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Many wild coyotes go around attacking pets and giving the canines a bad name, but coyotes were once - and with some special breeders, still are - the Native American equivalent of dogs that were native to Europe. According to the 1978 book The Clever Coyote which was published by the University of Nebraska Press, coyotes were likely semi-domesticated by multiple different pre-Columbian Native American cultures. Some nineteenth-century writers wrote about how coyotes were kept by some of the native villages in the Great Plains.

Taylor Mitchell, was a 19-year-old budding musician from Toronto, Ontario, who was on a tour to promote her debut album. The talented young singer had just released her debut Album to critical acclaim and had been nominated for Young Performer of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards.

A small town in Massachusetts has asked the government for help in culling the coyote population that is terrorizing their town. The community in Nahant, Massachusetts has been on edge as a roaming coyote population comes dangerously close to humans.

Coyote Spotted along the Walking Trails at the Presidio in San Francisco California

(Photo by Julissa Helmuth) Have you ever found a lost dog before and wanted to keep it? The main worry, in this case, would be that the dog already had an owner. Another possible concern is probably one that would never cross your mind. What if the puppy was actually an illegal to own wild animal?

Filmed a few years ago when I started my filming journeys, but stands as one of the coolest bits of animal behavior I've seen. :) Two coyotes and a badger join forces to hunt prairie dogs in eastern Montana.