Those who were wondering what a coyote looked like last Spring when the countryside of Mecklenburg county was stirred by the reported presence of a wild “varmint,” which finally came to be referred to as the “Providence Panther,” may satisfy themselves as to a coyote by calling on Jack G. Baird jr. of 701 South Tryon Street.
Mr. Baird received by shipment from the West a few days ago a cage containing two healthy young coyotes three months old. They were caught off the plains and shipped here by a friend of Mr. Baird’s. the animals have attracted much attention on the streets as their owner led them up about attached to a small chain.
Mr. Baird has spent much time in the West, a part of the time on a ranch in Colorado, and knows all about the ways of coyotes and animals of the prairie. When he returned to Charlotte several weeks ago from the West he heard about the reports that coyotes or a wolf, or a panther, or some other sort of wild animal had caused excitement here, he wrote to the Western friend to send him along a couple of coyotes.
The young animals are silent in daylight, but when the shadows of night fall they set up dismal howlings indicating they are lonesome and homesick for the wide stretches of the prairie.
From The Charlotte News, Wednesday, June 22, 1921
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