Everyone says they're harmless, but all I know is that I don't like being all too close to them. Years ago we had a total house fire and our neighborhood possums seemed to "help out" afterwards. LOL When we took all of the food out of fridge and chest freezer, among other items that we damaged, we tossed them into a big dumpster that had been parked in our driveway. Overnight, Mr. Possum found his way into the dumpster to feast on some of the spoiled foods. Afterwards he went "exploring" only to find the board that had been nailed up to one of our basement windows, move it out of the way and fall into our basement!!! Trauma levels already tremendously high the following morning as we were inventorying things in the house...only to see this possum go strutting past our feed and crawl into one of the plastic trash bags!!
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Police department wouldn't come and help us catch it..they told us to call the fire department.
Fire dept. asked if it was a "threat to anything", that's when we just hung up and figured we'd trap it ourselves somehow.
He had a ride inside a plastic trash can with a lid on it to the park a mile away where he was turned loose.


Good Luck,


Marilyn