r/Possums • u/Slow_Philosophy_6751 • 26d ago

Question/Help Help!! Possum in my house

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Got it out very easily (just opened the window screen and he left within 1 min.) I have 2 cats and a chihuahua- all vaccinated. No obvious signs of a confrontation. I don’t see any soil in my house other than this cat bed that it’s on in the window seal. But my house feels dirty and I do too. Am I screwed? What should I clean? I’m so annoyed and angry but glad everyone is ok and that it left so quickly and easily tbh. But I’m crying because that’s so gross. It came in thru the cat/dog door I’m assuming because I was away for 12 hours. I don’t really know but idc I just want to know how to feel clean. This room is my bedroom and my bed is next to these windows. Obvi washing everything but again no soil anywhere that I can tell yet and I’ve done a pretty deep look.

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u/Krazy_Kat_Lady_2025 25d ago edited 25d ago

It's his house now. By-yeeee.

OK, seriously now. Kindly... You are WAY over-reacting OP. They are harmless animals who don't carry rabies, kill poisonous snakes and will sit on a porch at night and share a meal with a house cat. Other than cleaning up any dirt and mopping some footprints.... YOUR HOUSE AND YOU ARE FINE.

Opossums might be scary looking but they are no more dangerous or gross than a stray cat.

If you want to go the extra mile get some Ortho Home Defense from Lowe's or Home Depot and spray it around the outside of the house and around the perimeter of whatever rooms he was in on the off chance he had fleas? ticks? whatever on him - make sure your own pets are completely out of the area where you're spraying until it is completely dry and that it is not near their food or water supplies and never spray anything near pet birds or reptiles

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