Coyote-fur chairs get the boot from the Baccarat Hotel

Coyotes around town — and animal lovers — can howl with relief. The new Baccarat Hotel, on West 53rd Street, is booting a dozen-odd coyote-fur chairs from the hotel’s high-priced Grand Salon lounge after The Post called attention to the ferocious furniture. It’s too late for the slaughtered beasts, but at least it will spare lounge-goers’ sore butts from chairs less comfy than they look — as I noted in my review of the obscenely expensive Grand Salon on Friday. “[The chairs] will be replaced with linen chairs within 10 days,” Starwood Capital Group design chief Kemper Hyers says in a letter to a Post reader sent on Sunday. “Our chairman [Barry Sternlicht] . . . [was] equally upset about them when they arrived from France.” The Grand Salon, coyotes included, has been open since March 18. Hyers was responding to reader Wayne Johnson of Brooklyn, who wrote to him, “A New York Post review . . . says the hotel has coyote seats. “Coyotes are shy, loyal, misunderstood animals . . . much persecuted by cattle ranchers and other institutions . . . Murdering them for style and comfort is . . . obscene,” Johnson wrote...more

Doesn't that describe every coyote you've come across?  However, I'm shy, loyal and misunderstood too...and they call me Mad Dog.