News From The Homefront
☆ May 2, 2012
Hi All ~ Many readers have forwarded me this recent article regarding Wildlife Services. Thank you! It’s a great article. Those of you who’ve read The Daily Coyote know that Mike has worked for Wildlife Services, however, two months ago, Mike made the decision to end his career with Wildlife Services. While he still believes in protecting livestock, he could no longer support Wildlife Service’s current methods and practices which result in nothing more than the mass genocide of coyotes.
Red, Green, & Blond
☆ April 30, 2012
Eli & Rue
☆ April 22, 2012
I’ve been getting a bunch of questions on The Daily Coyote about Eli, and why he’s not in photographs much anymore, and this is why. He runs all night and sleeps all day. All day. Charlie sleeps all night and plays all day so there’s not that much overlap, but when Eli does grant Charlie the thrill of his presence, Charlie is as submissive and worshipful as ever. Both Charlie and Chloe defer to all the cats, actually.
The Farmily began with just Eli and me, and he has been so chill with all the animals who have moved into his house ~ saintly, really ~ and if he doesn’t want to model, I don’t make him model. That’s it!
Random Status Report
☆ April 17, 2012
The trickery worked. We jacketed the calf, which (skip to the next paragraph if you’re squeamish) means skinning the dead calf and putting that hide onto the orphan calf ~ four holes are cut in the corners of the hide for the orphan’s legs to pass through; this keeps the hide anchored across her back.
Mama cows know their calf through sight and sound but confirm it through scent, and jacketing confuses the mother enough to let the new calf nurse. Once the orphan calf has its new mother’s milk coursing through its body for a day or two, the calf begins to smell like her, becomes hers, and the jacket can come off. This mama is wholly devoted to her new baby.
Oreo, NICU baby, is the princess of the herd. One would never know, looking at her now, how tenuous her first days were. She’s strong and playful and curious, chasing chickens, ringleader of the calves.
I made this, following the cold recipe she links to near the bottom of her post and it is AMAZING, like distractingly good, like I was walking into walls because the only thing my consciousness could register was the deliciousness of shrub in my mouth.
My Giant
☆ April 12, 2012
MY NEW BOOK!
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