Attic Contamination From Opossum Presence

Opossums frequently inhabit attics. Opossums have opposable thumbs, and are great climbers. Like most animals, they are just looking for a nice, safe shelter in which to live. And like most animals, they eat food and excrete waste. Opossums will use your attic like a regular toilet. I've been in some attics filled with over 1000 smelly opossum terds. Possums go to the bathroom (your attic) everywhere! In some cases, the contamination can be severe.

Here's a photo from one attic that had oppossums living inside. Look at all of the droppings. The house smelled pretty bad, and it was unsanitary.

Here's an even worse attic, from an even worse-smelling house. How could the residents let it go on this long without having the problem taken care of? If they'd had the opossum trapped and removed right away, it wouldn't have had time to convert the clean insulation to sewer quality.

I recommend attic decontamination services in a case such as this, if not complete insulation removal and replacement. Complete attic restoration will eliminate the unsanitary and potentially dangerous state of the attic, full of odor, disease, and parasites - plus the smell that could attract new wildlife.

For more opossum trapping information, go back to the Orlando possum control page.

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