How do I get a possum out of my roof?

To begin with, ensure it is a possum and not a rodent or mouse – sprinkling flour close to the sewer vent and checking the impressions will decide this – possums are the size of a feline. 

Then, set up an elective home for the possum. You will require a settling box – you can either buy one from a retail outlet in New South Wales or construct your own. 

Where conceivable, get inside your rooftop and find the possum's home. The home, which has the aroma of the possum, ought to be put in the new possum house to urge the possum to its new home. 

Urge the possum to examine their new home by placing bits of new organic product in or close to the settling box. 

Find an appropriate tree in your nursery to site the crate, getting it something like 4 meters up. 

Discover how the possum is getting into the rooftop space by noticing it at sunset when it will pass on to search. 

Repulse possums by sprinkling the rooftop depression with quassia chips (from tool shops), or naphthalene or camphor (Note: don't utilize a blend of items) and placing a light into the rooftop hole and leaving it on for three days and evenings. The mix of the light and the smell should drive the possum out of your rooftop and ideally into the possum house you have given. 

After you are sure the possum has moved into its new home, block its entrance into the rooftop by introducing a single direction entryway or filling the opening with chicken wire or wood and managing any overhanging branches. Evening is the best an ideal opportunity to close off the passageways as the possum will have passed on to search for food. 

In the event that the possum returns, there is another passage you need to discover.

Where to get a permit and a snare

Contact:0488 404 885

Email:jenny@a1pestcontrolcanberra.com.au 

Make sure to close off the passageways into your rooftop and to give a possum house on the off chance that you mean to have a go at catching. 

Delivering a possum 

A possum should be delivered at nightfall close to 150 meters from the mark of catch and close to something it can quickly climb, like a tree or tall fence, if not it won't endure. 

Canberra & Queanbeyan regions seldom have any empty domains, so if you somehow managed to deliver the possum in another space, it would need to look and contend with different possums for safe house and food in new region.