Andrew Smith runs most evenings along the Towpath Trail across from the Steelyards in Tremont, his neighborhood in Cleveland. Lately, he’s had company.
“[The first time] I saw the coyote I was a little nervous for a moment just running into this animal just so far from any accessible street if I needed to run away,” he said. “But it was so clearly more scared of me than I was of it that I was only nervous for a moment before the fear is gone.”
Smith said he watched the coyote peeing on light posts and trash cans, likely marking its territory to keep other coyotes away…