Tinkerbelle

Tinkerbelle

Thursday, October 13, 2011

yellow coyote

This morning, the lady came driving the little green truck thing back along our pasture to go to the mares and foals out back. There was a blonde coyote lying right in the dirt in the middle of the hill in our pasture. The coyote was looking up the hill toward the barns and didn't even move when the lady stopped the green truck across from him. "Hey you!" the lady yelled at the coyote. The coyote turned its head and looked at the lady, but didn't get up or anything. So the lady got out and walked over to the fence. "You can't just lay there. I'm a person and coyotes are supposed to run off when we show up." The coyote got up and stretched a little and then trotted a little way down the hill. It was not a very big coyote and looked like a yellow fuzzy dog. It kept turning and looking back at the lady as it sauntered toward the pond along the fence. At the bottom of the hill, it stopped and watched the lady get back in the little green truck and drive along the far side of the pond. Then it walked along the fence until it got to the end and came out and sat down to watch the lady feed the mare ponies. She saw it watching so she walked toward it and finally, it reluctantly turned around and went into the woods where us ponies have been making trails. We figured that would be the last we saw of it. But when the lady was done with those other ponies, sure enough, there was the yellow coyote again, sitting in the middle of our field, watching her. The lady asked it what the deal was and if it wanted to be a pet coyote, but it must have decided against that and it left. I don't know why the coyote thought the lady was so interesting. Unless it thought that little quiet brown and white dog she had with her smelled like breakfast.
After the rain went away, the bugs came out. The bossy dog took the lady for a walk in our woods which are really muddy. Then she brought some of us carrots and took Fusion and Toby over to the white hill so they could get beautiful. Harley was very jealous and bit us because he thought he should get to go with the lady and the carrots.