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Coyote Queller

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎04-06-2018 07:12 AM

It happened again.

      At 1:30am a pack of coyotes were yipping so loudly they woke me and surely no one else could sleep through it. This has happened before a couple times a year.

      It's normally very quiet here at night.

      I went to Hoggie's cat door which is about chest height.

I pushed the hard plastic flap outward and yelled HEY! Very short like the crack of a rifle in the silence.  Now, I have a loud speaking voice anyway,  but, when I PROJECT, it's quite EXCEPTIONAL.

I let out the HEY! to startle them, and then I listened.

Their yipping had dropped to about 30% .

I then slammed that cat door to make them think I was coming out.

THEY COMPLETELY SHUT UP.

So, what have you learned?

Coyotes are cowards when confronted by the voice of Hoggie's Papa?

Well, Smoking Is A Coward Too

It Cannot Stand Up To You

Cigarettes Travel In Packs

Just Stop It!

Coyote Howling & Yipping Sounds From Feet Away - YouTube 

I'm going back to bed now. 

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About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.