OMG! Amazing coyote survives colision... - Pet forum for dogs cats and humans

bendyfoot · #1 November 20th, 2009, 12:28 PM

Unbeleivable pictures in the link!!! Nothing graphic/gory, don't worry! :-)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...-SURVIVED.html

Meet the wiliest of all coyotes: Hit by a car at 75mph, embedded in the fender, and dragged for 600 miles - but Tricky SURVIVED
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 6:13 PM on 28th October 2009
Comments (145) Add to My Stories When a brother and sister struck a coyote at 75mph they assumed they had killed the animal and drove on.
They didn't realise this was the toughest creature ever to survive a hit-and-run.

Eight hours, two fuel stops, and 600 miles later they found the wild animal embedded in their front fender - and very much alive.
Wily coyote: The animal's head can be seen as rescuers took apart the front fender to save it after it was struck by the car at 75mph

'We knew it was bad': Tevyn East, who was in the car when it hit the coyote, bends down to take a look at the fur poking through the fender
And - as if to prove the point - the wily coyote later escaped from where it was being kept to recover.
Daniel and Tevyn East were driving at night along Interstate 80 near the Nevada-Utah border when they noticed a pack of coyotes near the roadside on October 12.
When one of the animals ran in front of the car, the impact sounded fatal so the siblings thought there no point in stopping.
'Right off the bat, we knew it was bad,' Daniel explained. 'We thought the story was over.'
After the incident around 1am, they continued their 600 mile drive to North San Juan - even stopping for fuel at least twice.
Fur Pete's sake: What Mr East spotted as he bent down to inspect the damage to his car - the body of the coyote poking out through the radiator

Miracle escape: As the animal struggled, wildlife protection officials put a loop around its neck to prevent it from further injuring itself
But it was only when they finally reached their destination at 9am did they take time to examine what damage they may have sustained.
At first it looked as though it was going to be quite gruesome.

'[Daniel] saw fur and the body inside the grill,' Tevyn East said. 'I was trying to keep some distance. Our assumption was it was part of the coyote - it didn't register it was the whole animal.'
Daniel East got a broom to try and pry the remains out of the bumper and got the shock of his life.
'It flinched,' Tevyn East said. 'It was a huge surprise - he got a little freaked out.'
The front of the car is completely taken apart as the coyote begins to wriggle free

And voila! Tricky the toughest coyote ever rests in a cage after its ordeal - which it survived with just some scrapes to its paw
The pair immediately phone Wildlife Rehabilitation and Release.

'We could see a little bit of blood, not a lot, and we couldn't see any wounds,' Tevyn East said. 'We didn't know if it was suffering and we should put it out of its misery, or if we could rescue it. But we realized we were going to have to take the front end of the car off to get to it.'
The coyote had been thoroughly embedded between the front fender and radiator of their Honda Fit car - and had amazingly survived the journey without any broken bones or internal injuries.
'It just had some scrapes on its paw,' Daniel East said.

The coyote - which was nicknamed Tricky - became active while trying to escape the car space so, fearing severe internal injuries, wildlife rescue worker Jan Crowell managed to snare a loop around its neck.
Jan took the coyote to a kennel in her yard while figuring out where to release it.
But three days later the coyote saw its chance - and escaped by wriggling beneath the bottom bar of the cage.

'Now it's a local coyote,' Tevyn East said.

'This coyote is amazing. If you look at the front of our car, the grill broke and acted like a net to soften the impact. It's pretty insane ... somehow the conditions were just right for it to survive the trip. We're trying to tell the story to people, to family and friends back home, but people can't wrap their minds around it.'
'We named it Tricky for a reason,' Daniel East said.

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hazelrunpack · #2 November 20th, 2009, 01:16 PM

Wasn't there just another story like this going around about a snowy owl that ended up behind a grill and miraculously survived a 600 mph trip?

Somethin' just doesn't seem right here...

75 mph is pretty fast...a grill hits you, which at that speed would feel like it's made of steel...and somehow, you manage to break through with no life-threatening injuries?

Impossible?

I think it's worthy of skepticism, at least.

If I have to, I can eat my words later.

bendyfoot · #3 November 20th, 2009, 01:24 PM

did you see the pics? they don't look staged to me...

hazelrunpack · #4 November 20th, 2009, 01:25 PM

I can't open the link.

But the ones of the owl didn't look staged, either...

bendyfoot · #5 November 20th, 2009, 01:29 PM

yeah, it's all over several news sources, including tv news...it's legit. :-)

hazelrunpack · #6 November 20th, 2009, 01:29 PM

Here was the story that Cath posted on pets:

http://www.pets.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=66731

No pics, though...and I misremembered how far it traveled

But I got an email version, too, with a link to pics...deleted it along with the ones of the deer wrapped around the engine...which is the one I think where the car supposedly drove for 600 miles before the owner realized the deer he'd hit had been under the hood the whole time