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!
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.
Not at all. He defers to Eli when eating, though if a cheese treat is involved he will try to sneak Eli’s out from under him. Charlie takes meat from my fingers and doesn’t react when I reach in to move his food dish or take his toys away. He can, at times, get a bit over-protective of his elf legs, but we all know how hard elf legs are to come by.
Yes. He gnaws on them and then buries them and then other animals dig them up and gnaw on them and bury them somewhere else and then Charlie finds them, and unburies them, and gnaws on them, and buries them somewhere else.
When I saw how much Charlie loved them, I stockpiled elk legs in my freezer to give as special treats and now there are elk legs in various stages of gnawedness scattered all across the land around here.
Not at all from June to March, not even a hair. In the spring, though… he sheds TONS.
