At lunch today, Brindy took off for the porch and began growling. Knowing that anything that made her leave the prospect of food must be pretty important, I went out to see what was there. She was very upset: hackles raised, prancing around, and whining. I figured it could only be coyotes and, sure enough, there were two roaming around right under our balcony. Here are the two of them crossing the road:
And here are the two of them in more camouflaged settings:
The most surprising thing about this was Brindy’s reaction. While we have very, very occasionally heard her emit a single bark before, this situation had her so upset that she actually put together 6 or 8 barks in a row. This is literally a heretofore unheard of reaction from her. Those barks today, were more than we have ever heard from her in total since we got her in 2013.
We’re just fortunate that Brindy had no way to get any where near those coyotes, of course. They’d tear her apart in no time.
The other thing I find surprising is that Brindy has such a visceral disliking for the coyotes. Entirely different reaction than to other dogs or people.
Tuples and Attributes 