Beware the Jubjub bird, shun the frumious Bandersnatch, and above all watch out for the manxome Kinkajou! Kinkajou Repeatedly Attacks Elderly Woman:
An elderly Pontotoc County woman received 20 stitches after being attacked and repeatedly bitten by a kinkajou, a raccoon-like pet that had escaped from a home five miles away.Sadie Hester, 82, said she heard her dogs barking and fighting with something on the front porch Friday night.
‘I went out there Saturday morning about 8 to clean up the porch because they’d torn everything up,’ she said. ‘I thought whatever it was, was gone. I never saw him.’
Hester said as she started sweeping, the kinkajou jumped on her and wrapped his tail around her arm.
‘He kept biting my hands because I was trying to pry his teeth out of my hands,’ she said. ‘I just kept trying to get him off, and he tore up my left arm pretty bad.’
Hester got 16 stitches in her left arm and four in her right hand. She also received several bites that did not require stitches.