Remember my post about the woman who had accidentally gotten a coyote from an animal shelter? We laughed about the idea of someone trying to raise a coyote?

Well today, thanks again to the stupidpetowners community on LiveJournal (they weren’t saying this woman is a stupid pet owner, just  remembering that post and showing us this neat website), here’s a site from a woman who lives with a coyote that she has raised from when he was a baby.

Charlie the coyote was dropped on the blogger’s doorstep as a baby; Charlie’s parents were killed as apparently people kill coyotes left and right in Wyoming. The blogger rescued him and hand rasied him and now he’s a year old. They have a fascinating relationship- the blogger says most of their communication is by eye contact. They seem to be very in sync with each other.

She even neutered him herself. I can only imagine what that must have been like. She also does most of his doctoring herself- he got Parvo and she did all the shots and IV stuff herself. This makes sense because coyotes will only trust "their" humans- in this case, the blogger and a close neighbor friend of theirs. A vet could be seriously hurt, and I cannot imagine taking a coyote into a vet’s office.

I love how she is very realistic- she’s received many emails from people who say things like "oh! I want a coyote pup!" not knowing the kind of work that is involved in keeping him and other people safe. She’s very clear that although she has a special relationship with him and he probably could not survive on his own in the wild, that he is still a wild animal and should be respected and treated as such.

Seriously, head over to the website and check it out for yourself. I spent several hours pouring over the beautiful pictures and learning more about life with Charlie.

[Image: Wikipedia because you MUST go see her pictures at the site. I'm not even going to do a teaser image. They're that good.]