If I didn’t know better I would be asking myself “Why Walmart?” Beavers in Utah have been found at walmart, in Michigan, in Maine, it’s almost as if they prefer  the store which can’t possibly be true, because no one really does.

Cortland is in the lower third of New York and recently had it’s own walmart beaver encounter.  Of course it’s just because – acre per acre – there are more walmarts across the country than any other chain so randomly these encounters happen there. Not that beavers were a fan of the Waltons.

Still. I have to say that’s one tiny beaver in the film below.. Not a disperser. A kit that got lost?

Sheriff’s deputy rescues beaver from Walmart parking lot in Cortland

CORTLAND, N.Y. – Law enforcement officers never know what they may encounter on their shift. That was true recently for Cortland County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Kemp who responded to a report of a beaver in the Walmart parking lot near the store entrance.

Kemp’s rescue of the beaver was announced today on the office’s Facebook page. “…no matter what you face, you come up with a plan and solve the problem with whatever you can find,” the Facebook post stated.

Kemp used a shopping cart tipped on its side to scoop up the beaver and was able to turn the cart upright with beaver safely inside, according to the post.

The deputy transported the beaver and released it to a nearby pond.

Note that the brave New York policeman picked up the beaver with a metal cart. For comparison, here is how one unarmed woman from Colorado does it: