A Texas woman heard something sneezing, then rustling around. Her dogs and cats weren't around, so she started looking and discovered a rat-like tail hanging out of her Christmas tree.
Then she saw the face. It was a possum in her artificial tree.
No clue how he got there and it wasn't easy to get him out. He was clinging to the branches for all he was worth.
Here's her description of the struggle to get the possum out of the tree and then out from under her couch.
P.S. Who knew they smelled that bad?!
Brings back memories of the squirrel in "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"!
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