Shoppers in upstate New York earlier this month turned up a rare find while shopping in a local antique store.

Tug next to a cookie jar made in the shape of a chicken was a live owl, resting peacefully on a shelf.

The State Department of Environmental Conservation said that the incident happened on February 21st in the hamlet of East Durham.

It's about 127 miles north of Manhattan.

Agency said customers at the marketplace had spotted something extremely lifelike on one of

the shelves and alerted to store staff.

Environmental Conservation Police officers arrived to find a brown and white owl perched

on the shelf with its eyes firmly shut.

The departments of the officers gently cradled the sleeping owl to remove it from the store,

they walked it outside, and then released it into a wooded area where it flew into a nearby

tree. The bird in eastern screech owl is nocturnal and typically nests in tree cavities. It is not immediately clear how it got inside the store. An email was sent to the store's owner on Friday but was not responded to. The picture is fantastic because they showed the jar. It's kind of a crowded shell, so there's a jar. The sleeping owl, but the owl is almost the same size as the jar then a couple of the

like bird like knickknacky things so you wouldn't know it first until they realize like oh god

that's a real owl try to blend in yeah what uh what animal were you surprised was part of your day

206803 rock hello lisa welcome to the men's room

oh la all right so um Lisa, welcome to the men's room. Ola, guys. Ola.

All right.

So about 20 years ago, I was living in Hawaii, and I had just got back from a run on the beach at sunset,

decided to go and use the restroom with the light off since we had a big window in there

and just when I went to sit down I heard something kind of scratching um I stood up and there

was a rat in the toilet trying to get at me oh one. One of the Hawaiian toilet rats.

How big was the rat?

Ben is a big rat.

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