Possum Removal Don’ts

Possums are easier to deal with if they are a recent addition to your roof.  The longer it stays, the harder it is to do get rid of them.  Possum Removal may be as simple as making repairs on all possible entry points in the roof and finally securing the one entry point it uses after it leaves the roof for the night.  And hope that it gives up trying to gain entry as soon as it sees there is a barricade on its roof entryway.  But this does not happen very often.  Most possums do come back and try their best to get into the roof they have claimed as their territory.  In most cases, there is no other recourse but to call for possum removal services.  While you wait however, there are things you might be tempted to do but may make things worse and get you more exasperated than you already are.  Below is the possum Do Not list:

DO NOT:

·         Attempt to get in the roof - with our without protective gears, this is a bad idea.  There might be things there that are far worse than the possum.  Your roof may have been a very attractive living space for the possum because it is teeming with bugs and insects that the possums love to eat for dessert – some of them may be poisonous and you’ll be in a whole lot of trouble.

·         Try and borrow your neighbor’s pet snake – it’s probably easy to just let out the snake in the roof.  But snakes are harder to catch and they are much more slippery than the possum.

·         Seal the roof while the possum is still inside – it gets nastier when it gets trapped.  It will certainly fight for survival.  And if survival means getting out of the roof, it will scratch and claw on the woodwork until makes a hole big enough for it to pass through. 

·         Cover up the roof and make repairs haphazardly – Again, possums are resilient, patient and equipped with strong arms and claws.  How do you think they can climb up huge trees so fast? They can remove pieces of wood and chicken wires in less than a minute so don’t even try repairing without the proper tools and materials.

·         Wait a long time before you decide to call for possum removal services – as mentioned before, the longer they stay, the harder it is to wean them out of the roof.

Proper possum removal involves a few steps -trap, repair, install possum box and release. Possum removal does not need any high tech gadget, just an understanding of what possums are and why they do certain things.