It's the holiday season, how about a heart warming story? This one about a writer/ photographer who ends up caring for an orphaned coyote in Wyoming, where she lives in a one room cabin by herself, Charlie (the coyote), and a tomcat named Eli. In her words:

Two years ago, I had plans to move from San Francisco back to New York City - plans that were derailed when I rode through Wyoming and fell in love with this place. I went on to New York, but a month later turned around, returned to Wyoming, and moved to the area where I had only spent one day.

Charlie is a wild-born coyote who was unexpectedly delivered to my doorstep this past April after both his parents were shot for killing sheep. Whatever reservations I had about raising a wild animal simply didn't matter - couldn't matter - when I realized his survival, at least in the short term, depended on me.

Visit her site at the Daily Coyote.