Thanks for the solid info.
We have possums in our back yard at night, usually on the fence. It gives the dog something to bark at. They don’t bother me, so I don’t bother them. Curious creature - vile looking!
I read they don’t live long - 4-5 years max. The article mentioned the possum was large. Perhaps it was old & dying.
We had a litter of baby possums born under the deck between our house and garage this spring.
I heard noises in the garage for a few days but attributed it to mice or the wind until I almost stepped on a baby possum one night when it came out from between a couple boxes under the workbench.
Over the next five days I removed 10 of them from the garage (some may have been repeats, as there was a small hole in the garage wall they were using to enter and exit) by either live-trapping, shooing them out the door, or just picking them up by the tail and carrying them outside.
The problem went away after I patched up the hole in the wall, and I haven’t seen one in a couple weeks now.