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jeanetterenee 's review for:
The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming
by Shreve Stockton
The greatest thing about this book is the photos. Charlie is the star of the show, and Shreve has captured him in all of his moods and stages of development. She has a degree in photography, and the pictures are delightful.
It would be easy enough to nitpick about the flaws in this book, but I won't do it because it seems like too much of a cheap shot. The author never intended to write a book. She was approached by publishers and she gamely stepped up to the challenge, with a six-month deadline. I doubt I could have done as well.
I was surprised that she didn't definitively establish herself as the alpha from day one with Charlie. I sort of thought everyone knew that, but then she did say she'd never had a dog before. She ended up doing a lot of remedial work to deal with some serious and potentially dangerous behavioral and aggression problems when Charlie got to be about nine months old. He certainly showed that he was still a wild animal.
I got a kick out of the way her cat Eli was really the king of the castle. He's the true alpha, over both Shreve and Charlie. Even when Charlie started becoming aggressive, he was always totally obsequious toward the cat. Funny!
It would be easy enough to nitpick about the flaws in this book, but I won't do it because it seems like too much of a cheap shot. The author never intended to write a book. She was approached by publishers and she gamely stepped up to the challenge, with a six-month deadline. I doubt I could have done as well.
I was surprised that she didn't definitively establish herself as the alpha from day one with Charlie. I sort of thought everyone knew that, but then she did say she'd never had a dog before. She ended up doing a lot of remedial work to deal with some serious and potentially dangerous behavioral and aggression problems when Charlie got to be about nine months old. He certainly showed that he was still a wild animal.
I got a kick out of the way her cat Eli was really the king of the castle. He's the true alpha, over both Shreve and Charlie. Even when Charlie started becoming aggressive, he was always totally obsequious toward the cat. Funny!