Woman Shocked to Find a Possum in her Christmas Tree after Hearing the it SNEEZE

A woman was left in shock after she found a possum hiding in her Christmas tree while decorating – after hearing the animal sneeze from inside its branches.

Brett frequently shares her day-to-day life with her over 6,700 followers on her TikTok account.

Most recently, the Texas-based animal lover – who has her hands full with three dogs, a snake, a lizard, and a cat – took to the video-sharing platform to reveal she was met with a ‘furry’ surprise after putting up her faux snow tree.

The content creator shared footage of the rodent lounging in the fake tree as she explained she had ‘no idea’ how the animal got into her home. 

In a series of viral videos, which have so far amassed over 5.1 million views, Brett gave viewers a peek at the possum trying to spread Christmas joy by living in her tree that was adorned with ornaments and tinsel.

She captioned one of the clips:  ‘I don’t understand how this thing is in my house right now.’ 

The possum is seen perching inside the tree as his head peeks out.  ‘I am literally freaking out right now. I have no idea how this possum got in my house and up in my tree,’ Brett said in between sighs. 

She noted that she had attempted to ‘get him out’ but her the animal wouldn’t ‘let’ her.  ‘I just don’t know what to do. I don’t know how it got in here, I don’t leave my doors open. 

‘Somebody help,’ she begged at the end of the video. In a follow-up video, she shared a close-up of the animal as it wrapped its fingers around her tree’s branches. 

‘Hey little buddy, how did you get into my tree and my house without me noticing?  ‘You’re really cute but I don’t know what to do,’ she said. 

The animal lover captioned the video: ‘Up close and personal with the Christmas possum.’  In another clip, Brett revealed she discovered the rodent was hiding in her tree after hearing it sneeze. 

She said that she assumed it was one of her dogs or her cat, however, they weren’t near her. Brett ignored the sneeze and kept working until she heard it again – prompting her to get up to look around her living room for her dogs or cat. 

Instead, the content creator said a ‘really big, long-looking rat tail’ and a ‘giant gray, breathing ball of fur.’

‘I just kind of stopped because I was in shock. I didn’t know what it was,’ she added. 

After she called her boyfriend – whom advised her to put on some rubber gloves and grab the rodent. 

Brett said: ‘I get the gloves and I grab around his body and I start trying to pull him out of the tree. Well, they have hands and he was holding on for dear life to this Christmas tree and no matter how hard I try to pull him he wasn’t coming off. 

‘After giving up a few times and trying again and trying to feed him, I ended up just giving it my all and plucking his fingers from the branch one at a time.

‘It was a struggle and he started to flop around when I actually got him off the branch and then he fell on the floor along with all of the ornaments. 

‘It wasn’t a hard fall, it wasn’t very far down.’ After falling on the floor,  the possum ran underneath her couch. When Brett tried to move the couch to capture it, the animal just ran under a different sofa. 

Brett noted this happened ‘five times.’  Exhausted, Brett decided to take a break and then try one last time. 

She explained: ‘I moved the couch with all my force and just went for it and tackled him like an NFL football player and got him and calmed him down.

‘He smelled so bad.’ Brett noted that despite the shocking process to capture the possum, it was ‘not mean and he was not aggressive.’ 

Brett confirmed that she did call Animal Control but it took them ‘hours’ to get to her home because she lives in a ‘small town.’ 

At the end of the clip, she added: ‘As an animal lover with three dogs, two snakes and a bearded dragon and a cat, I probably would have kept it if it didn’t smell so horrid.’ 

People flooded the comments section and cracked many jokes about the ‘Christmas possum.’ 

One person said: ‘That’s the Christmas possum. Make a wish.’ 

Someone else added: ‘It’s his house and he’s your possum now.’

Another user wrote: ‘I’d literally faint seeing that.’ 

‘Leave him there. That’s his home now. Have some Christmas spirit,’ added another user.