cassiesmom
12-17-2010, 02:08 PM
I heard this story on the morning news. The fire department got a call from someone who thought it might be a dog. The reporter said the coyote was struggling to paddle but was cold and wet. He was in the back of an Animal Care and Control van, in a carrier that was wrapped in blankets, and looked a little befuddled by the TV cameras watching him! (I would be too) He was taken to Animal Care and Control and they will contact wildlife rescue to pick him up. If he's healthy he'll probably go to the Trailside Museum.
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(source: Chicago Tribune)
A Fire Department boat rescued a coyote spotted floating on a patch of ice hundreds of yards out on Lake Michigan this morning.
The coyote was seen around 9:30 a.m. off Fullerton Avenue, curled up on a piece of ice barely bigger than itself.
As a helicopter hovered overhead, the Victor L. Schlaeger fire boat slowly approached the coyote. Several times two crew members bent over to snare the coyote, but it kept drifting away.
Finally, the stern of the boat slid toward the coyote and a crew member snatched him with a long-handled snare and pulled him aboard.
The boat then sped to Belmont Harbor, about an hour after the coyote was spotted. There was no immediate word on his condition.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/_2coyote612.jpg
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(source: Chicago Tribune)
A Fire Department boat rescued a coyote spotted floating on a patch of ice hundreds of yards out on Lake Michigan this morning.
The coyote was seen around 9:30 a.m. off Fullerton Avenue, curled up on a piece of ice barely bigger than itself.
As a helicopter hovered overhead, the Victor L. Schlaeger fire boat slowly approached the coyote. Several times two crew members bent over to snare the coyote, but it kept drifting away.
Finally, the stern of the boat slid toward the coyote and a crew member snatched him with a long-handled snare and pulled him aboard.
The boat then sped to Belmont Harbor, about an hour after the coyote was spotted. There was no immediate word on his condition.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/_2coyote612.jpg