Shreve Stockton, a photographer, author, and city girl, falls in love with rural Wyoming while traveling cross country. She moves to a tiny Wyoming town, lives in a little ramshackle cabin, and begins dating a rancher who also hunts and kills coyotes for the government. He shows up one day with a coyote cub for her, and Shreve keeps it, thereby changing her life quite a bit. The details of her life so far with the coyote, Charley, are fascinating. The author has a blog, The Daily Coyote, for readers who want more gorgeous photos of Charley. Great animal memoir read. ( )

A fascinating book about a tiny coyote pup unaccountably rescued by the author's boyfriend (a coyote hunter who, after scooping up the pup, proceeds to kill its siblings in their den) and is hand-raised by her. Charlie is an extraordinary character--outrageously happy, playful, intelligent and demanding--as is his "brother," the barn cat Eli. The photographs of them playing and lounging together are priceless. The photographs of the stark landscape around Ten Sleep, with the Big Horns in the distance, are equally compelling. Less impressively drawn are the humans, and too much time is spent on the relationship without much insight as payoff. Stockton doesn't write well about her boyfriend, her recreated dialog is attrocious, and she's more interested in herself than I was. But the photographs are magnificent, and so is the mercurial Charlie. I can't wait to catch up with him on dailycoyote.net. ( )

Wonderful pictures and great descriptions of the location, but overall I didn't care much for the author and I didn't agree with some of her choices. Seemed like she was non-commital with raising Charlie...she wanted him to retain his 'wildness', but yet wanted him to behave as a PET. Regardless, an entertaining story and heartwarming from a sense of how much animals can mean to their 'owners'... ( )

Beautiful photography. This is a book of wildness verses domestication when Shreve locates herself in the Big Horn Mts. of WY and adopts a 10 day old coyote pup. The parents had been shot. She finds a house in Ten Sleep and lives next to a cowboy whose job is shooting coyote because of the farmers not wanting them around their livestock. When the coyote is 8 mos. old, it begins to dislike something of Shreve and tends to bite her on the hand and Shreve is really is disbelief of this.

When Shreve Stockton decided to ride her Vespa from San Francisco to New York she figured she'd have one last wild adventure before settling down in New York. Instead, she fell in love with Wyoming and shocked her family and friends by moving to a town of 300 people in the middle of nowhere. The Daily Coyote is about Shreve's process of learning how to be true to herself, whether that comes through in raising the coyote, in her relationship with Mike (a cowboy who kills coyotes for a living), or in finding a career. Of course Charlie (the coyote) is the star of the book and he has an uncanny way of making the people around him re-examine their priorities.
I really enjoyed this book despite the reservations I had in the beginning about a coyote being raised as a pet. I was very impressed with Shreve's willingness to tackle the tough issues. She openly shares with the reader the moral struggles she has grappled with and how she reached her conclusions. Charlie is a delightful character throughout adding plenty of humor and love to the story. His relationship with Eli the tomcat is especially entertaining!
What really makes the book special are the many gorgeous photographs. Pictures of both the amazing Wyoming landscape and of Charlie at every age give the reader the feeling of being there to experience the desolation, wildness, and gloriousness of Shreve's experience. ( )