Came across a link to a real coyote diary Tuesday -- off the Echo Park Animal Alliance list. A woman in Wyoming adopted a ten-day old coyote some months ago, and her Daily Coyote blog is a love letter to the small canine, who lives puppyishly with a cat and the author in a one-room cabin. Cute photos of the domestic pet snuggled up in comfy blankets, trying to climb a ladder, kissing the cat -- all ears and snout.

Meanwhile, as for coyotes of Echo Park (the dog kind), I saw one Sunday. It was 8:15 a.m. and I was in my car on Cerro Gordo near Lemoyne. I've seen a lot of dingy-gray coyotes this year, including one that was in awful condition, missing almost all of the fur on his hind quarters (saw that one on Landa).