July 21, 2018 Urban Coyotes

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Coyotes calls out
As they run through the city.
Owning the grey dawn.
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As the coyotes return to the land and enter our city, a Santa Barbara neighborhood post site called ‘NextDoor’ has noted many are concerned with coyote management. Some who post on the neighborhood site recognize that coyote is family and it is best if we learn to get along. Some just want to get rid of all coyote from their neighborhood. I am of the thought, it is best to find ways to co-exist as the four-leggeds belong here as much as the two-leggeds.
Isn’t this how humans are with other humans also. We run the gamut as to how we seek to ‘manage’ choices, wherein we feel we are rubbing one another the wrong way.
Seeking to understand how to best live with my four-legged neighbors, the coyote, I found a video which was most helpful. Interesting, how many of the management options could be applied to our world today and how the two-leggeds can better get along with other two-leggeds also.
Here as some of the take-aways I gleaned from the video juxtaposed to concepts of humans getting along with other humans:
🐕 Coyotes were here first- we don’t know if this is true - - and this may not even be the key issue / question. Reality is, we are all here now so let us figure out how to peacefully co-exist. Humans and coyotes have always traveled the earth when their home becomes unsafe or unable to sustain them. This is what humans do. This is what coyote does. This is what you would do too, if your home was no longer a good environment for you or your family and you were unable to figure out how to remedy the situation.
🐕 When a coyote is in our neighborhood and we are nonresponsive it teaches the coyote, it is ok to be with you and to do whatever they want as you are not letting them know if something is not ok, so do yell and raise and wave your arms to scare them away from places with small children playing etc. - - another way to say this is ‘It is okay to bark – you don’t have to bite.’ Respectfully, I feel that those in the USA today who are separating parents and children (families who have run here for safety!) is 'biting' and as such is unacceptable and lacking in human decency. This is the anti-thesis of friendly co-existence.
🐕 When you see the coyote in the wild and he is just ‘being a coyote’ and not so close as to be a danger to you leave him be - - this transposed human to human, I can agree with so long as other humans are in their own country and not causing harm we need to just let them be. Humanitarian and environmental issues may need the good human being to step in and up just as we would step in if the coyote were unbalancing his natural world also.
🐕 You cannot just get rid of a coyote. They are territorial, and another will just come in and take the spot vacated. - - When we see seek to make change, wisdom would dictate that it be more than just a knee jerk reaction. Consider choices and ramifications of choices. Then when considered, act with focused and loving determination.
🐕 If you have a well-behaved coyote in an urban environment, leave it there, otherwise it will just be replaced by another who may not be such a good neighbor. - - don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Consider consequences of choices
🐕 The coyotes natural time to be out on the land is at dawn and again at dusk. Humans and human companions (dogs, cats, etc.) get the day light hours - - Sometimes, humans getting along is just a matter of separate but equal. As an example, one may choose to be atheist, one a Christian, one a Hindu, etc. - each one gets his/her time and place and we respect and honor the other’s cultural and religious morays. Easy peasy.

With respect for coyote and all who share this earth walk with me: four-legged, two-legged, creepy crawlies, winged ones, standing tall and tiny green ones, slithering through the grass ones, moving through the water ones and winged ones who take to the air.

With respect for races, cultures and spiritual paths of the humans. 

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"...Peace is not something that you and I or a few great souls can create at once, by command. Even a million Christs or Krishnas could not do it. Try as he would, Lord Krishna could not prevent the great war between the Pandavas and Kauravas, which is described in the Mahabharata. All humanity has to become Christlike to bring peace on earth. When each one of us shapes his life according to the wisdom and example of a Christ, a Krishna, a Buddha, we can have peace here; not before. We must start now, with ourselves. We should try to be like the divine ones who have come on earth again and again to show us the way. By our loving each other and keeping our understanding clear, as they taught and exemplified, peace can come..."
"...I believe that if every citizen in the world is taught to commune with God (not merely to know Him intellectually), then peace can reign; not before..."
Paramahansa Yogananda
The Divine Romance / A World Without Borders

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Here is the video I found which was most helpful in understanding 

the coyote and our interaction with him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjkq_ex0zmw&feature=youtu.be

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photo from the Urban Coyote Initiative. Their mission; Promote scientific knowledge about and coexistence with urban coyotes through exceptional photography and other visual media.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/UrbanCoyoteInitiative/about/?ref=page_internal

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