And You Thought You Had A Bad Day...

[Far West]

Woman drives 20 miles with coyote 'embedded' in car's grill
Last week on my way to work in the early morning, a coyote darted in front of my car and I hit it. I heard a crunch and believed I ran over and killed it. Upon stopping at a traffic light by my work, a construction woman notified me that there was in fact a coyote still embedded in my car. When I got out to look, this poor little guy was looking up and blinking at me. I notified Alberta fish and wildlife enforcement right away who came to rescue him. Miraculously, he was freed and had minimal injuries despite having hitched a ride from Airdrie to Calgary at highway speeds! Their biologist checked him over and gave him the good to go. They released him in Kananaskis. Clearly mother nature has other plans for this special little guy!
https://www.aol.com/article/news/20...rs-grill/23208105/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&

 

[Guard Dad]

Wow!!

 

[Far West]

Looks like her transmission or power steering system is leaking. ... Poor pup... glad he does not live where I do. They tend to eat cats, young children, and small dogs.

 

[Guard Dad]

Looks like her transmission or power steering system is leaking. ... Poor pup... glad he does not live where I do. They tend to eat cats, young children, and small dogs.

Most automatic transmissions have a cooling loop in the radiator. My guess is that the critter busted that.

And yes, Coyotes are devils. There's a bunch of them in Paulding now. We've seen one in the back yard.

 

[cptlo]

 

[Boss 302]

When I lived in Paulding, we could hear two packs howling to each other in the woods behind our subdivision. I never saw one roaming the neighborhood though. While I was in Arizona for six months attending a military intelligence school, you would see them all the time. I would visit my sister and her family in the Phoenix area on weekends, and you would see them in subdivisions in the early evening quite often. I'd also see a lot of dead ones along side roadways as they would get hit by cars. I saw a bumper sticker in Arizona that said, "The only good coyote is a dead one."

 

[J-man]

Have a pack right behind our house and we've actually seen one in the neighbor's yard (he had a deer feeder so the coyotes linger nearby). We have a 7ft fence so they don't come near our house, but man you can sure hear them clearly when they go after something (or each other).