Advintage Distributing<\/a>, was at the shop that afternoon on a sales call. She chatted with store manager Vaughn Connolly and another employee, Ashlynn Moseley, when the coyote entered the shop.<\/p>\nThe security cameras captured his entrance and what came next.<\/p>\n
Woodward was the first to notice the coyote trot into the store. Mistaking it for a dog, she greeted the animal as if it were someone\u2019s \u201ccute\u201d pet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really, wholeheartedly just thought it was a dog,\u201d Woodward told The Post and Courier.<\/p>\n
Her tone quickly changed once she realized what the animal actually was.<\/p>\n
\u201cA coyote!\u201d Woodward yells, her shriek captured on video.<\/p>\n
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A coyote walks into A Maker\u2019s Post on Sullivan\u2019s Island on May 19, 2026.<\/p>\n
Provided\/Ashlynn Moseley
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The animal then made a beeline for the counter, where the trio of women were gathered. They yelled as they bolted to the back of the store and ran outside, the coyote slipping around and onto the countertop. It then lost its balance, knocking over Moseley\u2019s water bottle in the process.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we scared it just as much as it scared us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The women, once outside, locked the back door. Connolly, in a quick-thinking maneuver, circled to the entrance and then bolted the store\u2019s front door as well, trapping the coyote inside.<\/p>\n
While the women caught their breath trying to make sense of the bizarre encounter, the coyote made itself at home. Connolly said it curled up in a large pot in the back of the store and didn\u2019t stir until wildlife trappers showed up roughly two hours later to collect the animal. It was likely euthanized as state law prohibits trapped coyotes from being relocated or translocated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SULLIVAN\u2019S ISLAND \u2014 A coyote walking into a home goods store sounds like the start of a bad…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":832629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,147281,67,132,68,837],"class_list":["post-832628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-sullivan","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116664293523808281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}