossums will eat almost anything – chocolate could be poisonous to the mild-mannered mammals, they learned.

“I knew there was no way I could just leave a sick opossum there overnight,” she told The Washington Post. “Obviously, it had too much of a good thing.”

The nearly six-pound Virginia opossum – the only marsupial species in the US – was admitted to Nebraska Wildlife Rehab on Monday, where the furry creature is expected to make a full recovery, the wildlife rescue shared on social media.

The staff cheekily coined the animal the “Cake Bandit,” with the organization designing custom-made Opossum Cake Bandit t-shirts to support their native wildlife saving mission.

But for now, they said the “cranky” critter is on a restricted diet. 

“Sometimes a sweet tooth just can’t wait until Valentine’s Day. With some time in rehab (and a diet reset), this choco-holic should be stabilized enough to return to the wild but until then, she is definitely a little cranky about our strict “zero chocolate” policy,” Nebraska Wildlife Rehab posted to Facebook.

“Same, opossum…. same.”

The now-viral post had received thousands of comments from sympathetic observers on social media as of Saturday.

“We’ve all been there, girl,” one person said under the wildlife rescue’s Facebook post.

Another commenter said, “It’s okay, lil dude.”

“I don’t know how to act around chocolate cake either.”