Staff at Golden Acres garden centre spotted the otter walking through the external areas of the centre until it sat in the coffee shop entrance for a few moments before moving on.
Staff member Chris Woods, who filmed the otter on his mobile phone camera and video, said: “We are about a kilometre from the River Stour and there are no other real streams nearby, so it travelled quite a way – maybe it was because we had tuna mayo jacket potatoes on the menu that day!”
Otters, which are viewed as a barometer of river health, did not completely disappeared from Dorset rivers as they did from other UK areas, and after years of decline, their numbers are now significantly increasing.
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