I call them coyotes (2 sylables). When someone calls them "coyotee" that just sounds "city" or "eastern" to me. Plus, almost everyone in Kali calls them "coyotees". Makes me want to snicker, and I envision some bad 50's western when people talk like that, but what the heck, no skin off my back.
The cute little pet names usually don't bother me too much, except when people start calling pronghorns "speed goat". That just makes my skin crawl for some reason.
I guess it's just human nature. People want to learn and use the "inside lingo" to show they're, well, "on the inside" or "in the know". Article writers in the magazines seem to be especially guilty of this. I usually take with a huge grain of salt what anyone doing that says.
Funny, I don't really have much of a problem with "yote" or
"muley", but that "speed goat" thing.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif
