I wish I could say that I’ve been hearing the cute and funny Wiley coyote from the infamous Bugs Bunny cartoon, but instead I’ve been woken up by the eery howls of a pack of coyotes nearby for the past few nights. I’ve never heard them so close, they seem like they are staring my sheep in the eyes on the other side of the fence.

When something wakes me from my beauty sleep, like my dog barking at a bunch of coyotes, and the coyotes howling back, I take it personally. This is war, coyotes! Don’t even think of laying one paw on my sheep!

I need that sheep dog from the Bugs Bunny cartoon, who looked so calm and dopey with his hair all in his eyes, but in reality he was a vicious sheep keeper who could muscle down any coyote! What was his name?