Matt was
in the shop and, during a very busy hour, a lady walked into the shop and asked
if she could leave her shopping trolley near the counter. No problem.
She then
asks if it’s OK to look round with her pet. Matt looks up, notices a lead and
assumes it’s a dog. No problem.
‘Tis only
as said customer starts to go up the stairs and rises above the crowd that Matt
notices that on the end of the lead is…a raccoon!
Matt
thinks that perhaps given some of the taxidermy upstairs (pine martin, fox etc.)
this may not be a good idea.
Very
quickly the customer comes back down stairs clutching racoon to breast.
Racoon
looks 'agitated'
"Oh
dear" says woman "I think he didn't like the stuffed things"
She
gathers shopping trolley and exits, briefly freaking out a customer who turned
to enter the shop at the exact same time the racoon exited.
Ho
hum..another day in homestuffwithhistory.
Matt
attempted to take a picture but sadly only managed to get the raccoon’s rear
end (and tail). Unfortunately this looked like Davy Crockets hat and was not
convincing! So here’s a pic of an angry stoat, instead!
