Kinkajou Wakes Woman: Elderly Florida Woman Finds Exotic Animal Sleeping on Her Chest
Kinkajou Wakes Woman: Elderly Florida Woman Finds Exotic Animal Sleeping on Her Chest

Kinkajou Wakes Woman: Elderly Florida Woman Finds Exotic Animal Sleeping on Her Chest “Video”

Florida Woman Wakes to Find Exotic Kinkajou Caressing Her Face.

A woman got quite the scare Tuesday when an exotic animal, a kinkajou, woke her in the middle of the night.

“This 99-year-old woman is sound asleep, she feels something, she wakes up and this kinkajou — this furry, big animal — is curled up asleep on her chest,” Dr. Don Harris of South Dade Animal Hospital said.

Harris said the woman and animal were both startled, and the kinkajou eventually made its way to the attic.

Cathy Moghari was able to help lure the kinkajou out.

“I start thinking, ‘How are we going to get this animal out?’ So I googled kinkajou sounds and found a video,” Moghari said. “And I was holding it up to the ceiling, and we hear a rumbling. And, sure enough, it came out to the opening that we had in the ceiling.”

Kinkajous are nocturnal animals that rarely are seen in the day and are native to Central and South America.

However, special permits allow people in the U.S. to keep the animal as exotic pets, and this one likely slipped out from its owner sometime over the past few weeks.

“This particular animal is kind of a cross between a raccoon and a monkey,” Harris said. “It’s in the raccoon family, so they’re very dangerous.”

Moghari said she picked up the kinkajou, took it home for the night and took it to the veterinarian Tuesday morning. Moghari said she wasn’t scared by the animal.

No, but I have respect for it,” she said.

Agencies/Canadajournal




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