trickster's road

[sergebroom]

I've been living in Albuquerque for almost 10 years, during which we've had coyotes, roadrunners, and cotton-tailed grey rabbits show up in our backyard. This morning at 4:30am, for the first time in that decade, I saw coyotes run across one of the nearby mainstreets, quickly in and out of my minivan's lights. That took me back 21 years, to January 1989, when my wife and I left Toronto to go live in the Bay Area, and the same thing happened somewhere along I-80.

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[miltonthales.livejournal.com]

Was he chasing a jackalope?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Nah. More likely, they were on their way back to the nearby wilderness, now that the town was starting to wake up.

[sophielandon.livejournal.com]

You do keep Agatha the Cat Genius inside?

Last place we lived had documented episodes of cat/coyote interaction, never to the good of the cat.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

We try to keep her in, but she's quite the escape artist. There was a time a few weeks ago when the cat/coyote interaction was a very close call, but that hasn't deterred her from sneaking past us to go outside. We may call her the Cat Genius, but a genius she isn't.