BOLINGBROOK (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A Bolingbrook woman is raising a warning about a coyote that attacked her and her dog the other day on a popular walking path.
Ann Reinerston was walking Sunday on the Lily Cache Creek Trail with her dog, Chip, a 75 pound beagle-shepherd mix when a coyote attacked her.
“This coyote, who looked horrible, had a lot of fur missing and looked sick, charged at us,” she told CBS 2. “It kept biting at my toes of my tennis shoes and was trying to jump on my back. Chip was about to bite, and the coyote was about to bite, and I pulled chip back. It was just awful...
“I thought we were going to die."
Coyotes are known to frequent the area and usually leave people and dogs alone, but after hearing about Sunday’s attack, Bolingbrook Police and animal control a warning online and closed the trail; but people are regularly ignoring the warning.
“I know the city is putting up ‘path closed’ signs, and if people choose to ignore them, they’re walking at their own risk,” Reinerston said.
The coyote’s den was found back in the brush near the trail. According to CBS 2, Bolingbrook now has park district officers patrolling the trail and nearby parks.
Coyotes are protected animals under the Illinois Wildlife Code, and it is up to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to grant a permit to have the coyote removed. Only then can the coyotes here be relocated.
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