“I felt a strange smell”: a woman found out that a wild animal lived in her house (4 photos)

Jackie admits that she heard strange sounds for several days, but did not attach much importance to it.





28-year-old Jackie Felix from Union City (California, USA) found a wild animal in her apartment. One day a woman smelled an unpleasant smell in the kitchen, but at first she thought it was coming from the trash can and took it outside. However, the stench never disappeared. After checking every corner of the room, she came across a possum hiding at the back wall of the oven.

It is still unknown how long the “uninvited guest” lived in the house of Jackie, who works for the New Mexico State Department of Health. The woman assumes at least a week, given the amount of excrement found.



After a two-hour hunt, the owner of the house and her neighbor drove the rodent out of the premises, luring it with food and placing it in a glass jar.





Felix admits that for several days she heard strange noises from the kitchen, but did not attach much importance to it, because she lives with six cats and two kittens, so she thought that it was they who were making the noise.

“The terrible smell made me think. I thought that someone had spilled oil, but when I moved the stove away, I saw a lot of excrement scattered on the floor,” says the American.

She did not see how the opossum got into the house, but believes the animal entered through the pet doorway.

“I now make sure that the cat hole is always closed. I have to let them in and out manually, but there is no other choice, to avoid such incidents in the future,” sums up Jackie.