"Coyotes and Dogs" - by John R. Erickson

    Years ago, I was riding a pasture up in Beaver County, Oklahoma. Our ranch mutts, Foxie and Pooch, went along with me, as they usually did, following along behind my horse and doing the usual dog-things.

    All at once I noticed something odd. We were passing through some tall sagebrush. The dogs were jumping up into the air and looking back towards the country we had just crossed. I had never seen them do that before.

    The next thing I knew, the dogs wer...