Exclusive: Jar-Headed Coyote Freed by Heroic Couple
Roel Garcia and his partner Jeff Bryant say they were sitting outside on Sunday when the oddest thing happened. An emaciated coyote puppy with a large mayonnaise jar stuck on its head walked into their yard.
What followed is nothing short of pure heroism.
"We were sitting on the back patio, I saw this coyote coming up to us and thought it was strange," Garcia tells Seattle Weekly today. "I saw the jar on his head. My partner said 'We need to try and get it off.'"
"So Jeff creeped up from the bushes and leapt out to try and catch him. But the coyote managed to run away. But then the coyote tripped--I think because he was so weak--and Jeff leapt out again and this time he grabbed him, pulled the jar off, and then he ran away into the woods."
Garcia, who lives near Rainier Beach on 51st Avenue South and South Ruggles Street, says that the animal was extremely skinny, and after they got the jar off its head, they put food and water out for it. They say they haven't seen it since.
Garcia also says that neither he nor his partner had heard about the coyote's plight before they saved it. Afterward, Garcia says that a friend e-mailed him a bunch of news coverage about the coyote and its ever-worsening plight, and he realized that they'd probably made a bunch of animal lovers very happy.
Seattle Animal Control Enforcement Supervisor Don Baxter confirmed Garcia's tale and says he believes the animal should survive. "With the coyote having no jar on its head, it probably has good scavenging instincts so it can go eat some garbage," Baxter says. "There's also water very close by. They're pretty resourceful animals. It should be fine."
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