Maybe start by talking about the waiting dog.

Seconded.

I’m not sure that ‘student’ was a student.

I’m wondering whether it was (or is) a possum. A possum with a butter knife stabbed into every mouth-freckle.

Oh, helpful little guys, cleaning up the world.

Interesting. Are they omnivores or carnivores?

Some of our possums are vegetarian, like the little ringtails, whereas others eat insects as well as fruit and flowers, like brushtails do.

I wonder if American opossums have a diet more like a quill or a Tassie devil?

Time for a Google!

Edit:

From Wikipedia:

So, the opossums of the Americas are of the suborder ‘Didelphimorphia’, whereas the Australasian possums are if the suborder ‘Phalangerifirmes.’

(Didelphimorphia means ‘two wombs’)

Here in Australia, they’re ‘possums’, not ‘opossums’, so I say you’re correct!

At least a king sized couch to surf upon.

I wonder how much of his brain was being affected by that many parasites?

Well, now I know why you seemed so unmoved after Alex and Johnny were killed.