ALL ABOUT COYOTE

Myth and Reality

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce to you a labor of love. Working painstakingly for several years, they have whittled away at this remote desert mountain to produce this image of someone we all know and love. This photograph, taken by a fellow traveller, shows the face in all its glory at the optimum shadowing. My compliments.....

March, 1997

Ahhhh! You humans are a precious lot! Every day I see more and more of you scooting around. And you just get more precious! Imagine how precious you're going to be when you are as COMMON AS DIRT! You know, you REALLY need a predator. Someone who can thin your ranks, improve the genetic base by culling out the weak and sick. Mmmm, but there's that belief of yours, that "...the weak shall inherit the earth" Occasionally I see articles about interplay between predators and humans. Guess who is the big loser?

"This is P. Shifter, KILL News, coming to you live from Verilast Wilderness Area, where John Q. Citizen has just suffered a tragic loss! Tell us JQ in your own words what happened here today"

"Sniff! I was just finishing up my duplex here, when my daughter wandered off and was ATTACKED and MAULED by a racoon! BOOHOO hoo hoo! It's just terrible! My doctor tells me she may lose the use of her left pinky! Oh, cry cry cry!"

"Ranger Richard is here to explain what happened next. Rick?"

"Yes. Well, as usual, the animal had to be euthanized, and then examined. But there are quite a few racoons around, it being the largest and most successful predator alive today. So we had to kill several of them just to make sure we had the right one, you see. At this point we're pretty sure it was just defending its burrow, where we found two babies. We've sent them off to the zoo, where they will be just fine, begging for handouts from their wire cages."

"So as you can see the story here has a happy ending. This is P. Shifter, KILL News. Back to you...Dave."

Precious. Precious.

September, 1996

I have to say, I really admire humans. As a creature, they are most adaptable. Imaginative, cunning, (gee! sounds like me. Hmmmmm.) But hold it now. This isn't the 53rd annual meeting of the mutual admiration society. Some humans are not friends of Coyote. (I briefly give myself a quick scan to assure myself that my skin and fur are still intact.) And let me assure you that the human race IS doomed. Not from any apocolypse, mind you, but from sheer boredom. My philosophy is: Humans destroy what they hate, and they destroy the things they love. Soon the world will be filled with things to which humans are indifferent.

But enough about you. Let's talk about me. You didn't come here to look in a mirror. (Or did you?) Now Coyote's needs are simple. In this lies my great strength. All I need is a decent den, a fair supply of game, and good water. Well I do like a good story now and again. Why else do you think I dreamed up humans.

See the Coyote Zen Workshop Or explore my Vault if you want to travel further. There are secrets to be uncovered, but can you smell the red herrings????. There is a path.....

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