A mysterious beast lurking in a tree in Kraków has been identified as a croissant by a local animal charity, which was called out by a worried resident.
The Kraków Society for the Protection of Animals (KTOZ), which run’s the city’s main animal shelter, reports that a “desperate” woman called to say that a “creature” had been hiding in a tree for two days.
“People are not opening their windows because they are afraid it will come into their home,” she said. “Everyone is scared of it.” Asked to describe the animal, she said that it could be an iguana.
After dispelling initial suspicions that it may be a late April Fool’s joke, KTOZ sent out a team to check on the animal. The organisation assumed that, if it was a tropical reptile, it could have died and therefore remained motionless in the tree.
At the scene, the team spotted the “creature”, its “brown skin glistening in the sun”. When “we looked more closely, the poor thing had no legs or head”.
“We knew already that we could not help the creature,” wrote KTOZ on Facebook. “The mysterious iguana turned out to be…a croissant.”
The charity assured that the story was completely genuine, and added that it still encouraged anyone with concerns about the wellbeing of an animal to contact them. “It is better to check and be pleasantly disappointed – sometimes (unfortunately very rarely) to laugh – than not to react.”
Main image credit: KTOZ Krakowskie Towarzystwo Opieki nad Zwierzętami/Facebook
Daniel Tilles is editor-in-chief of Notes from Poland. He has written on Polish affairs for a wide range of publications, including Foreign Policy, POLITICO Europe, EUobserver and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.
