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Goat breaks free, goes on Starbucks run in California

This photo provided by the Rohnert Park, Calif., Department of Public Safety shows a goat that wandered into a Starbucks in the Northern California town Sunday, April 10, 2016. Rohnert Park police Sgt. Rick Bates said employees who were opening the store tried to give the goat a banana, but the animal kept walking into the coffee shop and started chewing on a box. Bates took the goat into custody and brought it to an animal shelter.(Sgt. Rick Bates/Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety via AP)
This photo provided by the Rohnert Park, Calif., Department of Public Safety shows a goat that wandered into a Starbucks in the Northern California town Sunday, April 10, 2016. Rohnert Park police Sgt. Rick Bates said employees who were opening the store tried to give the goat a banana, but the animal kept walking into the coffee shop and started chewing on a box. Bates took the goat into custody and brought it to an animal shelter.(Sgt. Rick Bates/Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety via AP)

ROHNERT PARK, Calif. (AP) – Police say a goat apparently needed a caffeine fix when it wandered into a Starbucks in Northern California.

Rohnert Park police Sgt. Rick Bates says dispatchers received several calls Sunday morning about a goat named Millie wandering around a strip mall on the city’s eastern edge.

Bates says employees who were opening the Starbucks tried to give Millie a banana, but she kept walking into the coffee shop and started chewing on a box.

Bates took the goat into custody and brought it to the animal shelter – but not before snapping photos of her sniffing around the Starbucks and posting them on the police department’s Facebook page.

He says word spread to Millie’s owner, and the animal has made it home.