A Dead Opossum Under the House

This job was extremely difficult, and several other companies failed to find the animal before I was called. The house smelled awful, so we knew that there was a dead animal under house crawl space. First, I pried open a spot and squirmed through a tiny access hole that most people couldn't even fit through. Second, I spent over an hour crawling in the dirt, dust, spiders, and stench, through a 1600 square foot labyrinth of ductwork, when most guys would have given up. The animal wasn't to be found, and I realized that it must have crawled up inside the insulation lining below the floor and above the crawl space. So I did the search all over again, this time looking up at the lining for ... fly eggs. Sure enough, I found them, cut a hole in that spot, and out dropped a decaying adult opossum, which I removed, along with the filthy insulation.