A police officer in Frankfort, Kentucky, picked up a stray dog and brought her to the local humane society. The shelter employees, who presumably see dogs every day, took a look at this one and decided that she was a coyote.
As a wild animal, the “coyote” couldn’t be kept at the shelter, so they called the police department to pick her up. At least one police officer had doubts about their assessment, but not being the animal professionals in this story, the department took the humane society at their word. They called up a wildlife expert for advice and were told that coyotes should be returned to the wild or killed.
One of the officers had taken a photo of the “coyote” before setting her loose behind a home improvement store, and the picture ending up matching the Lost Dog posters for Cooper, Lori Goodlett’s 11-year-old purebred Shiba Inu, who had escaped from her yard earlier this month.
