Caitlin Burch and her Ohio family had an encounter with wildlife last summer that was seriously hilarious. Her 7- and 10-year-old daughters had come to her and her husband, Bryan, claiming “there was something in their room.”
“They used the words ‘creature’ and ‘rat,'” she said. “The 7-year-old insisted that there was something. … The 7-year-old would not sleep in her room. They sleep in their room every night, but I told her she could sleep in the guest room that night if it made her feel better.”
Burch and her husband checked the room, didn’t find anything, and told their girls it was probably nothing. Thinking it could be a mouse, they bought some traps and set them up.
Finally, after a few days, their older daughter ran into their room. Burch’s husband went to go check it out, and saw that his daughters were right.
Hi this possum was living in my children's bedroom for 3 days before we believed them. pic.twitter.com/q2XwUjtkbV
— CAITLIN. (@itsjustcaitlin) March 12, 2019
The “creature” was actually an opossum that had been living in their daughters’ room for three days.
“It had crawled into one of the dresses hanging in the closet,” Burch said. “It was peeking out of the neck hole.”
“It’s very much an ‘I told you so’ moment for [the girls],” she said. “We realized after the fact that we should have noticed some things. Some toys knocked over. Dog’s food missing, so we know it had been in the rest of the house too. The dog never made a peep the whole time it was in the house.”
It took Burch’s husband about two hours to remove the opossum and send it back out to the wilderness where it belonged.
“My girls have thought this whole thing was hilarious. I told them my next tattoo is definitely going to be a possum or opossum, I don’t even know which one it actually is,” Caitlin said. “I’m thankful that the girls were willing to ever go to sleep in the house again.”
