The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming
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When photographer and writer Shreve Stockton chose to go back to her beloved New York from San Francisco, she chose to take her time and make the trip on her Vespa. When she reached Wyoming, Shreve was captivated by the red dirt, the Bighorn Mountains, and the wide-open spaces. Unable to shake the spell of the “cowboy state,” she soon establish herself trading her New York City apartment for a house in Ten Sleep, Wyoming — population 300.
Shreve threw away her cell phone and took to the rules of the land, adjusting to a lifestyle that was a near antithesis to that of the urban jungle. Time is of a different essence, scenery is both livelihood and enemy, deer and coyote mark the dawn and dusk. After she met a local cowboy by chance on the side of the road, first a friendship and then a romance blossomed between them.
When Shreve was unexpectedly open with a ten-day-ancient coyote pup whose parents had been shot for killing sheep, she had a choice to make. Despite her reservations and the terror of her tomcat Eli, Shreve chose to do the unthinkable — to raise the coyote pup she came to call Charlie in her 12 12-foot log cabin.
In arresting prose and illuminated with Shreve’s breathtaking photography, The Daily Coyote is at once Shreve’s month-by-month exploration of Charlie’s first year and a meditation on the scenery of wildness versus domestication, of scenery versus nurture, and of forgiveness, loyalty, and like in all its forms.
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First of all, I establish the writing brilliant and the photography truly stunning.
What bothered me was the plot of the tale: Girl meets nice boy (Mike) who cares about her, lets her be herself, doesn’t try to control her. Girl meets terrible boy (coyote), ditches nice boy for him.
Shreve is permanently trying to change herself to make life simpler for the coyote. She turns her own life upside down to accomodate him. He has a violent streak, but when he bites her (read: beats her up) she permanently forgives him and feels that it’s because of something she is doing incorrect. She has to be the one to change. She has to become more sensitive to his needs. Haven’t we all seen this tale before? If Charlie was a guy, no one would be writing all these glowing reviews. They would be adage she needed to go to a battered women’s shelter before it was too late.
I’m hoping that Shreve will write a sequel in which she comes to the realization that she is in a classic abusive relationship. She has agreed up her life, her friends and a wonderful boyfriend for a handsome cad with treacherous tendencies. I’m not criticizing the coyote – he’s just being a coyote. I’m criticizing Shreve for falling into the trap so many women fall into. Where is Dr. Laura when we need her?
I want to know a lot more about Shreve’s life – her parents, her childhood, her young adulthood. She drops a few hints which make me judge that there is a fascinating tale to be told. In fact, I would rather hear about her thoughts and her experiences than about the coyote.
Please keep on writing Shreve, but don’t let the coyote run (or ruin) your life!
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I got through about the first 40 pages, and just finally had to stop. I’ll be honest: I am an animal rights liberal, and although I know that animals kill additional animals, that it is scenery’s way, etc., I was NOT prepared for the descriptions in this book. Yes, some of the pictures are gorgeous(not too fond of the ones showing Charlie with an entire leg in his mouth). Like another reviewer said, this is a like tale. Which brings me to point #2:
I couldn’t delight in the like tale, mainly because I could not tell to the leader on any level. I would never date a man who kills animals for a living. Again, that is my personal code of ethics, and everyone has the right to choose. I really wanted to delight in this book, and was looking forwards to reading it, but the killings were just too much.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Very simple transaction. Product was shipped and received before long after order was placed. Item was in the condition advertised.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This is a book of unexpected contrasts. The New York girl moves to Wyoming; she wants to be alone but craves company; she wants no responsibilities but takes on a cat and a coyote pup. And her boyfriend — whom she sorta likes but doesn’t want to commit — shoots coyotes for a living for the Dept of Agriculture (umm, that’s where she got the pup).
The writing is entertaining and fluid, though to some extent fluff-headed. Her tales of raising her animals make you want to slap her for her lack of responsibility — and when her coyote Charlie finally turns on her late in the book you marvel what took him so long. She’d allowed him to relieve himself indoors, run roughshod over her and her cabin, growl at her, chew on her personal effects, and generally do anything he wants… because HE’S SO CUTE. Criminy, the first clue should have been that Charlie respected the cat more than her!
Stockton runs a website devoted to pictures of her charges, and you can subscribe to receive new pics daily (hence “daily coyote,” get it?) The pictures aren’t anything special but the emotion is genuine. “Follow my twitters” she coos, and babbles over every cute go they make. I can know Stockton’s need for companionship in the desert, and her need to generate some income in a town with no jobs, but she’s not the only one who’s ever taken cute photos and building a living with them seems, well, lucky for her. In the accompanying text (book or website) she goes on-and-on psychoanalyzing Charlie and anthropomorphizing him openly, which starts out endearing but by the time Charlie turns on her you’d like to gnaw on her a bit yourself.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Shreve Stockton’s, The Daily Coyote, was an appealing audio book ( I also had the printed version from the library for the incredible photographs). Shreve Stockton tells the tale of she finished up falling in like with a tiny town of 300 in Wyoming, when she really proposed to drive a scooter all the way from San Francisco to New York City.
In Wyoming, Shreve became romantically involved with a cowboy/government trapper whose job was to protect livestock by killing off the coyote population. When he finds an orphaned coyote pup in a den he just smoked out, he gives it to Shreve, and she decides to try and domesticate it. She names the coyote Charlie, and she soon realizes she has traded in her independence when she takes on this task of raising the young pup, and introducing Charlie, the coyote to her cat Eli.
The photos in this book are incredible, especially the ones of Charlie. It seemed a small surprising to me that a city girl like Shreve, could end up living in a rural cabin with no running water, no heat and no inside plumbing.
Although I did delight in this audio book, something about this book did not settle well with me. The extermination of the coyote population was a small upsetting to me, but then again being the animal lover that I am, I’m opposed to deer hunting as well.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5