Omaha, Nebraska resident Kim Doggett walked outside last Sunday to find her chocolate cake on the floor of her back porch, brown paw prints on her new beige couch and a panting opossum lying on top of it.

Now fans have flooded Nebraska Wildlife Rehab, where the opossum was admitted on February 10, with messages of support for the viral “Cake Bandit” who ate an entire Costco cake.

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

Earlier that night, Doggett asked her son to take her homemade peanut butter balls outside to the deck, as their refrigerator was full.

“We just (ran) out of room,” Doggett said. “And in the wintertime, it works out great, because you don’t have to try to slam everything in there. You can set it out on the back deck.”

Upon opening the door, her son quickly shut it and refused to go back out.

“There’s a possum on your couch,” Hayden Doggett, 22, said to her.

His mom didn’t believe him at first.

“I really thought he was messing with me, so I went over and I turned the light on, I opened the door, and I was like, ‘Oh my,'” Kim Doggett said. “And then I was like, ‘Oh, it ate the Costco cake.’ The whole thing almost was sitting on the ground next to the couch.”

The two tried to shoo the opossum away, but with no luck, she began to consider whether the chocolate could have been poisonous to the animal. Kim Doggett then called the American Humane Society, which retrieved and transported the animal to be evaluated.

Eating the entire cake likely saved the opossum’s life, Nebraska Wildlife Rehab said. The “Cake Bandit” is currently being treated for both her recent dietary habits and unrelated lead toxicity.

“It appears that she was lucky to have been caught red-handed, because it allowed her to come to our hospital and get diagnosed with what can become a fatal condition in wildlife,” Laura Stastny, the group’s executive director, said in an email to CNN.

Since her admittance, the organisation has designed T-shirts with “Cake Bandit” on the front, and the back displaying the animal’s rehab admission note: “Opossum was brought in due to having eaten an entire Costco chocolate cake. He was panting a lot, however mobile and alert.”

The opossum is expected to make a full recovery and will be returned to her natural habitat in a few weeks, Stastny said.

“We are optimistic about her future release, but it will likely be toward the end of March or the beginning of April before she is released into the wild,” she added.