Jan 23, 2010: Coyotesicle
 

How cold was it in Silt, Colorado?

A ~ Minus 28 degrees F.
B ~ Cold enough to make a Coyotesicle.

http://cellar.org/2010/coyotefroze.jpg

At 28 below, you need more than a fur coat. ;)

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Is it just me, or does it look as though Wiley was frozen in mid-leap, whilst having a great time?

It's just you. :haha:

I agree, but I would add: frozen in mid-leap, whilst having a great time and having a poo. In the last photo I reckon I can see Mr Hanky half way out the door.

On death the bowels release: maybe the poop was as it died?


That's a bizarre picture. I'm not sure I believe it though... Surely if it froze to death it'd have gone into hypothermia first, and lay/fallen down. The midstep thing just looks fake.

I once saw a sparrow that had died while drinking from a puddle. It looked just like a live bird would, but it wasn't moving, and when I touched it, it was quite cold. And this was in a southern Australian winter, only about +10C. On the other hand, that pouncy bouncy coyote posture does seem like such an unlikely moment to kark it.

That was repeat to everyone in the room funny.

There is a tradition around here of wise guys posing roadkill if their posture is nice...

To me the pose doesn't look pouncy, it looks like, "Shit, it's hard to walk in snow up to your chest, gotta... get that front leg higher... oops, back leg's kind of stuck, pull harder..."

I had thought that it might have been pointing up or down wind during a blow, maybe buried up to it's chest, pausing for a moment to rest, but not intending to bunker down for the night next to a road.

But I think Griff's notion of posing is highly likely. I have a friend who dresses up road kill in doll clothes and poses them in all sorts of postures re-enacting children's and adults stories.

One of the funniest series depicts a chipmunk in a dress who is making out with a Quasimodo doll. The mouse's husband (played by my friend's very much alive cat) comes home and catches them in flagrante delicto. The cat goes berserk and rips up Q.

(Q was covered in chipmunk scent, the chipmunk had been removed before the cat got it.)
Talk bout time on your hands.

Looks to me like a coyote stuffed and posed to look as if it's in a life-like scamper -- all ready for placement in some hunter's game room. Guess the guy just had to have his roadside giggle before he took it home from the taxidermist.

:shotgun:

I wonder how long it took the taxidermist to do this one?

http://cellar.org/2010/dead-frozen-deer.jpg

I've heard about this plenty of times. (I expounded on this elsewhere on the Cellar.) The animal struggles in deep snow. It becomes exhausted, stops to rest, hypothermia sets in. The animal then freezes to death, and is held in a normal posture by the snow drift. Later, the snow melts [Strother Martin] and you get what we had here this evening. Which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it.[/Strother Martin]

Or the wind blows the snow away.

I don't like it any more than you do.

Are you going to make a squirrelcicle, Jim?