A convenience store located at the foot of the Rockies in Fort Collins, Colorado just got a surprising visitor that nobody was expecting!

Lori Jones was working at the store, which is at the Horsetooth Inn and RV Park, when a doe walked right in!

A longtime resident of the area, Lori is used to seeing animals all over the place. However, she’s never had one pay a visit to her place of work! The doe didn’t seem phased by the store at all. Instead, she walked through the aisles as if she was shopping around!

“It was hilarious,”Lori said. “She was looking at the sunglasses and the chips. I was laughing so hard.”

This particular doe is well known in the area as the matriarch of a deer family. She typically provides for her family by grazing, not by shopping at the convenience store!

Once Lori stopped laughing, she managed to lure the deer out of the store and into the woods with a peanut bar. She expected that this was the last time she would see the deer in her store, but she was wrong!

Just thirty minutes later, the doe returned with her entire family!

“I walked out and there she was with her twins and a lone buck that she nursed,” Lori said. “I just used my phone to snap the pics.”

It seems that the doe had so much fun in the store that she wanted to show her family around it too! The twins seemed nervous and unsure of what to make of the store, but the buck seemed ready to walk right in.

“They were just looking in the doorway like, ‘Can we come in too?’ I said, ‘No,’” Lori recalled. “It was so funny.”

Once again, Lori lured the doe out of the store with a peanut bar, telling her to “take your children home” as they ran back to the woods.

“It was just a lovely thing to see,” Lori said. “The population of wildlife here is just astounding. We have mountain lions, bighorn sheep, deer, raccoons — you name it. They have to fend for themselves. That’s nature. But I think they’re all wonderful.”

This was definitely a workday that Lori will never forget!