Zena Foord, the mother of TikToker Kyle Thomas, contacted County Antrim pet shop owner Michael Dickinson. Dickinson then arranged for James Hammond to transport it over from Cambridgeshire.
A capybara is at the centre of a Brexit border row after three people were convicted of charges related to smuggling the South American rodent from England to Northern Ireland.
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