I'll second that.
Not many wolves here in DuPage County, but plenty of coyotes. If anything like the coyotes, I find it unlikely.
I see them often in on winter evenings, when out with my dogs.
Including one that ran up about TEN FEET, from my two ferocious(?) Australian Shepherds, and I.
The dogs and I did not like this, he turned and ran off.
I asked our veterinarian about this, he said not to worry, with a little dog be concerned.
He walks his dogs in the forest preserve next to his house each evening, no problems.
I had a roommate who used to live in the Santa Cruz mountains.
One evening he was sitting on his porch quietly admiring the view when a coyote hopped up on the porch, sat down next to his chair and used this slightly higher perch to look out over the same view.
Then the coyote looked up and realized he was there!
It got this horrified ‘OH CRAP!’ look.
He said he never saw one move so fast...
I was skeptical too. If only one attacked him, rabies maybe? Or if it were the end of a long winter with few available prey, that might be believable.
Regarding coyote, they hang around farms in our part of the woods, trying to eat small livestock. We recently rescued a farm dog that supposedly attacks coyote and other predators. I know they don’t harm humans, but to hear coyote call while sitting around the camp fire in pitch darkness will make the hair on your neck stand up.
Adams county is about one hundred miles due east of me. I live in a heavily wooded and hilly part of Wisconsin, La Crosse County. While there are plenty of bears, coyotes, and a few puma sightings, there have been no wolf sightings in my county to my knowledge.
Although there have been confirmed wolf sightings in the next county east. I'm wondering if the guy didn't encounter some little larger coyotes.
We are neighbors. Dupage County myself.
I agree with you re: the coyotes. They are quite common here. I see them sometimes on the Prairie Path, and, of course, in the forest preserves. They are in my neighborhood, as well, as I’ve seen a few while walking my dog.
There are plenty of wolves up there.
And the coyotes here in DuPage have pretty much lost the fear of people now. When we walk the dogs Mr Springield is always with us.
L