Found A Few Month Old Possum In Attic

By cleaning things up you re removing the opportunity for the opossum to be left alone in its solitude.

Found a few month old possum in attic.

Using traps are the easiest way to get rid of them and you can use the traps. Position one or two high wattage lights in the attic. Bright lights discourage possums and most pest mammals as they prefer to den in dark enclosures. Possums are great climbers.

Soak a few rags in ammonia and scatter them in the attic. The baby opossums usually cling to their mother but they drop off one by one as they grow and it s very common for small ones to rome around in the attic and fall down walls or other cavities. An attic floor with an opossum resident can quickly be covered with feces and debris resulting in a putrid stench and damage to underlying flooring. If your attic is disorganized and let s be honest most attics are opossums see this as prime real estate to settle down and spend a few weeks or months.

It will more than likely scurry away as these animals are very shy and passive in nature. She had several young. There they will call out with a kind of chirping call and if not removed will die and cause an odor problem. Getting rid of them in the attic.

This opossum in the attic tried to hide down a crevice but i found it. They can make their way up the walls or access the roof via downspouts or adjacent trees. Prevention with any wild animal the best way to keep and opossum out of your home to eliminate any reason the opossum might want to stay there to begin with. The noxious odor is likely to discourage the possum from nesting in the attic.

Here s a mother opossum in an attic. To get rid of possums in the attic you should start with traps either by diy possum traps or commercial traps.