Animal trap setup - how to find out what is in the attic!

Day ONE.

Opossums in the attic, however the homeowner thought it was a squirrel or rat issue - so did his pest control guy!

Convinced he had squirrels, he called us in. We went to work - but we knew it was an opossum, the trouble was we didn't know how big it was! Was this the remnants of an abandoned litter? Were there adults present?

Well, our setup like this quickly helped us to determine that there were adults present!

So after a careful examination of the property we set it up like this, notice the powder around the traps? This help us determine what is walking around in there, since we can see footprints.

The first thing we did was get a good look in the attic, we saw poop (feces) that was way too big for a rodent.  We saw poop (yes we know, "feces") that was also green, this indicated that something was indeed eating the poison that the pest control guy put out, but it was ineffective and simply not the right control technique for this situation.

Day TWO

Customer sent us some photos, and we knew at that point that the powder was disturbed and the footprints were from a fairly large creature in the attic. It was NOT baby opossums, it was an adult and fully grown animal. The traps were tripped but nothing was in it, of course not he was too large.

We set out a larger trap, a larger trap with heavy duty springs. I had a feeling we were dealing with a larger animal and although all I had with me at the time was this trap I set it up and promised to be back the next day.

Day Three

Opossum trapped!

Yes, we caught the opossum and YES it was an adult. I brought an even larger trap with me and set that out today. I will update this when we get new information...

So until then - to be continued...