Possum Control

Opossums are opportunistic and omnivorous scavengers. We can trap and remove them from under peoples sheds or homes. However, opossums frequently enter attics, which is a bigger problem.

Opossums frequently take up residence in the attic of a home. Possums are great climbers. They have opposable thumbs and prehensile tails, and can easily climb up to roofs of homes. There, they break in, often through an open eave gap area. An attic is a warm, dry, safe place for an opossum to live. The most common time of year that to catch opossums in attics is during the spring, usually May or June, when a mother opossum has young. Many opossums are nomadic, but females with young seem to establish a home range and a den site.

Most of the times with deal with opossums in homes, whether in an attic or under a raised house, the homeowner starts to find fleas in the home. The fleas can not only infest pets and bite humans, but spread various disease. Furthermore, when possums live in an attic, they leave a lot of waste up there. Opossums are not clean animals, and their droppings everywhere. This contamination is not sanitary, and can cause health risks inside a home.