Aldi Coyote Resting At Wildlife Center Before Being Released Into Wild

CHICAGO — A coyote that was yanked by its tail from the refrigerated section at an ALDI store in Chicago, is now resting at a wildlife refuge.

A video posted Monday showed two Chicago police officers armed with a shopping cart and cleaning tools attempting to wrangle the coyote at the store in the 800 block of North Kedzie Avenue in the city’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. The video, posted Monday by X user @EddieBarstool, was viewed over 7 million times as of Tuesday.

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Later that evening, Chicago Animal Care and Control transferred the Aldi coyote to Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation.

Flint Creek staff theorize that the coyote entered an open door of the grocery store trying to escape human traffic and then hid in the refrigerated section in an attempt to hide from people inside the store.

“One of our volunteers picked him up last night from Chicago Animal Care and Control. He arrived back at our facility at approximately 7 p.m., the wildlife rehab center said on Facebook.”

There was a similar situation back in 2007 where a coyote entered a Quiznos in downtown Chicago.

“That coyote was healthy and was released following evaluation,” Flint Creek officials said.

The ALDI coyote is unharmed, but he is scared. Flint Creek officials said it will return him to the wild as he is ready.

The coyote that was yanked by its tail from the refrigerated section of Aldi in downtown Chicago is resting at Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation