Ok? What is your concern? They are wild animals.

Our concern is that they are nesting there.

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Thank you for contacting Pinellas County Animal Services about opossums in your area. Whether rural, residential or in the wilderness, opossums are a benefit to any area they inhabit. Their diet includes all types of bugs and insects including cockroaches, crickets and beetles. They love snails and also eat mice and rats. The nocturnal opossum is attracted to our neighborhoods by the availability of water, pet food left out at night and overripe, rotting fruit that has fallen from trees. The opossum in turn helps keep our neighborhoods clean and free of unwanted, harmful garden pests and rodents, which may carry diseases. The opossum has earned the title of “Nature’s Little Sanitation Engineer”. Pinellas County Animal Services does not remove wildlife from the community. If you are having problems with nuisance wildlife on your private property you may contact a private trapper for assistance. If you have any further questions please call us at (727) 582-2600. We are striving to improve our services. Please visit www.pinellascounty.org/surveys/animals to tell us how we are doing, Thank You!

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Jane, I'm not sure why they are out in the day, but please, leave them alone. Don't worry about them. They are good and we should protect them

These animals reside around here permanently, contrary to what Pinellas Animal Services describes on its website as their being nomadic and unlikely to stay long, so leave them alone because they provide the sanitation services described above. I live in the reported block and see them frequently, but more so at night. My dog cannot tolerate them and dismembers them at every chance, making me the sanitation engineer hearing animal screams and collecting animal body parts. I have tried to explain Animal Services' advice about our furry engineering friends to the dog, who will not relent. The free-ranging cats of the neighborhood are no help in controlling the possum population, killing only birds.

I take issue with the county regarding the policy that
"Opossums are normally transient animals, staying only two to three days in an area before moving on. Removal is neither necessary nor desirable. If opossums were eliminated from an area, the population of roof rats and other pests would proliferate. Opossums serve an important role by controlling the unwanted, harmful pest population around our neighborhoods."
http://www.pinellascounty.org/animalservices/wildlife-opossums.htm

The opossum situation around here is annoying, even to a tree-hugger like me.

Thank you for taking the time to “Report an Issue” via Doing Things for you! We will investigate your issue and take any necessary action. Thank you for your input! We are striving to improve our services. Please visit www.pinellascounty.org/surveys/animals to tell us how we are doing, Thank You!

Thank you for contacting Pinellas County Animal Services about opossums in your area. Whether rural, residential or in the wilderness, opossums are a benefit to any area they inhabit. Their diet includes all types of bugs and insects including cockroaches, crickets and beetles. They love snails and also eat mice and rats. The nocturnal opossum is attracted to our neighborhoods by the availability of water, pet food left out at night and overripe, rotting fruit that has fallen from trees. The opossum in turn helps keep our neighborhoods clean and free of unwanted, harmful garden pests and rodents, which may carry diseases. The opossum has earned the title of “Nature’s Little Sanitation Engineer”. Pinellas County Animal Services does not remove wildlife from the community. If you are having problems with nuisance wildlife on your private property you may contact a private trapper for assistance. If you have any further questions please call us at (727) 582-2600. We are striving to improve our services. Please visit www.pinellascounty.org/surveys/animals to tell us how we are doing, Thank You!