the Cape Coral Fire Department. <\/a><\/p>\nThe animal eventually came to rest and crawled up under a dock, offering rescuers a chance to pull the pooch to safety.<\/p>\n
Firefighters were soon stunned when they realized they rescued \u201cwhat turned out to be a coyote pup\u201d from the body of water, the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The young coyote \u2014 which bared its small fangs in photos released by the department \u2014 was \u201cexhausted\u201d by its adventure and could not be released.<\/p>\n
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The exhausted pup was taken to East West Veterinary Care Center for rehabilitation. Cape Coral Fire Department), (Credit: Cape Coral Fire Department), (Credit: Cape Coral Fire Department), (Credit: Cape Coral Fire Department), (Credit: Cape Coral Fire Department<\/p>\n
The wild pup was taken to East West Veterinary Care Center for rehabilitation. <\/p>\n
Both Judd and a nearby neighbor, Brian, who initially tried to jump in after seeing the coyote fall into the lake, were awarded community recognition coins for their help with the rescue. <\/p>\n
\u201cHis efforts caught the attention of other neighbors who called 9-1-1 and Denae,\u201d the department said of Brian. \u201cThis save was a great team effort!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a coyote who cried wolf. Authorities who rushed to rescue a \u201cdog\u201d struggling in a Florida…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6742,1779,28,30,29,4278,57346],"class_list":["post-317815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-animal-rescue","tag-firefighters","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-us-news","tag-water-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Fire rescue crews responded to a call of a \u201cdog in a canal\u201d in Britannia Lake on Monday, but the stranded canine turned out to be a coyote pup. Cape Coral Fire Department), (Credit: Cape Coral Fire Department), (Credit: Cape Coral Fire Department), (Credit: Cape Coral Fire Department), (Credit: Cape Coral Fire Department<\/p>\n