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Old 09-07-2015, 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by kittygilchrist View Post
How much strength and courage your posts have given me--like water in a dry land. I am going back to joyous living and forget this as much as possible and fast totv until it is time for a next step.

I need grace to sit in my lanai looking at the lake and the oaks, clouds, and nuances of sunlight on the mirrored water, Entertained by moss tossing in the wind, and practice letting the beauty take me and time fade the image of the canine charging up the hill. Not meaning to be so poetic, but it really is that beautiful.

Return to your rest, oh my soul.
Peace,
Kitty
FWC - Land Mammals - Coyote

Sorry all this has you down, kittygilchrist.

From the linked article it looks like it is the "under 55" coyotes so to speak who have been roaming out of their pack's territory. I do think this will continue to be a problem in those neighborhoods with ongoing development here in the Villages. I never saw a coyote in Palm Harbor, FL the nine years we were there. Lots of deer, alligators, armadillos, and other wildlife but no coyotes. I have seen with my own eyes only three coyotes here in the Villages since we moved here to Lynnhaven in June 2005. Other neighbors have had their own sightings and something left a half eaten rabbit on one of my neighbor's front door welcome mat. This was only a year or a little more ago. They thought it had been a coyote. Something must have spooked it while it was eating.