photo taken August 2019

When we hear coyotes, Charlie pays very little attention to them. He looks up to the sound, because it is a sound, and then keeps going about whatever he was doing. However, we clock many miles a day in the BLM, and when we come upon coyote tracks and sign, Charlie gets very interested, very curious.

Yes, Charlie howls and I love it. It’s a great sound. He has a very complex array of vocals – yips that truly do sound like some kind of language when he really gets going; single, communicative barks; and then of course the howl. He does not howl to other coyotes. He howls when I howl, and will bark, yip and howl to his dog friends (but not other dogs). He whimpers and whines to the cat, and howls when the cat meows.  You can hear recordings of Charlie on vimeo.com, just search for daily coyote!

Charlie has officially made a full recovery and is back to his happy, frolicking self. It took a few days after he started eating again to “get his strength back,” but now we are back in the rhythm of our long walks and parvo seems so very far away. The jewel in the whole experience was being in the center of such an amazing network of support and love that sprang up around us – from the vet to the cat to you all, most of whom I’ve never even met.