The festival of joy and love is Christmas. This is the season when everything seems more abundant.

For one young woman, though, the festivities also included a possum that was hiding—of all places in her home—under her Christmas tree.

Brett (@brettbratt359) posted the video to TikTok, but she had no idea it would become popular.

She didn’t even leave her doors open, as seen in the video, and she can be seen wondering how the possum got up her tree and into her house.

She shares close-up photos of the possum in another video, calling it adorable, all the while unsure of what to do.

After the first video went viral, she uploaded a second one detailing the specifics of what transpired and how she was able to convince the possum to go.

The narrative proceeds as follows: She was working on her couch when she heard someone sneeze after she got home from work.

Ignoring it, she thought it must be one of her dogs. But it happened again, with more volume. However, her pets were nowhere to be seen.

It was then that she looked up near the window and saw a large tail. Following the path left by the tail, she came across a ‘giant gray breathing ball of fur.’

She phoned her partner in shock and terror, and he told her where the latex gloves were in case the possum bit her or became irrational.

She continued, ‘I get the gloves and I grab around his body and I start trying to pull him out of the tree.’

This tiny guy was clinging to the Christmas tree for dear life because possums have hands. Brett tried to entice him with food, but he refused to budge no matter how hard he was dragged.

At last she made up her mind to take his fingers off one by one till he released his hold on the tree, but not before he pulled the tree and all of its decorations down with him.

Then he bolted for cover under the couch. Brett moved the couch every time, and the possum always went under the other.

Brett made the decision to give it one last try after about five rounds, just as she was about to give up.

To her astonishment, she managed to grab hold of the possum and soothe him after moving the couch and jumping on it.

She added that even though she had called animal control, they hadn’t arrived for hours. With several dogs, a cat, a few snakes,

and even a bearded dragon as pets, Brett was an avid animal lover herself. She mentioned that if the possum hadn’t been stinking so awful,

she would have simply kept him. Fun reactions were abundant in the comments area. @tress replied,

‘Girl, I can’t even kill a spider let alone take a possum out of a tree.’ ‘I literally have left my house because a bee flew in one time,’

commented @elizasray, another user. ‘You belong on Survivor,’ is a sentiment that many of us can relate to!