Wily Coyote
by carolynholm
Dear Alpha Mommy,
I’ve been looking everywhere!!!!! What did you do with our visitor??????
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
Our visitor? Do you mean when our neighbor stopped by?
Love, Carolyn
Dear Alpha Mommy,
No, last night’s exciting visitor.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
Last night? What visitor?
Love, Carolyn
Dear Alpha Mommy,
The exciting coyote!!!!!!!
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
Oh, the coyote. You all need to calm down about that coyote. It wasn’t a visitor. It was just a recording.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Alpha Mommy,
Mia said he was real! Where is he? How can he be so good at hiding????
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
I was thumbing through Facebook and I found a post with some recordings of local wild animal sounds. None of you even looked up when I played the fox sounds. And I have to say those foxes made some hair-raising cries.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Alpha Mommy,
We were asleep.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
You were indeed. And you slept through the bobcat. And the raccoon. And you even slept through the coyote howl. But when we got to the coyote barky sounds, all three of your heads snapped up! It was quite a reaction.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Alpha Mommy,
He was in your phone? We were wondering where he was!!!!! Mia was really worried.
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
I could see she was. When I saw how alarmed she was, I stopped it. I don’t want any of you to worry.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Alpha Mommy,
But what did you do with him? We want to know where he is hiding now! I want to see him! His barks sounded so attractive!!!
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
I sent him on his way. But I’ll bring him back for you now and then. Just for some excitement.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Alpha Mommy,
You can do that?
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
With the tap of my thumb.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Alpha Mommy,
That’s magic!
XOXO Poppy
Dear Poppy,
I know.
Love, Carolyn
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One wonders why they only responded to a coyote bark? That’s really interesting…you say they found it attractive. Yet I’m wondering if it represented danger to both the cats and dog? Also, why some of the other animal sounds didn’t disturb their sleep. Fascinating!
I know, right? I would have thought the other animal sounds would have had them on their feet. At any rate, the cats didn’t find it at all attractive – they were quite alarmed. Poppy thought it was cool to have a dog in the house, which is how I think she thought of the barking sound. She loves meeting other dogs.