"Hi. My name is Buster and I'm a dog ... what are you and what's your name? Oooo, you make funny noises but you sort of look look like my cat, Bandit. I don't know why you have to hiss and spit and growl at me like that, when all I want to do is be friends."

I actually walked right up to Buster, picked him up, and brought him into the house, and the opossum stayed right there ... growling and hissing.