After 10 years of searching....Charlie Crowfoot and the Coatimundi has been posted to YouTube!

Way back in January of 2012, almost ten years to the day (the orignial post was put up on January 25, 2012), I wrote a post about the film, Charlie Crowfoot and the Coatimunudi.
At that time Disney had been putting metal-cased DVD sets out that featured much of the company's old television shows and specials.
As they were being released, Disney had publicly posted the contents of each of the upcoming releases in the series.
And on one of those listings was where I saw something I didn't know existed...
A film by Disney that featured coatimundi...
Charlie Crowfoot and the Coatimundi.

I've spoken/emailed folks over the years who've had relatives that worked on the film and one whose father even handled the coatimundis!
Communication with a couple of folks gradually diminished and the only person I'd interacted with whose father had a copy of the film, eventually ceased and I was back at square one...
Until just a few days ago when I decided it'd been a couple years and that I should give the search another try.
I search the title on YouTube knowing I'd probably be let down...
And I wasn't.
In fact when the search results came back? My I covered my open-mouthed reaction with my hand and my eyes went wide...
There it was posted online for everyone to watch the antics of a coati in a Disney film (Encanto also features coatimundis with some pretty accurate gremlin-like behavior)...
I promise this won't be one of those recipe posts where I discuss mt g-ma's cabin by the lake for twelve paragraphs...

Here it is...after 10 years of on-and-off looking...
Disney's Charlie Crowfoot and the Coatimundi
Enjoy!

(I'll be writing a longer post about this film and the search for it later in a few weeks)

Old Photo of David Attenborough with a Coati!

I'm always looking for old photos featuring coati in them.
Recently a VR experience featuring the man was on display in London.
An article talking about Attenborough shared several photos...
One of which made me and, if you're as much of a fan of the coati as I am, will probably make you smile as well.
A photo of the actor with his son...
And a baby coatimundi.

See the full story here: Yahoo! Sports

Meet Fiddlesitx and his friends the Coati Gang - Kids' Film Features Coati as Main Character

I'm not sure how I missed this but...

An oddball kids movie that's like a mix between The Little Rascals and the old-school Pippi Longstocking features a coati as one of the lead characters!

Fiddlestix isn't just the name of the film...it's the name of the adorable little coatimundi featured in the movie. Fiddlestix is sort of the mascot of a group of misfit little kids who call themselves the Coati Gang.

How a coatimundi becomes the mascot amongst a group of German kids is something I started to ask myself but then I saw a trashcan launched through the air, an old man on a bunch of rockets lifting off and a car cut in half...that's when I quit asking questions.

But hey...it's a movie featuring a coati...and that's why we're all here, right?

Enjoy the trailer for Fiddlestix.

Animal Services in Memphis Discovers Coati in Home - Issues Owner a Warrant - Because Let's Do THAT first

A coati named Archie caused some buzz in Memphis recently when he was spotted in the window of his owner's home after a call went in to local Animal Services about his dogs. Animal Services (who in the video are seen taking photos of Archie through the window...and an officer laughingly flinches when Archie lunges at his hand through the window) states they've never seen whatever Archie is so they issue a warrant to the owner of the coati.

According to a friend of the owner of the coati, Animal Services said:

“They said, ‘if you can’t find him, we’ve already contacted the Memphis Zoo and if he can’t get here before the warrant gets here then they’ll kick in the door and take it’

That's always better than just waiting for the owner to respond...right?

The story continues to spiral into awkwardness when the owner shows up telling reporters that he bought the animal off of Craigslist for $375 because his girlfriend wanted something more interesting than a cat (because she's obviously more concerned with getting attention than just loving a cat from the shelter and wanted to help promote the sale of exotics through Craigslist...she sounds like a keeper) and that his name is Archelo Fettucini.

I can't fault the guy...he had vaccination paperwork (no permit is needed to keep a coati in Memphis...ugh) and calmly explained the situation.

Just another weird situation that circles around an animal that seems to find its way into everything...

Including the awkward home that Archie resides in down in Memphis...

Who's hedging bets that the relationship will eventually hit the skids and another exotic will probably end up in a bad situation?

Snookum Bears on a Rampage!

Originally titled "They Want That-A-Way" and distributed by Universal International, this 1948 Castle film (they're the people that did all the old-school news and informational short film 'reels' from way back before television), was described as 'a trio of bears romping around the great outdoors'. In 1951, the errors of it being a trio and of it containing coatis instead of bears was mentioned in the 'oops-we-goofed' section of their catalog. "The coati is so cute we re-christened him 'Snookum Bear'. The film never really got any traction when it was released theatrically in 1949. So here now is a look at an amazing little short film about four coatis who take up residence on cowboy's ranch and cause a tiny bit of a disturbance in the process. Found via the blog, The Coati Kids