{"id":6365,"date":"2020-11-08T21:27:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T02:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2020-11-08T21:29:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T02:29:33","slug":"episode-162-woody-and-the-coyotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=6365","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 162 WOODY AND THE COYOTES"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 162    WOODY AND THE COYOTES<\/p>\n
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Woody is really  worried.  Not because he is afraid he will get bitten by a coyote  He wonders why I am on the other side of the fence.<\/div>\n

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Our lot was  once part of the Mississauga First Nation land.  As a  result it is<\/div>\n
very unusual\u2026deep\u2026400 feet deep.   In addition long ago  Mary Fix donated<\/div>\n
her lots and  forested lands to the City of Mississauga.  A creek in her name,<\/div>\n
Mary Fix Creek weaves its way through those lands and  continues at the back<\/div>\n
of  our lot.  All these lands are a natural wilderness where dead  logs and<\/div>\n
underbrush are allowed to exist as if no human foot had ever tread the<\/div>\n
ground.<\/div>\n

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A perfect habitat for wild things.  When we first moved  in back  in 1968 we had<\/div>\n
visits from pheasants and deer and almost too many raccoons.  Today, 2020,<\/div>\n
we get regular visits by a family of coyotes. Their colours and their movements<\/div>\n
are not easy to see due to the verdant backdrop.<\/div>\n

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But Woody sees them.  He is not a barking dog.  Saves his voice  for <\/div>\n
coyote spotting.  Then he begins to holler.  This noisy habit may  have been<\/div>\n
caused by a surprise he got while meeting a coyote last spring..<\/div>\n
He is a very social dog   Loves others.  The coyote was not so loving and<\/div>\n
sliced Woody on he bum.   Woody could not believe it had happened.  He  fled<\/div>\n
and sought my protection.  I wondered why.  A neighbour saw the event and<\/div>\n
reported Woody\u2019s  flight.<\/div>\n

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So now we keep him fenced in the front part of  our lot and  let the coyotes<\/div>\n
have the back part of the lot.  We coexist.  And that is OK with Woody. He<\/div>\n
can bark an alert but the fence stops him from getting a  sliced<\/div>\n
bum.<\/div>\n

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The coyotes successfully raised a family and we think the young coyotes<\/div>\n
really just wanted to play with Woody.  But we cannot be sure of that.<\/div>\n
We all manage  to get along in peace.  I hope the City of  Mississauga<\/div>\n
sees the Mary Fix Park wilderness the same way we do.  We need some<\/div>\n
wild  lands.   <\/div>\n

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Our garage and workshop was once  a mink house long, long ago.   For a few  years we raised  endangered chickens here\u2026beautiful<\/div>\n
Silver Laced Wyandottes.   One  easter the chickens even laid  coloured eggs\u2026at least we believed that was so until Mr. Donovan, our<\/div>\n
neighbour fessed  up.   I even made the mistake of  believing chickens and roosters should be  kept in equal numbers.  When the light<\/div>\n
of the rising sun  hit our chicken coop those roosters made more noise than kids  at recess.  Eventually we only kept one rooster\u2026Big<\/div>\n
Red, a New Hampshire who serviced the whole coop.  Those  days are gone.<\/div>\n

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Our lot\u2026looking towards the little hidden creek at the back.  I have spotted the coyotes here occasionally but have<\/div>\n
to stare and stare and stare.<\/div>\n

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Looking towards  our house from the midway point of the wild  part of  the lot<\/div>\n

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Here is  Woody  at the fence.  He looks concerned, does  he not.  He fears a coyote is going to take a  slice of my bum.  He is<\/div>\n
trying to warn me.<\/div>\n

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Bought this  old dump rake at the auction sale of Robin and Betty Craig who once farm the housing development on Highway 10 (Hurontario)<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Nov. 2020<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EPISODE 162    WOODY AND THE COYOTES alan skeoch Nov.  2020 Woody is really  worried.  Not because he is afraid he will get bitten by a coyote  He wonders why I am on the other side of the fence. Our lot was  once part of the Mississauga First Nation land.  As a  result it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}