Rodent?

The little woman was all excited, not in a good way.  She kept saying come here, come here.  There is a rodent out here.  My first reaction is 'oh no not again'. So I walk out to check and outside by the corner of the house was an opossum.  Now they do have a rodent kind of appearance, but they really are marsupials.  It is the first one the littles have ever seen.  They were concerned it would attack out cats.  I explained it is just passing through and since our cats are inside, they are fine.  And then it just moseyed on down the road or yards or wherever it went.  I did explain that we don't try to corner them.  They are wild and can bite.