Watching the night’s wildlife cam footage had me on edge the moment Coyote appeared. I’ve known Mama Raccoon for years—she’s been bringing her kits to the Wild Reiki Spa for at least four seasons. Notch Ear and the Raccoon Boys are likely her grown offspring from past years. But time has taken its toll. Mama now has only one good eye, half an ear, and the stiff movements of age, perhaps arthritis. One of the Raccoon Boys limps badly, holding up an injured rear leg. Both are vulnerable—and both are at risk if Coyote closes in. Meanwhile, Opossum has become a new but steady visitor, and Rabbit still slips through now and then, ever wary.

I care deeply for them all, and I don’t want to see any of them fall. Yet I also respect the balance Coyote brings. Predators play their role: culling the weak, the old, the injured, the unwary. Each night feels like another round in a deadly game of hide-and-seek—and it grows more likely that one evening someone will not return to the Wild Reiki Spa.

Besides allowing me to see wildlife, the cam acts as a warning system for my urban West Seattle neighbors, encouraging them to keep their cats inside and to be careful when walking small or elderly dogs at twilight, night, and early morning. Here are some tips on how to co-exist peacefully with coyotes.

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A WILD WAY TO HEAL
Rose De Dan, Wild Reiki and Shamanic Healing LLC is an animal communicator, Reiki Master Teacher, shamanic energy healer, and author of Tails of a Healer: Animals, Reiki and Shamanism and Out of the Darkness and Other Animal Tails. Her classes, sessions, and ceremonial work are inspired by wild and domestic animals who have issued a call to action for personal and global healing.