Posted on 10/28/2009 7:46:39 AM PDT by kingattax
Meet the world's toughest coyote.
Daniel East and his sister, Tevyn, were driving at night along Interstate 80 near the Nevada-Utah earlier this month, when their car slammed into a coyote that scurried in their path, reported Rex Features.
Believing there was no way the wild animal could survive the 75 mph collision, the pair kept driving for eight more hours to their destination, where they finally inspected the damage to their car.
But it did manage to survive being dragged for 600 miles.
"Immediately I saw a ton of fur and said, 'Sis, don't look, this is bad,'" David East told the photo agency.
When the coyote started moving, however East realized the animal had survived - and was trapped between the front grill and the radiator of their car.
A local animal control expert was called to the scene and managed to extricate the coyote - which had survived its ordeal with only a few scrapes on its paw.
The animal, named Tricky and moved to a kennel at the rescue worker's home to recuperate, later escaped by wriggling under the bars of its cage, reported Rex Features.
"We named it Tricky for a reason," Daniel East said.
A coyote dubbed 'Tricky' peers out of the gap between a car's radiator and grill after being hit and trapped for eight hours...
This isn’t that strange. I saw a coyote on TV show get hit by a truck, had giant rocks fall on it, fall off a cliff, and it still lived.... BEEP BEEP!!!
bttt
This critter is nothing but a wimpy crybaby!
Mark
Can Uncle Sam borrow that sign??
Is it dead?
It looks kind of thirsty.
This is a good article. We were looking for places to go coyote hunting in West Utah. Guess we know where to start.
I hit a rabbit once while driving with my sister. We just figured, oh well. When we stopped for gas, the thing had actually ran straight into my 5-spoke wheels and shredded bunny was all over the side of the car, fur and all. Pretty amazing.
Reminds me of a friend of mine who was traveling with a factory rep on business. My friend came over a rise in the road and surprised a rather large vulture/buzzard feeding on a dead animal carcass. The large bird couldn’t get into the air before his Chevy clipped him. Didn’t kill the bird, but instead it got tangled in his grille.
Picture a p-o’ed vulture snapping at 2 guys trying to decide which one is going to attempt to dis-entagle the bird!
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