While walking the dog this morning, the dog started getting really excited. My sleepy eyes finally focused on a Coyote stationed at the entrance to an alley about 40 feet away. I stopped and pulled the dog back toward me but all he wanted to do was say hi to the new dog. I started yelling and all the coyote did was stand there and stare. My dog was now freaking out so I started to back away and the coyote started following us. Talk about terrifying!
More yelling, more hand waving and we had a stand off. Someone came out of one of the apartments on to her deck and I told her what was happening. She suggested a call to animal control which I found kind of unhelpful since I had no phone and an emergency situation on my hands and NOTHING at hand to throw.
She found something small on her deck to throw and I finally found a tin can which got him to back off a bit, but not much. As she called Animal Control, I kept yelling and stomping in the direction of the coyote who pretty much held its ground.
Finally I found a large rock and as I got ready to heave it, the coyote seemed to understand that I had something with weight in my hands and bolted back down the alley. I backed back up my street to keep an eye out and went back inside with my poor terrified dog.
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