I caught a possum in my live trap and now cant catch squirrels?

i have a havahart 1030 live trap for squirrels and rabbits, but i left it outside the other nite and awoke to a possum in the trap in the morning and he pooped a lot and probably peed. well i removed him from the trap and washed off all the poop from the trap and shoveled a layer of dirt the trap was on to make sure theres no more. well ever since then i havent caught a single thing. theres plenty of bait and no squirrels are even going near it. and also if it rained the nite before when do the squirrels usaully come out to eat the following morning. thank you very much.


and please only serious answers i do not harm the animals i simply remove them from the property so they stop digging around my lawn looking for food and destroying things.I caught a possum in my live trap and now cant catch squirrels?
i'd probably try soaking it in bleach and water solution to make sure the possum smell is completely gone.. animals have a way more advanced sense of smell than we do, so a quick hose down isn't going to get rid of the scent.I caught a possum in my live trap and now cant catch squirrels?
Possums are predators and scavengers. They eat baby birds, baby squirrels, garbage and anything dead they can find.





The squirrels are staying away because they don't want to get eaten. They will avoid the trap as long as it smells of Opossum. You need to find some way to remove the Opossum smell on the trap.