The unexpected weight caused her to wake up only to discover there was “an animal curled up sleeping on her chest”, veterinarian Don Harris was quoted by WTSP as saying. “The lady ran to get help to call her daughter, and the kinkajou ran up to the attic”.
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The animal, whose name is Banana, was being cared for at South Dade Animal Hospital, where the medical center operates, but will be reunited with its owner Wednesday morning. “The lady screamed, the kinkajou went into her attic”.
An official with the South Dade Avian and Exotic Animal Medical Center holds a kinkajou after it was found in an elderly woman’s Miami home.
That’s exactly what happened to a sleeping 99-year-old woman in Florida on Tuesday.
But he said overall, they are very peaceful animals who apparently like to cuddle. They ” e pretty docile creatures unless cornered, and then their teeth are their defense mechanisms”.
It is also known as a honey bear, a wild dog or a night monkey. However he warned if someone was bitten by it they could “lose a limb” if not attended to medically.
After eating and resting, the kinkajou is expected to be just fine.
That’s right, the crawly critter is a kinkajou, which CBS reports is native to Central and South American rainforests.
“You don’t hear a lot of about kinkajous and coatimundi and stuff like that, because they don’t make good pets”, Harris said.
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The animal was safely removed from the home and was taken to a nearby veterinarian. “Special permits are required to have them, so the question is where did this animal come from?”
