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Title details for The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton - Available

The Daily Coyote

A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming

by Shreve Stockton
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.

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  • Release date

    November 25, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781400129973
      • File size: 226805 KB
      • Duration: 07:52:30

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Cassandra Campbell manages the difficult task of voicing the concept of cognitive dissonance as she narrates Stockton's simultaneous love affairs with a pet coyote, "Charlie," and a rancher who kills coyotes for a living. Animal lovers will be befuddled by Stockton's tale. It's simultaneously a cuddly diary about a coyote pup and a glowing endorsement of ranching culture's wholesale slaughter of coyotes. Campbell voices Stockton's popular blog-turned-book with a detached Western romanticization that reflects the author's inability to extend her love and admiration for Charlie to the wild coyotes that are gassed, trapped, and shot daily by her lover. While Stockton's blog succeeds online, THE DAILY COYOTE doesn't translate well into a full-length audiobook, partly due to the absence of Stockton's cute photographs of Charlie. J.T. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 27, 2008
      This moving account of writer/photographer Stockton’s first year with her pet coyote, Charlie, expands on her popular blog, the Daily Coyote, but newcomers and the author’s many fans will find that this memoir offers a complete—if not yet completed—story about love and life in a small Wyoming town. On a cross-country move from San Francisco to New York City in 2005, Stockton fell in love with the beauty of Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains and decided to settle there. She found new roots and a new boyfriend, a government trapper whose job was to protect livestock by killing coyotes. When he finds an orphaned coyote pup, barely 10 days old, he gives it to Stockton, beginning an adventure that moves human and animal from a blissful open affection (the author’s photos of baby Charlie are as adorable as they are beautifully composed) through a period of reconsideration after Charlie bites her to a breakthrough realization that Charlie needed a much more structured “alpha” attitude from his owner. Stockton’s journey of sharing her life with a wild animal and providing training while respecting Charlie’s unique nature makes for a fascinating and rewarding read.

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  • English

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