A Chicago Coyote found itself adrift on an ice slab(yesterday) Friday...He was hunting for fish near the shoreline on the Lake ice.. the ice broke away from the mainland with the coyote set adrift and floating out into the interior of Lake Michigan--Goes to show that Coyotes, wolves and other "traveling predators" can end up pioneering previously unoccupied locales across lakes and rivers when freak natural events are set in motion(click on either of the blue colored links as you scroll down page to see the video of the coyote being rescued)

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CLICK ON ABOVE LINK TO SEE THE COYOTEBEING RESCUED--15 SEC COMMERCIAL PROCEEDS THE ACTUAL VIDEO--BE PATIENT

 

'Holly' the coyote rescued from Lake Michigan

December 17, 2010

A Fire Department boat rescued a coyote spotted floating on a patch of ice hundreds of yards out on Lake Michigan this morning.The female coyote was seen around 9:30 a.m. off Fullerton Avenue, curled up on a piece of ice barely bigger than herself. 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 she kept drifting away. Finally, the stern of the boat slid toward the coyote and a worker for the city's Animal Care and Control leaned out and snatched the coyote with a long-handled snare and pulled her aboard.
"This is a life experience for me," said Miguel Hernandez, who pulled the coyote aboard. "I'm just happy she's rescued."Animal Control workers named the coyote "Holly," for the holidays, and said she was "resting comfortably" at an animal shelter that cares for injured and orphaned wildlife.

The coyote was "alert" when she arrived at the shelter, Flint Creek Wildlife center in Barrington, just before 5 p.m., said Flint Creek founder Dawn Keller.A medical exam found that the coyote is in generally good health, but has some frostbite on the pads of her feet, Keller said. Although "any frostbite is serious," there appears to have been no tissue death yet, and Flint Creek will be treating her to try to make sure she doesn't suffer any permanent damage, Keller said.

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