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Kansas woman finds guinea pig in her mailbox

A guinea pig was found by a Lyon County resident in her mailbox on Wednesday.
A guinea pig was found by a Lyon County resident in her mailbox on Wednesday. Courtesy photo

A Kansas woman alerted authorities Wednesday after she found a guinea pig in her mailbox, according to the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office.

In a post to its Facebook page, the sheriff’s office said the rural Lyon County resident found the guinea pig Wednesday morning. The woman lives in a rural part of the county just west of Emporia, the post indicated.

Anyone with information about the apparently abandoned pet is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 620-341-3205.

Bryan Horwath: 316-269-6708, @bryan_horwath

This story was originally published April 26, 2017 at 11:44 AM with the headline "Kansas woman finds guinea pig in her mailbox."

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