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When Pets Attack!
Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets!
Coyotes and wolves may look like the neighbor's dogs, but don't be fooled. They're wild animals and are ruled by instinct. This book explains how dogs were domesticated over hundreds of years to be suitable companions for people. Readers come to know the differences between coyotes, wolves, and man's best friend. Real-life canine encounters underscore the issues and offer a persuasive viewpoint about the practice of keeping wild animals as pets.
34 pages, ebook
First published August 1, 2013
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Barbara M. Linde
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November 10, 2025
Barbara M. Linde, her 2013 non fiction picture book Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets! is part of a six volume series, with each of the tomes featuring wild animals that are not pets and should therefore also never be raised or kept as pets even though and unfortunately they still often are (with the other five volumes featuring alligators, chimpanzees and monkeys, ostriches, snakes and big cats such as lions, tigers, cheetahs etc.). And no, I have thus far only read Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets but I am definitely interested enough to consider the other instalments, provided they are also like Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets available on Open Library.
Now with regard to the general information on coyotes and wolves Linde provides in and throughout Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets, her text is solidly researched and is penned in a manner that is both comparative and contrastive and is also presented in a manner that is educational but thankfully never too complicated for an intended audience of eight to ten or eleven year old readers and/or listeners, with Barbara M. Linde showing with Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets a really good general introduction to coyotes and wolves and post this then clearly demonstrating pretty much all encompassingly and specifically why coyotes and wolves do not make good pets, that even though coyotes and wolves are closely related to domestic dogs and of course vice versa (and with domestic dogs in fact having been bred from wolves millennia ago), wolves and coyotes are nevertheless wild animals and can thus easily become dangerous if or rather when they are taken from the wild and raised as domestic companion animals (that we need to learn how to coexist with wolves and coyotes but that this does not mean and should not ever mean having them in our houses, feeding them etc.).
And yes, Linde's words combined with photographs, maps, a glossary, a bibliography (and the roles both positive and negative coyotes and wolves have played in folklore and mythology also briefly being mentioned), this all and indeed makes Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets very very good and that I would in fact be considering a solidly four star rating but for two textual issues that force me to lower my rating for Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets from four to a high three stars (but that Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets is still to be recommended).
For one, I do wish Barbara M. Linde would point out in Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets that with regard to wolf and coyote attacks, the most dangerous and actually especially with wolves also the most common attacks on humans often seem to come from hybrid animals, often seem to come from wolf and domestic dog mixtures and from coyote and domestic dog mixtures, mostly because these animals are still wild but also have no fear of humans genetically inherited from domestic dogs (which have been bred for thousands of years to not fear and to be attracted to humans). And for two (and for me much much much more problematically, as this is actually erroneous), Linde mentioning in Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets that current domestic dog breeds cannot be traced back all that long, while this is the case for some breeds, there are also many breeds (such as the Saluki, the Basenji, the Chow and in fact many more) where their lineage can actually be traced back thousands of years (and that Barbara M. Linde claiming in Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets that there are no dog breeds that go back over a thousand years, this is simply wrong and also an error which kind of makes me cringe more than a bit).
Now with regard to the general information on coyotes and wolves Linde provides in and throughout Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets, her text is solidly researched and is penned in a manner that is both comparative and contrastive and is also presented in a manner that is educational but thankfully never too complicated for an intended audience of eight to ten or eleven year old readers and/or listeners, with Barbara M. Linde showing with Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets a really good general introduction to coyotes and wolves and post this then clearly demonstrating pretty much all encompassingly and specifically why coyotes and wolves do not make good pets, that even though coyotes and wolves are closely related to domestic dogs and of course vice versa (and with domestic dogs in fact having been bred from wolves millennia ago), wolves and coyotes are nevertheless wild animals and can thus easily become dangerous if or rather when they are taken from the wild and raised as domestic companion animals (that we need to learn how to coexist with wolves and coyotes but that this does not mean and should not ever mean having them in our houses, feeding them etc.).
And yes, Linde's words combined with photographs, maps, a glossary, a bibliography (and the roles both positive and negative coyotes and wolves have played in folklore and mythology also briefly being mentioned), this all and indeed makes Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets very very good and that I would in fact be considering a solidly four star rating but for two textual issues that force me to lower my rating for Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets from four to a high three stars (but that Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets is still to be recommended).
For one, I do wish Barbara M. Linde would point out in Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets that with regard to wolf and coyote attacks, the most dangerous and actually especially with wolves also the most common attacks on humans often seem to come from hybrid animals, often seem to come from wolf and domestic dog mixtures and from coyote and domestic dog mixtures, mostly because these animals are still wild but also have no fear of humans genetically inherited from domestic dogs (which have been bred for thousands of years to not fear and to be attracted to humans). And for two (and for me much much much more problematically, as this is actually erroneous), Linde mentioning in Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets that current domestic dog breeds cannot be traced back all that long, while this is the case for some breeds, there are also many breeds (such as the Saluki, the Basenji, the Chow and in fact many more) where their lineage can actually be traced back thousands of years (and that Barbara M. Linde claiming in Coyotes and Wolves Are Not Pets that there are no dog breeds that go back over a thousand years, this is simply wrong and also an error which kind of makes me cringe more than a bit).
February 6, 2022
Scientifically accurate information and illustrations. Not to mention useful tips.
They certainly do not make good pets. Instead, adopt a domestic dog from a shelter or rescue group.
They certainly do not make good pets. Instead, adopt a domestic dog from a shelter or rescue group.
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