Coyote in a Chicago Quiznos

[crow_noir]

Coyote caught at downtown Quiznos
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?sec...cal&id=5179979
This one has a slideshow! (And it's quick loading. I'm on dial-up and the pictures don't take long at all.)

Coyote caught in downtown Quizno's
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/3...yote03.article

Coyote visits Loop restaurant but doesn't eat
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...tory?track=rss
Has a picture pre-transport.

[kimlovescats]

He just made a wrong turn, he was meaning to go a couple of stores down to the Dunkin Donuts!

Poor little fella ... he is gorgeous! I'm glad he was young or else he might not have been so timid!

[BCollie_Kelly]

A wrong turn indeed! Poor guy must have really been scared!

[lizbud]

I saw the video of him on TV. Poor guy did look pitiful. They had an
article in the tribune with asking readers to respond with what the coyote
was thinking.


What was that coyote thinking?
Posted by Phil Vettel at 10:15 a.m. CDT

Top Five Things the Loop Coyote Was Thinking:

(That would be the coyote who wandered into a Quizno's shop in the Loop on Tuesday)

"Quizno's? Ah, crap, I thought this was a Subway!"

"Can someone please direct me to Howl at the Moon?"

"Why do I fall for the 'we'll meet you in the Loop' gag every time?"

"If I hear one more 'Coyote Ugly' joke I'm going to bite somebody."

"This town could really use a Wolfie's."

Bloggers: Add your own coyote line here

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Comments
So what does a guy have to do to get service here, howl?

Posted by: CarlG | Apr 4, 2007 10:46:19 AM


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How can they POSSIBLY be out of Diet Coke twice in one week...

Posted by: chris | Apr 4, 2007 11:10:22 AM


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[cassiesmom]

The coyote got relocated to the suburbs... I just want to know where he started out and how he ended up in downtown Chicago!?

Coyote that walked into sandwich shop moved to suburbs

By Michelle S. Keller
Tribune staff reporter

April 4, 2007, 12:50 PM CDT

Maybe he'll like the northwest suburbs better.

The coyote that walked into a downtown Chicago submarine shop Tuesday afternoon was to be taken today to the Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation refuge in Barrington, where he may be released later in the day.

Officials were fairly confident he won't return downtown, but no one can be really sure.

They named the animal "Adrian" after the employee of the city's Animal Care and Control department who watched him overnight. The coyote was sequestered from the facility's dog and cat population.

"We're not inoculating him, and we don't want any disease," department director Anne Kent at a news conference and send-off of the animal at the Animal Care and Control facility on the 2700 block of South Western Avenue.

Adrian was the third coyote captured in Chicago in recent weeks.

He spent the night quietly in the back of his cage, dining on cat food.

Adrian had startled customers of the Quiznos restaurant at 37 E. Adams St. by walking in, past an open door, and plopping himself down in an open soda pop cooler.

No humans were injured during the incident, which drew spectators with camera phones as well as TV station camera crews before Animal Control officers arrived to take the animal away.

This morning, employees of the Quiznos visited the coyote, bringing him a prime rib sandwich on garlic bread. But Animal Care and Control veterinarians rejected the offering.

"I understand," Bina Patel, manager of the sandwich shop, said today. "There are no prime ribs out in the wild."

Adrian weighs about 30 pounds and is believed to be about a year old. Kent said he may recently have become separated from his mother – hence, his urge to roam.

About 10 to 15 coyotes are captured every year in the city, she said.

"It was nice having him as a guest," Patel said. "He just decided to walk in. He hung out in the refrigerator. We had two regular customers who just kept on eating."

The Quiznos was shut down after the incident and sanitized per Health Department instructions. It reopened as normal this morning.

The store donated $1,000 to Animal Care and Control for taking good care of Adrian.

[cassiesmom]

Pretty funny one-liner about this from the Chicago Tribune Web site: "A coyote showing up at Quizno's is about as rare as a World Series at Wrigley Field."

[mugsy]

As they dragged him out of the store...that made me mad, but, I'm glad the little guy is going to be safe. I wonder why they didn't give him a rabies shot...I assume it has something to do with a different vaccine because of the different species (or at least sub species).

[lizbud]

As they dragged him out of the store...that made me mad, but, I'm glad the little guy is going to be safe.

I noticed that too Molly. He could have been more gentle with him.
I am glad he will be released & not put down.