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    The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming
    The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming
    The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming
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    The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming

    Written by Shreve Stockton

    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

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    When city girl Shreve Stockton set out to ride her Vespa from San Francisco to New York, she never imagined she would end up making a log cabin in Wyoming her home, falling in love with a trapper, and working as a ranch hand. She also could not have predicted adopting Charlie, an orphaned coyote pup. In a world where coyotes are hunted as killers, Stockton and Charlie have faced challenges-as well as joys-throughout their first year. Operating Instructions meets Marley and Me in this charming life-lesson book about life, love, and the bond between humans and nature.

    The Daily Coyote was inspired by Stockton's blog of the same name. Wildly popular and praised by Rosie O'Donnell, James Wolcott of Vanity Fair, and the Los Angeles Times, the site receives over a million hits per month and was nominated for a 2007 Weblog of the Year Award only a month after its inception. Numerous media outlets, from People to NPR, can't wait to feature Stockton and Charlie.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 25, 2008
    ISBN9781400179978
    Author

    Shreve Stockton

    Shreve Stockton is a writer and photographer currently living in Wyoming. She received her bachelor's degree in photography in 2001 from Brooks Institute of Photography. She is the author of a cookbook, Eating Gluten Free, and of two weblogs, Vespa Vagabond and The Daily Coyote.

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    • 5/5
      As I follow The Daily Coyote blog, this book was a must read for me. Shreve is a fasinating person and her devotion to Charlie the coyote is amazing. It was so interesting to read about the progression of her relationship with Charlie from pup to full grown coyote.I love the way she writes, with such honesty and deep thought.I would recommend this book highly, whether you love animals or not!
    • 5/5
      A fantastic book by a wonderful writer about her move to Wyoming, her adoption of a coyote pup, and her success at letting go of the need for control over nature and other people. I loved it.
    • 4/5
      Shreve Stockton describes beautifully the antics and behavior of Charlie the coyote, her cat Eli, and the dogs they also spend time with. It's really a delight to read. Beyond this she is writing about her quest for what I would describe as living with strength and integrity, driven both by her idealistic nature and by the challenge of raising this wild animal. I see in her a wonderful earnest clarity we have access to particularly when we are young and I enjoyed this visit in Wyoming with her.
    • 5/5
      What an incredible story...Shreve takes us through the history she's shared with Charlie, a taboo coyote companion in a small town plagued with coyote attacks. Charlie's story and life with Shreve is nothing if not trying and heartwarming at once.
    • 4/5
      I bought this book for a friend's Christmas present, but since we still have not been able to visit each other it shall sit on my shelf a while longer, so, why not! (She won't mind.)I am giving this book one whole extra star just for wish-fulfillment appreciation. I really do appreciate it. I am also recommending that everyone who lives or has lived in New York City read the first chapter or two of this book. It's not that the rest of it isn't interesting too, but I was so surprised by the setup to the main subject of the book. The way she describes her prior life in NYC, deciding to leave it for its opposite on a whim, and what changes it makes to a person, is just really accurate. You can tell she really has been one of us, and has found the other side of the coin that we often wonder about. Her willingness to strike out and perform tasks and jobs and bonds she's never been near before is as much a perfect wish-fulfillment story as when you are having the kind of day where you are saying, "I hate everything, I am going to go live in a cabin with a coyote." (That is all of us, right? We can admit it.)So you get a little memoir-type picture of who she is and what she's caring about -- the parts about her relationship aren't necessarily riveting, but it's nice knowing what means something to her in the context of all this. The coyote stuff! Because mostly, there's a bunch of stories about what it is like to have a coyote puppy, what she improvises to make this part of her life, and why she loves it and makes it work. I was surprised and interested that this also isn't just wish-fulfillment; the parts about dealing with unexpected aggression and coyote communication errors are intense. (To prove, in fact, we don't all necessarily want this to really happen. Well kind of.)Some parts of the narrative are dull -- it is boring to me to read a book by a blogger who then has to talk about how they started the blog and found an audience. I guess they're obligated to explain this part of the story, but obviously it's an unsurprising part. Some other parts were unexpectedly strong, though -- in characterizing her setting, it made an impact to learn some of the threads of what it actually meant, in her new environment and society, to accept an animal for a pet that your neighbors expect you to want to kill. The familiarity of animals like coyotes in the places where they actually are makes them an unpopular pest; they are not romanticized when they are actually messing up your life. So her connection both to the wild animal and the meaning of the new place is a good theme, part of the theme in the beginning about her move, crossing boundaries.It can be nice to see idealism work once in a while.
    • 4/5
      It is very hard to believe that anyone would drive their Vespa across the country, find a house sight unseen, buy a truck to go back across country and retrieve their belongings, and adopt an orphaned coyote pup. The author did them all! It would be very interesting to be Stockton's friend as I am sure her life is never boring. The pictures are Wonderful. Charlie's story will touch your heart. The author does not imply that raising a coyote is easy or that anyone can do it. She makes it clear that it is hard, and at times painful. It doesn't change my opinion. I would still shoot a coyote. I did enjoy the story and as I said the pictures are Beautiful!
    • 5/5
      When 32 yr old NYC native Shreve Stockton boldly decides to move to Ten Sleep, Wyoming, (population 600), she has no idea what is in store for her. Through her book, we follow her remarkable metamorphosis from a strong, but undisciplined woman, to a woman who starts living on the marrow of life. What transforms her way of life is that she is given, and accepts, the responsibility of caring for and nurturing a 10 week old coyote pup who would have died if she had not taken the challenge. Stockton's voice is fresh, but more importantly, HONEST. She imbues the qualities that she so admires in the open, pristine, wild Wyoming range.I was reminded of Emerson ("To thine own self be true.") and of Thoreau (his experiment at Walden). Most of all, I was so impressed by Shreve Stockton and Charlie's grand adventure. (Her photographs are exquisite, as well.) To receive a daily photo of Charlie, google THE DAILY COYOTE and purchase a 1 month-6 month subscription. )
    • 4/5
      Eine wahre Geschichte über einen Kojoten als Hausgenossen
    • 4/5
      A thought-provoking glimpse of the author's year raising a coyote pup, with gorgeous photos throughout.
    • 4/5
      When Shreve Stockton decided to ride her Vespa from San Francisco to New York she figured she'd have one last wild adventure before settling down in New York. Instead, she fell in love with Wyoming and shocked her family and friends by moving to a town of 300 people in the middle of nowhere. The Daily Coyote is about Shreve's process of learning how to be true to herself, whether that comes through in raising the coyote, in her relationship with Mike (a cowboy who kills coyotes for a living), or in finding a career. Of course Charlie (the coyote) is the star of the book and he has an uncanny way of making the people around him re-examine their priorities.I really enjoyed this book despite the reservations I had in the beginning about a coyote being raised as a pet. I was very impressed with Shreve's willingness to tackle the tough issues. She openly shares with the reader the moral struggles she has grappled with and how she reached her conclusions. Charlie is a delightful character throughout adding plenty of humor and love to the story. His relationship with Eli the tomcat is especially entertaining!What really makes the book special are the many gorgeous photographs. Pictures of both the amazing Wyoming landscape and of Charlie at every age give the reader the feeling of being there to experience the desolation, wildness, and gloriousness of Shreve's experience.
    • 4/5
      Now that these critters are in metropolitan southern cities this book is increasingly relevant.
    • 4/5
      Shreve Stockton, a photographer, author, and city girl, falls in love with rural Wyoming while traveling cross country. She moves to a tiny Wyoming town, lives in a little ramshackle cabin, and begins dating a rancher who also hunts and kills coyotes for the government. He shows up one day with a coyote cub for her, and Shreve keeps it, thereby changing her life quite a bit. The details of her life so far with the coyote, Charley, are fascinating. The author has a blog, The Daily Coyote, for readers who want more gorgeous photos of Charley. Great animal memoir read.
    • 5/5
      Shreve Stockton is a strong-willed, determined non-conformist who loves rural life in the wide open spaces of Wyoming. She is a survivor and a wise young woman. In her book, [The Daily Coyote], Stockton shares with us an often painfully honest journey inside her heart and mind on a quest to find a life in balance. This adventure finds her struggling with dreams of personal freedom, beliefs and values not always shared by others, a desire to embrace the love of a man and coyote, what can be controlled, and bottom line... uncompromising reality. The fun part of this book is the story of how Stockton raises a new-born coyote, Charlie, and how the two of them build a loving, respectful relationship. There are so many joyful days and nights together. They work hard; they play hard. The beauty of Wyoming, human and animal relationships, and a growing wild pup are shared in well written descriptions and wonderful expressive photography. I had to add a half star in my rating because of the many impressive pictures in this book. If you can't read the book, at least look at the pictures!There are tense moments of dealing with the wild nature of Charlie as well as protecting him from the surrounding populace that wants to kill all coyotes to protect their livestock. I had a very hard time, personally, with Mike's (a romantic interest)livelihood of killing coyotes and their young. His goal was to do it with skill - causing less pain and disruption in the natural order - rather than allow a free-for-all attitude of irresponsibility found in many hunters. I understand the logic, but I still struggle with this. Although hunting is discussed with sensitivity, I imagine other readers will cringe or find it downright upsetting, too. I love the straight forward approach in this book. Examining her own life, the author understands that each person has their own opinions and life experiences. As Stockton encounters judgemental views about her chosen lifestyle raising a wild coyote, she comments in her book... "It's so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else's reality than they do, and such a waste of time." I agree and I recommend this book.
    • 4/5
      Shreve Stockton, writer-photographer, left SanFrancisco and by Vespar was journeying to her "beloved"New York.

      She was entranced by Bighorn Mountain, red dirt and wide open spaces.
      After a brief time in New York, she was drawn back to Wyoming, set aside urban living and took a house in Ten Sleep, Wyoming -- population 300.

      As our story unfolds, Shreve has accepted a 10 day old coyote pup. (soon to be called Charlie)

      The Daily Coyote is born as Shreve shares online, on a daily basis, life reflections and photography of Charlie's first year.

      ★ ★ ★ ★