Appearances can be deceiving. I was in a campground one night years
ago in southern Arizona when I heard a coyote making plaintive
yapping sounds that drive a dog wild in one of the camper vehicles.
The owners let it out probably not hearing the coyote, just the
barking of their collie sized dog. The dog charged out into the
darkness after the coyote and soon I heard the noise of the pack and
the cries of the dog as they killed it and ate it. It was a stunning
experience knowing exactly what was happening without seeing a thing.
You probably saved the dogs life.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On May 16, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Scott Gomez wrote:
>
> I had the delightful experience this evening of witnessing a minor
> comedy that had me too stunned to think to grab the camera ('twas
> in the
> trunk, and I totally forgot it was there).
>
> Got home just at dusk, in fairly thick fog. Just as I exited the car,
> the neighbor's dog could be heard approaching at a high rate of speed,
> barking her head off. I've a 100 yd (or thereabouts) driveway, and as
> she got closer, I noticed a much harder-to-distinguish shape just
> ahead
> of her. She was in full chase, and the shape she was chasing turned
> out
> to be a coyote, whose mottled coat was very effective camouflage. The
> poor coyote was so flustered at being pursued by the barking, snarling
> beast on its heels that it failed to note another neighbor's wire
> fence,
> ricocheted off same, and then--fully panicked--charged right past
> me and
> on up-slope through my lot. About half-way up my lot, it realized
> it was
> no longer being pursued and stopped for a moment to take stock of the
> situation before loping off, mortified.
>
> The reason for the end of the pursuit? The neighbor's dog is afraid of
> me (for reasons entirely beyond my understanding).
>
> The pursuer? A 7-10 pound Pomeranian-and-who-knows-what-else mongrel.
> All of about 12 inches tall.
> The pursuee? Somewhere about 75% of the size of a German Shepherd.
>
> Which proves, as I see it, what men have been saying for years... Size
> doesn't matter. :-)
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