Once an opossum gets cozy in your attic, walls or under the deck or porch, it can make a mess and cause a lot of damage that can cost thousands of dollars to fix. Opossums will also return year after year, using your attic as a home base - they have no problem living alongside humans. The hole opossums use as entry will become a great place for leaks to form and a passageway for rodents, raccoons, birds and insects.
Opossums are not pleasant roommates. Adults are stocky and weigh about as much as a house cat, between eight and 14 pounds. Imagine the opossum noises from all the scratching, walking, mating, fighting, playing, hissing and the crying of their babies.
Opossums in Attics
Opossums will get into any opening they can squeeze their heads through. Opossums can enter into a roof's overhangs, shingles, gable vents and where two roofs meet. Opossums can even get into the attic through crevices in the chimney. Opossums are very opportunistic animals and will use any hole to enter, even if another animal has made it.
An opossum getting onto your roof is no trick, either. Opossums easily climb trees and other structures so they can get onto your roof and into your home or business. Opossum tails are unique, like a monkey's, and allow them to balance and grasp, and opossums occasionally can hang from the tail, as well.
Opossums in Chimeny's
There have been many cases during spring where opossums live and sleep throughout the day in a chimney. At night, the opossums will enter the home and raid the kitchen, leaving a mess in their wake. Not only will you have to clean up after this rampage, but don't forget the disease and bugs the opossum will bring along with it.
In addition, what seems to be a safe trip to the fridge for a glass of milk may turn into a confrontation with a mother opossum protecting her babies. If it feels threatened by a human, an opossum may growl, hiss, bite, bare its teeth, screech and even leak a smelly green fluid from its anal glands.
Male opossums hide out in the chimney to brave the winter weather. Female opossums live in chimneys because they provide a good place to have and raise their babies. Opossums can even get into the attic through crevices in the chimney.
Even one opossum in your chimney can make a lot of opossum noise. They regularly hiss, screech and click. Opossum babies will squeal or chatter - this may be what the animal sound is in your chimney.
Our Removal Service's
Precision Wildlife specializes in the removal of opossums from attics, chimneys, walls and other hard-to-reach locations through special trapping techniques and use of fiber-optic and infrared cameras. Depending on city, county, federal and state law, the opossum will either be relocated or euthanized once it is taken away. No matter the course of action, the opossum will be treated in a humane manner.
If an opossum has already died in your attic or other living space, we have dead-opossum removal services and can also help clear odors caused by decomposing opossums.
There is not an opossum problem that can't be solved with Precision Wildlife's professional opossum-trapping service.
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