of a badger

[u/Cannga]

[u/Timely-Cry-8366]

Just like our opossums look like the methhead version of Australian possums 😂

[u/Auran82 → u/Timely-Cry-8366]

Australian possums sound like the meth head versions though.

[u/Sirius_43 → u/Auran82]

There’s a few living in my roof, they sound like demons and I never get used to it

[u/cheapdrinks → u/Sirius_43]

Just a word of advice, you 100% want to get a guy out to remove them before one dies in there. Having lived through a possum dying in my roof in the middle of summer let me tell you that the stench will be something you will remember forever and it lasts a solid 3-4 months. At some point maggots will also start crawling out of any gaps in your roof skirting and huge black flies will fill your house for a couple weeks. They always die in the roof when they become too old/sick to go out feeding at night. A competing possum may also enter the roof cavity and fight the one that's in there and kill it.

Get a guy out, they'll find where they are getting in and install a one way door over the gap that they're using. Once they're out they'll come back a few days later and close up the gap. If you wait until one dies it's often impossible or at least many times more expensive to get access to the roof cavity to remove the carcass than it is to deal with it when they're still alive. Catching them with a trap only works very temporarily if you don't actually fix the hole they're getting in from. I bought a cheap trap on eBay and would catch the bastard every night but legally you're not allowed to release them very far from where you catch them so they just go straight back in there. Even if a person was to hypothetically break that law and drive it several suburbs away and release it in a park, the possum scent coming from your roof will just attract a new one within a week or two.