This morning though, we had a pretty scary experience. I got up early this morning (early for me on my day off - late if I was working). Anyhow, I got up and got ready because I wanted to go grocery shopping and get things put away before meeting my friend for lunch. So G works third shift...as I'm going out to let Maggie out to potty, he's outside, just home from work looking at our flowers, garden, etc. So me and Maggie dog go over to the garden with him and are looking around...Maggie is staying close by (she's behaving much better these days...) when we look up and what do we see just about 50 feet or less away standing in our yard and looking right at us/Maggie?????
That's right! A BIG SCARY COYOTE!!!!!!! I about peed my pants thinking he was going to eat Maggie right in front of us. Clearly he must cross through the yard into the field regularly...and he looked as surprised to see us as we were to see him. I looked at Maggie and she had her eyes fixed on him...I was so scared she would take off running at him like she does when she sees squirrels, birds, chipmunks....really anything so far. She has even barked and went towards big deer before. But not this time....I think maybe she recognized the danger...she just stood there and didn't make a peep....it felt like about an hour passed before I got to her (it could only have been a few seconds though, she was just about 6 feet away from me - but time was moving frame by frame...). Anyway, I kept saying in my most calm voice possible, "Maggie, stay, Maggie, stay...." Either that worked, or she knew that the big scary Coyote was not one to mess with, because she never let out a peep and she stood still. His big mangy silver/gray face just stared at us, he had piercing eyes. I scooped her up in my arms and then the Coyote ran towards the woods. He stopped about every hundered feet or so and looked back at us and just stared. I was surprised at how not-scared of us he was....that's pretty scary. I hope I never get any closer to him than that ever.
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Omg! I *would have* pissed myself.
There are coyotes here?! Suddenly I want to curl up in bed and not let Charlie out...
Hey, I know it's the middle of the week, but the Indy IF bloggers (me, Mel from indyness, Bon from Scrambled Eggz) are going to get together for a picnic on Wednesday around 6pm in Indy if you want to come. (I know you probably can't what with the timing, but we will have to get together soon.)
One of our dogs (we have 3) is about 10 lbs, white and fluffy -- in my head she looks like a rabbit to any potential predators so something like a coyote in my yard would FREAK ME OUT. Fortunately, we live in the middle of the city and the biggest "wildlife" we have around here are fat raccoons. Not that I trust her to use the good sense god gave her if she came nose-to-nose with a raccoon either...
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