It looks like Yotes aren't afraid of people after all

Catfish · Post by **Catfish** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:18 pm

I found this in are local papper. The Meatheads plan on releasing it.

Catfish:

Coyote visits Chicago sandwich shop

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CHICAGO (AP) -- For one day, at least, the roadrunner was safe. It seems the coyote was hankering for another kind of fast food. Employees and customers at a downtown Chicago Quiznos sandwich shop were stunned to see a coyote walk through the propped-open front door Tuesday afternoon and lie down in a cooler stocked with fruit juice and soda.

"It wasn't aggressive at all," restaurant manager Bina Patel told the Chicago Tribune. "It was just looking around."

Employees and customers calmly cleared out of the restaurant, though some took the time to finish their sandwiches and snap some cell-phone photos, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Animal control officers took the passive coyote away after about 40 minutes, after a curious crowd had gathered outside.

"This one definitely I will definitely remember forever. A coyote in downtown Chicago," Quiznos employee Rick Torres told WLS-TV.

The city captures 10 to 15 coyotes every year, especially in the spring when they are most active, said Anne Kent, director of Chicago Animal Care and Control. Veterinarians will examine the coyote and, if he is not injured, release him into the wild.

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Emery · Post by **Emery** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:39 pm

That's pretty cool (I guess), when I was growing up, usually about once a year the sheriff would call the bear guys with their hounds to run a bear out of downtown if they couldn't persuade it to go away on its own.

Emery

Huntin54 · Post by **Huntin54** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:02 pm

I just saw that on the news.

Wonder wat that yote was thinking.

TnHoss · Post by **TnHoss** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:07 pm

I wonder why they are going to release it back into the wild, destroy it and have one less yote to worry about.

Pine MT Beagle Runner · Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:14 pm

Probably trying to avoid all the bad press of offending PETA. PETA doesn't seem to care that our beagles are in danger from the yotes. But God forbid that you put down a nondomesticated, known to be dangerous animal.

Just my two cents,
Chris Chandler

Windkist · Post by **Windkist** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:41 pm

In my opinion a wild animal who walks into a place filled with humans is likely sick! They should not release it back into the wild. It could have rabies. best to put it down!!!

Leah

soggybottom · Post by **soggybottom** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:26 am

shoot it, there is to many around as it is...........

Catfish · Post by **Catfish** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:51 pm

TnHoss wrote:I wonder why they are going to release it back into the wild, destroy it and have one less yote to worry about.

Amen to that. Destroy it.

Catfish: