Cake-eating opossum, now healthy, gets a second chance after its release in a Gretna neighborhood.

No crumbs were left behind at Cake Picnic in San Francisco on Saturday as attendees gawked, photographed and ultimately ate 1,387 cakes.

One real estate agent was shocked to find an opossum on her back porch and unraveled on a couch after an encounter with a Costco cake.

Opossums are opportunistic feeders. When a family left a Costco tuxedo cake on the patio, an opossum helped itself, eating the whole thing.

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An opossum in Nebraska may have thought it was her lucky day when he found an entire Costco chocolate cake. But the 'Cake Bandit' ended up needing emergency care after eating the whole thing.

The opossum wound up getting sick after eating the cake and is getting treated at a Nebraska facility.

Nebraska woman returns home to find an opossum sitting on her back porch after eating an entire chocolate cake.

An opossum ate a whole Costco chocolate cake, according to Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, and many people on the internet say they can relate to her.

Discover the hilarious tale of 'Cake Bandit,' an opossum who devoured a Costco chocolate mousse cake. Support wildlife rescue with fun stories.

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From there, the opossum cake bandit was born, taking the internet and the world by storm after posts on social media amassed over 17,000 reactions and counting.