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I walked by the commotion this afternoon and didn't pay attention. If you know where the lions are outside of the Art Institute on Michigan Avenue is, you are 150' east of where this happened.
i don;t know if i should feel frightened or sad by this. then again, we have enough rats in the alley and on lower wacker a coyote would feel right at home.
"Coyote visits Loop restaurant but doesn't eat"
By Mary Owen
Tribune staff reporter
Published April 3, 2007, 8:17 PM CDT
Maybe it was the smell of the smoked turkey on rosemary Parmesan bread.
Shortly after lunchtime on Tuesday, a docile coyote nonchalantly wandered through the propped-open door of a Quiznos submarine sandwich shop in downtown Chicago.
The handful of startled customers calmly walked out of the shop, Quiznos manager Bina Patel said.
"It was kind of like a medium-sized dog," Patel said. "At first, we thought it was a dog. We don't get dogs walking in, but it's more believable than a coyote."
Officials picked up the year-old male about 2:30 p.m., an hour after it had entered the restaurant at 37 E. Adams St. in the Loop, said Anne Kent, director of Animal Care and Control.
The animal ate nothing and no on was harmed.
Coyotes are more partial to small rodents, rabbits and trash, animal control officials said.
The coyote was the second in less than a week picked up in the city. A 2-year-old male was found near 31st and Wells Streets on Friday. He was taken to the Flint Creek Rehabilitation Center in Barrington, home to all of Chicago's transplanted urban coyotes.
Two weeks ago, a coyote was captured near Sheridan Road and Diversey Parkway in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, Kent said.
About 10 to 15 coyotes are captured every year in Chicago, primarily in April and May when they are most active, Kent said. They usually live near waste containers and railroad tracks, away from large numbers of humans, she said.
Animal Care and Control receives calls of coyote sightings almost weekly, Kent said.
About 1:30 p.m., the coyote walked into the restaurant and plopped down in front of the soda cooler.
"It wasn't aggressive at all," Patel said. "It was just looking around. There were people outside taking pictures. We had a pretty big crowd looking in and taking pictures."
Coyotes typically are not aggressive toward humans, animal control officials said.
i don;t know if i should feel frightened or sad by this. then again, we have enough rats in the alley and on lower wacker a coyote would feel right at home.
"Coyote visits Loop restaurant but doesn't eat"
By Mary Owen
Tribune staff reporter
Published April 3, 2007, 8:17 PM CDT
Maybe it was the smell of the smoked turkey on rosemary Parmesan bread.
Shortly after lunchtime on Tuesday, a docile coyote nonchalantly wandered through the propped-open door of a Quiznos submarine sandwich shop in downtown Chicago.
The handful of startled customers calmly walked out of the shop, Quiznos manager Bina Patel said.
"It was kind of like a medium-sized dog," Patel said. "At first, we thought it was a dog. We don't get dogs walking in, but it's more believable than a coyote."
Officials picked up the year-old male about 2:30 p.m., an hour after it had entered the restaurant at 37 E. Adams St. in the Loop, said Anne Kent, director of Animal Care and Control.
The animal ate nothing and no on was harmed.
Coyotes are more partial to small rodents, rabbits and trash, animal control officials said.
The coyote was the second in less than a week picked up in the city. A 2-year-old male was found near 31st and Wells Streets on Friday. He was taken to the Flint Creek Rehabilitation Center in Barrington, home to all of Chicago's transplanted urban coyotes.
Two weeks ago, a coyote was captured near Sheridan Road and Diversey Parkway in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, Kent said.
About 10 to 15 coyotes are captured every year in Chicago, primarily in April and May when they are most active, Kent said. They usually live near waste containers and railroad tracks, away from large numbers of humans, she said.
Animal Care and Control receives calls of coyote sightings almost weekly, Kent said.
About 1:30 p.m., the coyote walked into the restaurant and plopped down in front of the soda cooler.
"It wasn't aggressive at all," Patel said. "It was just looking around. There were people outside taking pictures. We had a pretty big crowd looking in and taking pictures."
Coyotes typically are not aggressive toward humans, animal control officials said.
