You laugh, but about fifty years ago somebody's pet Coati Mundi escaped and was found wandering around Long Island (east of NYC, for those of you who don't know the area)... which combined with another enthusiasm of the time to produce newspaper speculation that it had escaped from a flying saucer!
Whatever happened to "Eat mo' possum," anyway?
It's printed on the front license plate on my car:
I get some double takes. And apparently my Lab can read.