Pets

'Lost Puppy' Brought To Police Turns Out To Be Coyote

The coyote was quite the attraction at the Bartlett Police Department before being taken to the Willowbrook Wildlife Center.

BARTLETT, IL – The Bartlett Police Department handled a situation that it doesn't deal with every day. In a post on the Bartlett Police Department's Facebook page on Thursday, authorities said they were brought what they thought was just a cute puppy found by a concerned resident along a busy road. Turns out, what they thought was a puppy turned out to be a coyote.

"He was quite the attraction" at the local police department before he was turned over to Willowbrook Wildlife Center in Glen Ellyn.


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Photo via the Bartlett Police Department Facebook page

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