6 - I thought of you

tawillers

Because coyotes are in the news.

Parts of our city are having a coyote problem.  It's mostly on the outskirts, but one guy in particular is having a bad time with them.  He says he's seen a pack of 20 and one of his horses was mauled a couple weeks ago.  He has seen other animals dead around his property.  He's been asking the city to change its ordinance so he can hunt them with a shotgun.

Also, DH had an argument the other day with a guy who insisted that "coyote" was just another word for "wolf" and that they were the same thing.  DH said he spent way too much time trying to correct this guy.

Heffalump

I've heard that there are coyotes near us, and I swear I thought I heard them the other night.  Like a pack of dogs, but higher pitched?  I am paranoid about them getting the cat--she's an indoor cat, but as you can see from yesterday's bus stop outing, she sometimes goes out briefly.  I'm afraid one of those times, we won't notice she's out and will lock up and go to bed.  I've been known to wake up at 3:00 and if she's not on our bed or DD's bed, shake a bag of treats so she comes running and I know she's in.

6fsn

A pack of coyotes would be the icing on this week/month.  The one we have is getting braver.  He used to just run the fence line, but he was in our yard Sunday.  I went out  and yelled (per naturalist advice) and he ran away.

0Face

Wow.  Dude really thought:


and

are the same?  He missed a few rungs.

Heffalump

ftrMrs0 said:

Wow.  Dude really thought:


and

are the same?  He missed a few rungs.

These are the same people who call chimps and gorillas "monkeys."  (DS has an animal board book that says "monkey" under what is clearly a chimp, and it makes me crazy.)

tawillers

I know, O!  DH said he finally realized he was arguing with a special kind of idiot and just gave up.

GBCK

Heffalump said:

These are the same people who call chimps and gorillas "monkeys."  (DS has an animal board book that says "monkey" under what is clearly a chimp, and it makes me crazy.)

I have corrected (with a label and a marker) 'that's not my monkey'--because it's a frigging orangutan. 

We have coyotes around--just down the street they lost rabbits and chickens to them repeatedly.  And I do actually worry about the dog sometimes--she's never outside when we're not home, and she's 60#, but she's also a wuss w/ bad knees.

I see their tracks but never see them

6fsn

I see this guy. We have a metropark just to the south and a wooded area to the north so we get a lot of deer, hawks, and apparently coyote. I kind of want to throw the cat at him, but I don't want to encourage him to stay.

Heffalump

GBCK said:

Heffalump said:

These are the same people who call chimps and gorillas "monkeys."  (DS has an animal board book that says "monkey" under what is clearly a chimp, and it makes me crazy.)

I have corrected (with a label and a marker) 'that's not my monkey'--because it's a frigging orangutan. 

We have coyotes around--just down the street they lost rabbits and chickens to them repeatedly.  And I do actually worry about the dog sometimes--she's never outside when we're not home, and she's 60#, but she's also a wuss w/ bad knees.

I see their tracks but never see them

The proudest day of my parenting life was when the Woozle was 4 and we read something about a butterfly building a cocoon, and she said "That's silly.  Butterflies don't build cocoons, moths build cocoons.  Butterflies build chrysalises."  She was a butterfly for Halloween the year before, so we'd read a lot of butterfly books.