A home-invading possum that sparked a police callout slunk into a Dunedin woman's room and sat on her curtain rail, "staring at me like I was Satan".
Calton Hill resident Alex Kaspin said the sharp clawed pest climbed in her bedroom window and paid an uninvited visit in the middle of the night.
Kaspin said she credited her dog Pearl with looking after her during the incident.
She was asleep about 2am last Friday when Pearl began "barking, nudging and growling at me to wake up".
Kaspin said she woke up and looked at her dog, wondering "what are you doing, it is two o'clock in the morning?''.