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Writer Raises Wild-Born Coyote in Wyoming

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Imagine waking up one morning to find a tiny coyote pup on your doorstep. Would you keep it? Shreve Stockton did…

The Daily Coyote
is a blog all about life with Charlie the coyote in a one-room log cabin in Wyoming. Stockton was on a cross-country trip from San Fran to NYC on her Vespa when she rode through, and fell in love with, the Cowboy State. She decided to move there and shortly after doing so, she got a little surprise — a ten-day old coyote pup whose parents had been shot for killing sheep. Knowing she was his only chance at survival, she decided to raise it. Stockton posts photos of Charlie regularly at The Daily Coyote. He’s pretty adorable — so adorable, in fact, that you may leave the site wanting a coyote of your own. Don’t say I didn’t warn you…

Charlie is such a lover – he curls up on my lap and licks my face and I melt from the awe of it all. It takes enormous amounts of discipline to get any work done – when he’s awake, I want to play with him, and when he’s sleeping, I just want to gaze at him.

His first night with me, I made a nest in a box for him next to my bed. He whined and cried all night and I got no sleep whatsoever. The next night, Charlie began to whimper and I scooped him out of the box and put him in bed with me up against my body. Again, I didn’t sleep a wink, I was so afraid of rolling on him. But Charlie slept soundly through the night, and has spent every night since curled up in the crook of my neck.

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