Video taking off 11x its usual first day

A calm coyote, a fence and a cigarette that never moved lift Sassy

Eight hours after it went up, the rescue clip had passed 1.4 million views, and the comments are as much about the man's cigarette as about the coyote.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 2,925,599 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (271,206).

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A coyote walked free. Sassy, the channel that gathers animal-rescue clips from around the world, posted the short moment on September 30. A coyote is stuck fast in a fence, a man stops, and he carefully cuts the fence away from around it. The description says the animal stayed remarkably calm through the whole job, then got away safely once it was loose.

The clip had passed 1.4 million views eight hours after it went up. That puts it on course for about eleven times what a new Sassy upload usually draws on its first day. It is a big jump even for a channel that has been busy lately. As we reported here, Sassy crossed a million subscribers only days ago, not long after a jaguar clip swam past ten million.

The comment section has split into two conversations. One is about the coyote. Many viewers wonder how long it had been trapped, and some guess days. Others point out how worn out it looked, or how surprised it seemed that anyone would help. The other conversation is about the rescuer, and above all about the cigarette that, by many viewers' accounts, never left his lips while he worked. Some are even trading guesses about the brand.

The coyote has plenty of company. Sassy's last few days have been a procession of stuck animals. A goose was tangled in rope. A giant leatherback sea turtle was guided out of a swamp near Oping Beach in Indonesia. A snapping turtle was pulled from a flooded pond's overflow pipe. An echidna was carried out of the rising Macquarie River near Warren, New South Wales. The goose clip, two days older, still has more views than the coyote, but not by much.

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What viewers say

  • The coyote seemed genuinely shocked that the guy helped him.
    @BulldogsGreyhoundsSee it on YouTube
  • He didn’t even drop his cigarette 😂❤❤❤❤
    @jessicadee1753See it on YouTube
  • When a human acts human. it's something to see.

Public comments from the video's page on YouTube

The facts
Channel
Sassy
Subscribers
1,050,000
Channel views, pace per day
57,636,601 (on a normal day: 37,295,585)
Video published
September 30, 2026
Video views so far
1,422,259 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
2,925,599

The numbers

The figures show a first day far beyond anything a new Sassy clip usually manages, even in a busy stretch for the channel.

the video's first day
usual first day here
271,206
this video
2,925,599
subscribers
1,050,000
total views
1,924,935,614
views per day
57,636,601
typical day: 37,295,585
the video
views
1,422,259
likes
44,228
comments
1,995
days online
1
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
Annika Hinds
1,150,000
WeRateDogs
1,110,000
Sassy
1,050,000
Hang
1,050,000
Jason Corey
1,030,000
Dog Whisperer with Cesar …
1,000,000
As of October 1, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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