A Kinka-What?

UPDATE: on Friday, the owner of the kinkajou was located after a neighbor saw the story.  The owner has been sick with the flu, and did not know the animal had escaped.  The pair have been reunited

GRANDVIEW (KRLD 1080) - Somebody lost their kinkajou in Johnson County.

Sheriff's Lieutenant Tim Jones says the small mammal turned up at a home near Grandview last night.

It's a mammal native to Central and South America.

Jones says the kinkajou appears to be someone's pet. It has an RF tag and they're using that to track down the owner.

The animal's feet were blistered from the cold.

National Geographic says this about kinkajous:

Kinkajous are sometimes called honey bears because they raid bees' nests. They use their long, skinny tongues to slurp honey from a hive, and also to remove insects like termites from their nests. Kinkajous also eat fruit and small mammals, which they snare with their nimble front paws and sharp claws. They roam and eat at night, and return each morning to sleep in previously used tree holes.

The animals grow to two feet long and about seven pounds.