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With a flourish, the maître d’ held back an armful of foliage so that Penelope could enter the leafy, secluded room.

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"Everything has changed," said 76-year-old local Yusuf Mohammed, adding that the tree's dense foliage attracted wild animals that attack their livestock.

The rest of the home is already decked out for Thanksgiving with ceramic pumpkins and strings of orange and gold decorative foliage.

But if they hit turf grass instead of leaves or other foliage at the bottom, their chances of survival are slim.