Rosie coyote - great coyote teaching story by Los Angeles Animal Rehabilitator Skip Haynes

Skip is an animal rehab specialist living in Los Angeles and he shares his book and story below on ROSIE, THE COYOTE that brought the famous Los Angeles neighborhood of Laurel Canyon(the birthing neighborhood for all of the great Country rock bands of the 60's--Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Burrito's Poco, etc, etc) that came together to aid an injured coyote...............read on folks!

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From: Skip <animalco@pacbell.net>
Date: Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 8:42 AM
Subject: Rosie coyote - great coyote teaching story
To: rick.meril@gmail.com

Hi Rick' 

My name is Skip Haynes and I live in Los Angeles. As a fellow coyote lover and rehabber I thought you you might find this interesting and if you do, pass it along.  It was quite an experience and learning process for me - other people might learn from also..

all the best and keep up the good work

Skip Haynes

Waiting For Rosie – new book telling the powerful story of a small, sick coyote's journey that brought a community together.

This new book and companion website by author, musician and animal activist Skip Haynes tell the compelling story of the months long effort to successfully track, capture and rehabilitate a small coyote that appeared suddenly in their Laurel Canyon neighborhood.

It involves a crew of volunteers that rival M.A.S.H., three animal communicators, a world renown vet and a coyote that was smarter than all of them, who brought their community together in a positive way that never could've been imagined.

"Our entire community learned invaluable lessons from Rosie. I didn't write the story, I just wrote the words to pass on those lessons and possibly change a few perceptions about how we interact with the animals we live with in the urban interface. Rosie's story is a great teacher about how to deal with our environment in a real and positive manner, something that becomes more necessary with each passing day as evidenced by the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.

Meeting Rosie turned us into advocates for coyotes, which in turn made us advocates for all animals and our environment. It's a great against all odds story that will make you smile and teach you valuable lessons at the same time."

Rosie's is the story of one animal uniting a community and teaching it how to learn to live with the wildlife rather than destroying it. Other communities can learn how to do the same.

The website http://www.rosiecoyote.com/, is the first step in an informational campaign to counter the often negative and misleading information on wildlife. Coyotes, like sharks, are completely misunderstood and misrepresented, yet a very necessary part of our ecosystem, as are all animals – including us.

Rosie's story has appeared in Steve Lopez's column in the L.A. Times http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez17-2010jan17,0,2462847,full.column

This is the video/song of "Coyote Girl" – so you can see Rosie for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWvC1TZ6u_Q

One of the earliest videos of Rosiehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi7JS9A8r0E

Waiting For Rosie $14.95 + S&H is available at http://www.rosiecoyote.com/ The first three songs of a companion CD "Waiting For Rosie" are also available for digital download. The entire CD will be released in July 2010. All profits are donated to the wildlife rehabilitation organizations listed on the website.

For a review copy, mp3s, interviews or more information, please contact:
Skip Haynes
323.822.1764
skip@rosiecoyote.com