Information and stories about San Francisco coyotes: behavior & personality, coexistence & outreach, by Janet Kessler: Unveiling first-hand just how savvy, social, sentient and singular coyotes really are!
12 Sep 2012 3 Comments
by yipps:janetkessler in coyote behavior, video
This video shows two coyotes on different days. The first coyote is a female intruder leaving my packs territory. I had thought that coyotes could walk with comfort everywhere. Now I don’t think so.
The second coyote is Dad. I wondered if, like my dog, Dad would avoid stepping in a big puddle. He did.
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About My Site and Me: This website reflects my 16 years of intense, careful, and dedicated field-work — empirical observations — all photo-documented without interfering or changing coyotes’ behaviors. Be welcome here, enjoy, and learn!
Coyotes reappeared in San Francisco in 2002 after many years of absence, and people are still in the dark about them. This site is to help bring light to their behavior and offer simple guidelines for easy coexistence.
My information comes from my own first-hand observations of our very own coyotes here in San Francisco. They have not been studied or observed so thoroughly by anyone else. Mine is not generic information, nor second-hand.
Note that none of the coyotes I document and photograph is “anonymous” to me: I know (or knew) each one of them, and can tell you about their personalities, histories, and their family situations. There have been over 100 of them, distributed among over twenty families, all in San Francisco. Images and true stories have the power to raise awareness and change perspective.
Contact: Janet@coyoteyipps.com
© All information and photos in my postings come from my own original and first-hand documentation work which I am happy to share, with permission and with properly displayed credit: ©janetkessler/coyoteyipps.com.
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Coyote Yipps 
Sep 12, 2012 @ 12:59:23
Interestingly, my dogs did the opposite: they deliberately went for all puddles rather than avoid them! They loved sticking their feet in that squishy mud! I had to accept that as part of the daily walk!
Sep 12, 2012 @ 13:08:30
Very amusing. I’m sure coyotes are as individual as humans. A lifetime of dog-owning has certainly taught me to respect the individuality of dogs. I had one dog that hated rain and would, like Charles’s, go far out of her way to avoid a puddle. My current dog, on the other hand, could care less!
Sep 13, 2012 @ 19:05:42
Points taken. Individuals they are!