Man says apartment being invaded by opossums

COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Jeremy Wolfe says he was been forced into the role of part time opossum hunter.
 
"This is one that we caught; he was alive," Wolfe said.
 
For months he says he's been dealing with the critters creeping into his place at The Legacy at Acworth apartments.
 
"I have seen about 15 of them throughout the apartment running out and those are the ones that escaped who knows how many are actually in the walls at night -- I hear them scratching," Wolfe said.
 
He says the apartment staff seemed hesitant to help the situation.
 
Wolfe and his roommate trapped a few young opossums.
 
"We saw a little bitty guy sitting right here on the corner," Wolfe said.
 
His dog got to a couple of others, but the animals kept popping up.
 
One night Wolfe spotted one and followed it back to a hole in the wall.
 
A hole that the apartment staff had patched up temporarily.
 
"He put a duct tape patch over the wall just with a roll of duct tape, and we weren't getting anywhere," Wolfe said.
 
But then they called the health department and Channel 2 Action News.
 
"I think between that and WSB-TV calling them they got a little nervous," Wolfe said.
 
Channel 2's Carl Willis spoke with the regional manager.
 
He has put in a more permanent patch Monday, and tells Willis the staff working to make this right.
 
The manager says now he's willing to break the lease, but Wolfe doesn't think that goes far enough after dealing with wildlife in his kitchen.
 
"I definitely don't think that's enough," Wolfe said. "Completely unsanitary. They have to go to the bathroom somewhere, unfortunately, I've seen it in the kitchen. I've seen it beside the water heater."

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