A remarkably resilient creature...I read an account one tjme about a coyote that the writer claimed could gauge a shooters accuracy and hover just beyond where the bullets were landing near him.

I have an ambivalent relationship with them; I understand their place in nature, but I also own small dogs, i.e., dinner in coyotes' eyes.

Only fairly recently did I read that the term prairie wolf actually refers to coyotes.

I love my coyotes, although in my area they are considered vermin and anyone can shoot them anytime. They are free to safely roam on my almost 20 acre property. I’ve come face to face with a number of them including a big male I named Peter. I’ve never had any negative incidents with them.

I’ve been face to face in close proximity with a large male wolf who used to visit my property. He had a large V pattern on his back. I haven’t seen him since that first year.

That or he was thinking of the products he needed to order from Acme...

....was he holding an Acme box?