Posted on 11/17/2005 8:03:05 AM PST by Altair333
When 82-year-old Sadie Hester of the Macedonia community went to sweep her front porch Saturday morning, she never dreamed she would soon be fighting off the strangest animal Pontotoc has ever boasted. Hester said her dogs were barking and fighting the night before on her porch and she went out to clean up the mess on Saturday morning when the strange animal jumped on her and wrapped its tail around her arm. “He kept biting my hands...he tore up my left arm pretty bad,” Hester told reporters. A Kinkajou is a nocturnal, arboreal mammal found from Mexico to Brazil and related to the raccoon. It has a long, slender body with soft, short, woolly hair of any of various shades of brown or yellow. Its tail is prehensile and is used to grasp branches when the animal climbs. Kinkajous also have a long extrudable tongue, possibly used to reach nectar and honey. The kinkajou spends most of its time in trees. It eats insects, fruits, and honey and is sometimes called honey-bear, a name also applied to a true bear of Southeast Asia. It is an endangered species. Hester had to get 16 stitches in her left hand and four stitches in her right hand as a result of her encounter with this jungle native. Her hands were bandaged up until they could heal. According to Pontotoc County Sheriff Leo Mask the pet escaped from a house about five miles from Hester’s Macedonia Road home in the Algoma Community. The animal is now at the veterinarian’s office to be observed for rabies according to Mask.
Appeared originally in the Pontotoc Progress, 11/15/2005, section A , page 1
The woman has worse problems than 16 stitches. She needs better watch dogs.
I can honestly say that a Kinkajou has never bitten my sister.
Looks like a cute critter - apparently another looks can be deceiving case!
Sounds like a damn Pokemon critter. That or what you would call a perverted Israeli....
My cat could take that little weasel.
We had a stand-off the other day because he was trying to come in the house with half a squirrel in his mouth. I'm talking a ferret sized squirrel.
Stupid cat. He's not supposed to be in the house anyway, the little furry terrorist.
Its the jouuuuuuuuuuuuuuus
I always thought a kinkajou was a Hebrew with a leather fetish.
Here in Texas, the head is cut off the suspect animal.
I don't think so - she was attacked by a Chupacabra or a deranged Chihuahua who thought she was a Chalupa, and the local authorities are looking to scapegoat the jous.
Endangers species, I suspect that limits their options.
Kinkajou in Mississippi....
Sounds like a very odd country song.
Thanks Man; I needed a good pun today!
Now EVERY POLITICIAN IN THE U.S> will be pushing for Kinkajou control laws.
Give them ONE tragedy and they make a federal case of it.
Too bad she just didn't have a good handgun.
We have 2 very nice Border Terriers who would just love to meet it. They're about the size of your cat, and they love people and are very gentle with children, nice little lap dogs. BUT, they're also instintive critter hunters, with outrageously large teeth, a wiry coat, and an extremely high pain threshhold. The were bred to take on foxes and badgers, as our neighbor's mean cat learned the hard way.
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