About a week ago I started smelling something when I was in our kitchen nook. I could not for the life of me figure out what is was or where it was coming from. And it just got worse and worse. It finally occurred to me that I think something may have died under our house. We have a pier and beam foundation and it’s gotten very cold in Dallas. I thought maybe something got stuck or who knows? Enter the exterminator. Bless this guys heart as he comes and crawls under our house when it’s 30 degrees outside. Brett and I were sitting in the living room while he was under there and you could hear the shuffling and movement. All of a sudden we hear this shout and a muffled, “it’s a live one!” He finally comes back up and confirms that he did indeed find a live possum underneath our house but that wasn’t what the smell was. He thinks perhaps it had babies and one of them didn’t make it. The problem is that the smell is coming from a little section that he can’t get to. So what are our options? 1) live with it until it decomposes completely (which because of the cold could be up to 6 weeks) or 2) spend like $6000 to tear up our floors and go after it that way. Guess which option we chose?
I’ve got about 4 different air purifiers going round the clock, candles, air deodorizers and even put dryer sheets in the vents. And it still smells!!! It’s going to be a long 6 weeks.
They did lay a trap for the live possum and as we came home New Year’s Eve look what was there!
I actually feel kinda bad for the poor thing. I was promised that he wouldn’t be killed but relocated to the lake. So I hope he enjoys his new lake front home more than the crawl space in my house!
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