Coyotes

Coyotes have been a huge part of our lives the past 2 months or so.  It has gotten to a comical point (for Mike and I at least) and we are doing our best to eradicate the coyote infestation in our Plano home. 

It all began with the movie, Barnyard.  If your familiar with the movie you then know that the coyotes are the “bad guys” of the movie.  They torment the chickens and attack the cows.  This happened to be a favorite movie of Thomas’ for some time, even thought Mike and I would fast forward thought the scary parts. 

Then we moved to Plano and there are again coyotes in our area, much like many urban areas, and at our previous home in Denver.  I was making my morning coffee and looked out the window and their was a coyote walking down the sidewalk.  I quickly ran out the front door as it was also the same time that kids start walking to school and wanted to both make sure I saw a coyote and also make sure that the neighborhood kids were ok.   I talked to our neighbor quick and she said with little ears around something along the lines of “my kids are big enough to be ok, yours are little.”  Pretty sure that is when Thomas’ mind started running wild. 

It turned into not running from the “bad guys” but running and hiding from the coyotes.  Elin quickly learned that these “coyotes” are super bad things to be feared and under no circumstances was she to mess with them.  She is down right terrified of “coyotes.” 

Mike and I are certain that what Elin believes is a coyote and what a coyote actually is are two very different things.  After many instances where the thought of coyotes left Elin paralyzed in fear, hysterically crying and with an accident or two out of sheer terror, we decided that we must end the “coyotes” that have take over our lives.  We have done our best to give both the kiddos the magical power to “poof” or “blast” away the coyotes.  We have also talked and read about what coyotes actually are and we are slowly making progress.  It is however a little sad as it was sooo darn cute when you would hear Elin say “shhh coyote,” “hide coyote,” or just plain “COYOTE!”  Thomas is much less afraid of them than she is and is comfortable with his skills to end the coyote with his sword, gun, or poof powers.

The last picture is Elin’s attempt at protection from the coyotes. 

Regardless, in a few weeks we hope the extermination is complete and we will have 2 skilled coyote hunters ready to be hired out if your in need of coyote control.