I rescued a coyote once. It had tried to get an animal in a lose 15' piece of the black flexible drainage pipe. It was in the winter with about a foot of snow on the ground and the coyote was able to push its head into the tube but ended up getting stuck. It was at my boss's house at the time. When he came in in the morning he told me about a raccoon that was flipping around in a big pipe all over his yard through the night, he said he thought it was dead this morning but I asked if I could go try to help it and he let me. As soon as I saw it I knew it was a coyote not a raccoon. I didn't want to get bit but I wanted to try to save it. It wasn't dead, just exhausted. It's head had become frozen to the pipe so I couldn't just pull it off. I had to pour warm water on the pipe a couple buckets worth before it started to come off. It was still stuck real good though and since the coyote wasn't struggling much I decided to save it I was going to need to hold it and pull on the pipe. I struggled to get it of for a while and was getting less and less cautious as I tried. When i finally got it to pop free i ended up in a super vulnerable position where i had the coyote in my one arm and my other arm braced the pipe as it pulled off and ended up face to face with the coyote. To my surprise it just stared eye to eye with me for about 20 seconds while I tried not to make a move. It's almost like it knew I was trying to help, didn't even grawl, just stared at me within inches of my face and then just turned around and trotted off into the forest. Pretty amazing experience. They are beautiful animals and I never realized how bright their eyes are until being up close like that. Great feeling to save an animal that for sure would of died without your help.
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