so i'm laying in my bed reading a very very good book,
and i hear a loud yell coming from the utility closet
where my washer and dryer are kept...
its my younger MALE cousin and he's ranting on about
some THING being in the tubey thing of our dry (sry i dont
speak mechanics) anyway..i jump on the dryer to take a look
and sho' nuff there's a opossum gnarling its teeth at me...
its midnight...MIDNIGHT i dont have time for
this. So i call animal control..they can't come out unless my
maintenance people call for help, so i call the maintenance people
and they can't get out here until 7am. there is no way in Hades
i'm going to stick my hand in there to get it out....


HEEEEELP

Oh my. Your house must me in it's territory. How rude of you!



Good luck!

HamsterHuey said:

i live right next to a medical center
7+ hospitals. damn that little patch of woods!
cuuuurse you!!

Can u try and get it in a pillow slip and let it go outside...mind u those things would stratch u to death

What would happen if you turned the dryer on for just a couple of seconds? Seems like that would encourage it to leave in a hurry.

morningsong said:

um don't do that

i dont know how but i managed him to get inside
my ice chest and slammed the thing shut.

i just got back from releasing his ass...and on
my way there...i'm walked across the street and
i see this furry ass huge thing walking...and it
stands on its hind legs. low and behold...its an
adult opossum... i was scared

emilia1 said:

awwww ...glad u got it out

EvilAlthom said:

i did that and he still managed to avoid
being killed...but all is well he's in the woods
now

EvilAlthom said:

If all else fails. Probably would try a loud noise like a vacuum or something first. The thought of getting bit and rabies, ick.


But hey, she got it out, no one harmed, congrats!
[Edited 6/18/08 23:17pm]

emilia1 said:

and baby ones are cute

I'd've turned the Drier on Full 4 Maximum time! That woulda taught the nasty little MF a lesson!

Amaxx said:

possums in the chillybin!

EvilAlthom said:

I suppose U're right 2 B pissed! It would made a mess of the dryer! And a hell of a stink!

Amaxx said:

True.

emilia1 said:

Oh fuck no don't even touch it! Those things look like vaccum cleaner sized rats to me. Although it's rare, some DO carry rabies (usually from an altercation with another infected animal), and if you mess with them they WILL attack. I used to live in South Florida where they are rampant, and they do this horrible little battle dance where they stand on their hind legs and start gnarling at you before they attack and start gnawing and scratching. I can't believe the maintaince people wouldn't come out to get that out of your house. More unbelieveable is that animal and pest control has to wait for maintanence to give them the go ahead to come out and remove it? What kind of BS is that?
. God forbid the little fucker would be carrying something infectious, and then they would just leave you guys in a lurch like that?

I'm so glad you got the thing out of your house!!!

I still wouldn't havr gone near it though

Amaxx said:

(#*$*(&#$(*&$#

wtf is an opposum ?

BlueZebra said:

It's like a nasty looking ground hog or beaver...




[Edited 6/19/08 0:49am]

emilia1 said:

No effing way would I even attempt to get that thing out of there. I would have left it's ass in the dryer until some other idiot came to take care of it.

I do not like scary, wild creatures.


I would have left it in there and blocked the door! Even though I know it couldn't open a dryer door I still would have blocked it. And I doubt I would have been able to sleep.

well luckily for me it was hiding in the
metalish tubing of the dryer (which was no
longer connected to the dryer nor the wall)
so i felt safe enough to jump on the
washer. then i got the ice chest opened it up
and used the stick side of the broom to lift
the tube thing up till he fell out...then gradually
i worked his lil bad ass into the chest and closed it.
on my way to releasing him back out..i'm walkin down
the sidewalk..i see the silhouette of this big dog
sized furry thing and i see it sit up on its hind legs
i look back and my cousin is just walkin away lol so
i followerd his cue. i'm sure glad it was a small
opossum rather then that big one i saw..

hokie said:

thats the thing he wasnt in the part of the
dryere where we put the clothes. he was just
chillin in the back section of the dryer where
the metalish tubey thing goes. (which was no
longer connected) my cousin usually cleans it
out when they use leaf blowers outside like the
did yesterday punk ass is lucky he didnt get bit

its like an extra giant rat, its disgusting! And SCARY!!!

emilia1 said:

You are sooooo much braver than I am. Those things look scary!

horatio said:

they are very scary. if it was a full grown
one i would have left it be and just blocked the
door with towels...but this one was itty bitty.
still scared the shit outta me tho

The best thing to do when an opossum, squirrel, raccoon etc gets in your place is to open a window, lean a broomstick up to it then leave closing off the room. It will leave on it's own once it realizes that you're gone and not gonna hurt it. A terrified animal is not going to try and leave. But once they feel safe, they crawl up the broomstick to the window and voila - they're gone. No contact was needed to remove it.

Believe me, once they find out that they are that close to humans they want out as much as you want them out.

hokie said:

i work at a vet hospital i do have my rabies
shots...that wouldn't make things easier but i deal
with some pretty bad unsocialized dogs and cats at
work. i've felt much more threatened with feral cats
then i did with this opossum lol

awww, they're so cute