Coyote Howls

[amiguriken]

I live in the mountains, and when I say that, I mean that I live miles away from the nearest small town and surrounded by woods. True, my little holler is more crowded than it was when I was a child (there are now six houses within close walking distance of one another instead of two), but we're still country out here

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[mattamus]

I was trying to sleep in a tent on a river once, and there was a pack in the distance. I thought they were dogs at first, but as the night went on, and after a girl described earlier in the night how crazy their howls could become, I realized that they were coyotes...and I have never in my life heard a sound like the ones that they began to make. They seriously sounded like aliens. There are no words to describe what my ears heard that night.

[jewelsprite]

It has now been over ten years since I heard the howls, but I know exactly what you mean. One was outside the chicken coop, which was not more than 30 feet from the back porch from the farm house and let out a howl onto the evening gloom. The others answered from their posts in the accompanying fields. It was truly eerie. The cats left their window posts for the couch and I retreated from the back porch into the house.