Elwood homeowner discovers ringtail possum curled up on his shower soap rack

Most photos of Australian animals that circulate on social media involve huge or deadly critters climbing out of toilets. This picture from Elwood couldn’t be more different.

The sneaky ringtail possum was found snoozing in the shower.

This is not the shower companion most have in mind.

But Elwood homeowner Marc van Hoof was still pleasantly surprised to find a possum curled up on the shower soap rack at his Wilton Grove house yesterday.

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Mr van Hoof said the ringtail possum lived in a tree out the front of the house, which was currently vacant, and appeared to have snuck in through a bedroom window left open during renovations.

“It’s been vacant for a month or so and I’ve gone in with a plumber to replace the shower base and there it was,” Mr van Hoof said.

“I love possums — they’re just super cute.”

Somehow the ringtail possum squeezed on to the soap rack.

Mr van Hoof said in the 10 years he had lived at the property he’d never had a possum come inside, but this one appeared to be “semi-house trained”.

“It’s come in through a bedroom window but also been downstairs, because there’s droppings on the floor.

“He also peed on the toilet seat — unfortunately the seat was down,” he said.

Mr van Hoof said the possum was asleep when they found it, and they placed a towel over it and took it back to its tree.

“He was fine, ran straight back up his tree.”

Mr van Hoof said he would re-market the pet-friendly property as “pets included”.

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