If you have a Brushtail possum in your roof or attic, the best thing to do is to call professional pest control in Parramatta to come and remove it. Possums are protected wildlife in Australia, so it is illegal to kill them. If you try to remove the possum yourself, you could get injured or worse. 

Brush-tailed possums prefer to live in roof cavities. Because these possums are territorial, getting rid of one won't solve the issue because more possums would take over the space immediately. 

A relocated possum won't survive in its new surroundings. They must be moved nearby and away from your roof; preferably, they should be placed in a tree in your garden. Both relocating possums and killing them are forbidden.

Although ringtail possums may occasionally move in, brushtail possum sightings are more frequent on roofs. Observe these instructions to remove a possum from your roof safely:

Determine the possum's entrance to your roof first. Most likely, this will be near a tree or bush that provides access and leans up against the house, perhaps under the eaves. 

Once you've found the area where the possum is most likely, you need to watch it before dusk to see whether it moves. Once you are positive that the possum is using this area to enter your roof and has gone to bed, you need to seal the hole. 

This can be accomplished with wood or a solid sheet of some sort. Since the possum will be determined to re-enter and may easily tear the wire off with its strong claws, chicken wire is not a suitable barrier.

By placing flour around the maintenance hole and examining the footprints, you can ensure that it is a possum, not a rat or mouse. Possums are cat-sized.

After that, give the possum a new residence. You must make a nesting box, which you can make yourself or purchase in New South Wales's retail stores.

If feasible, locate the possum's nest from within your roof. The nest, which emits possum scent, should be put in the new possum housing to lure the animal to its new residence.

To encourage the possum to investigate its new home, place pieces of fresh fruit in or next to the nesting box.

Locate a suitable tree in your yard, secure the box at least 4 meters up, and use it as the box's location.

You may watch the possum as it leaves at dusk to go scavenging and learn how it enters the roof space.

Possums can be repelled by putting a light within the roof cavity and leaving it on for three days and nights, along with some quassia chips (available at hardware stores). The combination of the light and smell should drive the possum off your roof and hopefully into the possum housing you have given.

Create a one-way door, block the aperture with chicken wire or wood, trim any sticking branches, and block the possum's access to the roof once you are confident it has relocated. Because the possum has gone outside to seek food at night, that is the best time to block the entrances.

Releasing a Possum

For a possum to survive, it must be released at dusk, within 150 meters of where it was captured, and close to anything it can readily climb, such as a tree or a high fence.

The possum would need to explore and compete with other possums for shelter and food in an unknown area if you released it in another location because vacant territories are unusual in wilderness settings.

You can hire pest solutions for better management of this situation. 

Conclusion 

You can hire a professional if you cannot complete these chores alone. The professionals can also conduct pest inspections in Sydney in case you have other animal or pest concerns in your house. 

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