So Its dark and I go out to my what I think is a Fort Knox house and run complete with 3 strands of hot wire 3 inches 6 inches and 12inches off the ground and an 8 foot by 8 foot mini barn 16 inches off the ground with opening to the run only except for 2x4 welded wire openings on 2 sides and and 2x8 to the ground! Leading up to what I found. I walk in thru the locked door and turn on the light only to find my hens and rooster on the roost and an small opossum on the floor of the coop looking up at me (He was small about the size of a large rat at first glance is what I thought he was! So the moral of my story is i guess no matter how safe you think your house is you need to look for other avenues of possible entry! We will now run hot wire around the outside of the chicken house too to make sure that he did not climp thru the welded wire. I guess mr opussum did not think he was hurting anything but in the interest of protecting my flock I dispatched the little varmit in order with a shovel and a hoe and removed the carcass! I am an animal lover but put the safety of my flock first

