My own little horror story.

Ok, so a couple of you might know that I live on a mountain. <br><br>In my neighborhood, there are like, levels cut into the mountain where there is a street and a line of houses on each side.. kind of like stairs. There's a 2 mile road that comes up from the valley where there are no houses, and then the stairs of houses and streets start. I live on the second stair. There is a road that goes up from my house that is not a stair, but just goes up the mountain and then loops around in front of the houses on the third stair. <span style="font-style:italic">This is relevant, I promise.</span><br>So basically, when I look across the street, I'm looking at the houses in front of me's backyards. And then those house's front yards face the top of the mountain....... and many wild animal's habitats.<br><br>Where I live there are: Grizzly and black bears, wolves, elk/moose, and millions of coyotes. <br><br>Anyway I just got back from taking my dog for a walk. (Yes, after midnight. I like walking her at that time because there's no dogs for her to freak out on.) It's cold and snowy and slippery. I'm like 1 minute from my front door and I hear the sound I dread to hear when I'm alone, at night, cold, and ... oh so close .. A pack of hungry, malicious wolves.<br><br>CRAP!<br>I stand still... shaking in my skin. They are all around .. to my left and right and up and down. My dog is standing straight with her hackles as tall as the empire state building, growling under her breath. I'm pretty much frozen as to what to do.. what if they're staring at me right now through the cracks in the trees............<br><br>Wait a sec... ok, *phew*. These are no wolves... at least I THINK. Probably just a pack of whining coyotes. Suddenly it's quiet. I walk up the 70° climb to my house, and stop at the front door and listen. Yeah, yeah, it is for sure coyotes. So we listened for a while... they were no more than 300 feet away from us, but I can't see anything because it is misty and dark, and there are black trees in the way. Snarling and ripping and fighting is all I heard.<br><br>THE END<br><br><br>Coyotes are about the size of a Soft-Coated Wheaton Terrier... but a pack of 10 or so could rip you apart if they really wanted to. A lone coyote is afraid of most anything.<br><br>Wolves on the other hand, not sure. Never met one, don't really want to.<br><br>The bears are another story. I'll post that too!