Speaker 1: It's Mojo in the Morning. As I was getting ready
Speaker 1: to go to bed last night, I got a ring alert.
Speaker 1: I get these things all the time. I got a
Speaker 1: ring alert the other day that was so interesting. The
Speaker 1: ring alert the other day kind of cracked me up.
Speaker 1: I actually screenshot at it because I never answered ring alerts.
Speaker 1: I only answer ring alerts in my head. This one
Speaker 1: I actually answered, here was the ring alert that happened Saturday.
Speaker 1: Someone's home car alarm alarm is ringing constantly. Anyone know anything?
Speaker 1: And I answered back with instead of jumping on here,
Speaker 1: why don't you go for a walk and find out.
Speaker 1: I swear to you I'll show it to you.
Speaker 2: This is my neighborhood Facebook page. I don't have a ring, but.
Speaker 1: They know it's Mojo from Mojo in the Morning. I
Speaker 1: honestly don't even know how it shows up, but that's there.
Speaker 1: It is right there for I think it shows up, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think because THEIRS showed up as just neighbor. It
Speaker 1: doesn't really say I don't know. I've never clicked on it.
Speaker 1: But here is my ring alert last night. And this
Speaker 1: is the one that I ask you as you're listening
Speaker 1: to this radio show, have you ever had this happen
Speaker 1: to you? My ring alert last night was zero point
Speaker 1: four miles away from my house, which is actually about
Speaker 1: as close as these ring alerts sometimes get. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, that's pretty much, yes,
Speaker 1: next door, that's next door. And it was coyote spotted
Speaker 1: in our backyard. Keep your pets safe.
Speaker 2: Oh no, that scares me when you have little teeny
Speaker 2: tiny dogs.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I had that at eight thirty eight twenty
Speaker 1: six to be exact, at night, which that is about
Speaker 1: the time actually nine is ish is when I take
Speaker 1: the dogs out the last time to go do their thing,
Speaker 1: and then I end up going you know and laying
Speaker 1: down and going to bed or whatever the deal is.
Speaker 1: So I was thinking to myself, I'm like, do I
Speaker 1: just say no and you know, let them hold it
Speaker 1: for a little bit and bring them out when it's
Speaker 1: you know, light out in the morning. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't do that because I would just screw them up.
Speaker 1: Who wants to sit there and have to wait to
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom. So I'm like, all right, I
Speaker 1: got to get out there with them, which typically what
Speaker 1: I do is I will go out with them, but
Speaker 1: I go out from afar I try to do.
Speaker 2: Are they at least you just let them out and
Speaker 2: they come back in.
Speaker 1: I let them out because they're pretty good about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they we don't have one of those electric fences.
Speaker 1: The guy that did my landscaping screwed that thing up,
Speaker 1: that mother effort. So I have, you know, pretty much
Speaker 1: know how that the dogs are smart enough. Actually, my
Speaker 1: dogs are as lazy as I am. They ain't going
Speaker 1: very far. They know they need coyote or coyote coyote,
Speaker 1: but has anybody ever had a coyote like you know
Speaker 1: issue where coyote eighth. I'm worried about the coyote eating me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I forget the dogs.
Speaker 3: My cousin they live near North Farmington High School, Okay,
Speaker 3: and they have coyotes in their area. And I thought
Speaker 3: coyotes were more of like a wyoming thing, like I
Speaker 3: didn't think that they were like Metro Detroit. I didn't
Speaker 3: know they were that closed. But they run into the
Speaker 3: same issue where they backyard.
Speaker 1: There's coyotes in the actual Detroit area, Like there's people
Speaker 1: that spot them on Finkle. Where are they coming from?
Speaker 2: I don't know? West And I saw a pack of them.
Speaker 2: I've only ever seen like one random one. We saw
Speaker 2: a pack of them across the street maybe like a
Speaker 2: week or two's crazy, like four just boom boom, boom,
Speaker 2: one right after the other.
Speaker 4: Was that?
Speaker 1: Was that a coyote gang?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's scary, but I mean, this is a very random fact.
Speaker 2: But I guess this is my job reporting the dirty.
Speaker 2: Jessica Simpson's little dog was eaten by a coach. Oh really,
Speaker 2: I remember that story because whenever we get the alert
Speaker 2: on our neighborhood facebook page, I get so nervous because
Speaker 2: I have a little teeny tiny dog like you do too,
Speaker 2: and I normally just let my dogs out in the
Speaker 2: backyard because we have a fenced in backyard. But it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. They'll get yeah, they.
Speaker 1: Find a way in always here. Why are they migrating,
Speaker 1: I think because everybody were building on their homes. It's
Speaker 1: like the deer we take, We took away all their homes.
Speaker 1: I worry about coyotes. I also will tell you this,
Speaker 1: I I worry about the deer. At some point, the
Speaker 1: deer aren't going to find animals or things to eat.
Speaker 1: They're gonna eat eat us. You don't like the deer.
Speaker 1: I don't like the deer. You don't like one bit.
Speaker 1: I think we need to un I like listen. I
Speaker 1: like you, and you're an animal human no guaranteed if
Speaker 1: you are. Yeah, okay, I guess you're right. Eight four
Speaker 1: four Mojo Live eight four four six six five sixty
Speaker 1: five four eight is our telephone number? Texts nine five
Speaker 1: five zero zero. What are you more afraid of if
Speaker 1: you're taking your dogs out channing? Are you more afraid
Speaker 1: of coyotes? Or are you more afraid of skunks and
Speaker 1: raccoons and all? Like raccoons have beady eyes?
Speaker 2: Honestly? Coyotes really?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they say that I just googled this thank
Speaker 1: you to Actually it was uh Google chat or whatever.
Speaker 1: Their chatchyptas Gemini, and it says coyotes are fearful of
Speaker 1: humans and will not bother you. Yeah, so says the
Speaker 1: fake a hi and and says that they normally won't
Speaker 1: bother you, which you should watch out for. Interestingly, enough
Speaker 1: are skunks and raccoons. So I just mentioned that and
Speaker 1: it pops up on them.
Speaker 2: Could you imagine? My little Charlie gets to sixteen years old,
Speaker 2: which he is, and that's the way he goes, Oh
Speaker 2: my god, you know what, the more coyote eats.
Speaker 1: Can I be honest with you, Charlie's life is kind
Speaker 1: of like my dog's life. It really wasn't that much
Speaker 1: of an unbelievable life, Like it was just kind of
Speaker 1: be honest so far, Charlie's like, yeah, Okay, we're great.
Speaker 1: He's probably like thinking I could have had a greater life,
Speaker 1: but I now have to be with her. But no, no,
Speaker 1: but think about this. That would go out in a
Speaker 1: great way. It'd be like a military pilot going down
Speaker 1: with his plane. You know, we would have we would
Speaker 1: have a five star situation right there.
Speaker 2: Do you have big birds in your area too? Because
Speaker 2: whenever west, whenever west, like, I don't know what it
Speaker 2: is a hawk?
Speaker 1: Hawks like you get the dog in that's really I
Speaker 1: lived by a bunch of lakes and the hawks are
Speaker 1: always on the lakes. And I've seen it before where
Speaker 1: the hawks dive into the water and go after fish
Speaker 1: and stuff.
Speaker 2: Sweet seven pound dog they.
Speaker 1: Strong claws hold on. Taylor's on with us right now? Taylor, Hi, Hi, Mojo.
Speaker 5: So I live at eleven mile around Okay. Yes, Stan
Speaker 5: and hawks are a real thing. They put hawks the
Speaker 5: warnings for the hawks on the scanner to make sure
Speaker 5: you get your small dogs in because we have a
Speaker 5: small dog.
Speaker 6: We have a Yorkie.
Speaker 5: But another big thing we have to worry about is foxes.
Speaker 7: There's so many foxes in the area.
Speaker 5: What I've seen, I've seen them, yes, yes, all right.
Speaker 1: So the that there's I didn't realize that there's that.
Speaker 5: I was totally like driving down the road like I
Speaker 5: was driving, and at first I thought it was like
Speaker 5: a small dog and then I'm like, wait, it's kind
Speaker 5: of fluffy.
Speaker 6: Is it a cat?
Speaker 7: Oh no, it's kind of pointy.
Speaker 4: In twenty years, that's a fox.
Speaker 1: Wow. That would that would scare the crap out of me.
Speaker 5: Usually not a fox is traveling packs.
Speaker 1: So yeah, ever alone, Yeah, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know about you, but I got to be quite honest
Speaker 1: with you. I just think it's a big ass dog
Speaker 1: from one of my neighbor's houses, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I would be worried about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll go a small.
Speaker 5: Animals, they will and they'll eat them cow.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you remember this song at all? Because I should.
Speaker 1: This would be a great throwback throwdown song. No, I
Speaker 1: know things the artist.
Speaker 6: How do you know that? You know?
Speaker 1: Would you guys get it? Maybe I'll throw it in
Speaker 1: this Friday. Here we go, Ready, here's tailor. I know
Speaker 1: you'll have it in your head all day. I love you, Taylor,
Speaker 1: take care of yourself. What's up, Haley? What's going on?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Okay? I was a little scared
Speaker 1: taking those little dogs out. But what's happening. You live
Speaker 1: in a you live in a rural area.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we have about eight acres split between us and
Speaker 6: our neighbors. And when you guys brought up this topic,
Speaker 6: it was something that obviously touched us. So we had
Speaker 6: a little eight pound yor key and my mom was
Speaker 6: actually outside when it happened. It was about five am
Speaker 6: and all she heard was the screeching. So we took
Speaker 6: him into the emergency that and unfortunately the coyote was
Speaker 6: big enough to wear his mouth had punctured the lung
Speaker 6: of our little puppy and we had to end up
Speaker 6: putting him down due to infection. So you have coyote
Speaker 6: in your area?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that is, by the way, that is sad.
Speaker 1: That's that's a horrible way to go, you know.
Speaker 6: But they're all over, so just be careful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you for the call, Thank you for the warning. Uh, Nathaniel,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Nathaniel?
Speaker 4: Hey Mojo, first time, long time?
Speaker 1: Hey.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So I used to live in Indiana while my
Speaker 4: wife was going to school down at Ayuga, Hoosiers.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: So my next door neighbors they had a little like
Speaker 4: a chihuala type dog and one morning I went missing
Speaker 4: and it was gone for a couple of days, and
Speaker 4: when I came back, was wearing like, you know, those
Speaker 4: like little psyche things that they put on signs keep
Speaker 4: birds off of. Yeah, I was wearing a little vest
Speaker 4: like that. I asked him, what's up. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: it got picked up by a hawk. Their school bus
Speaker 4: driver that dropped their kid off ended up finding it
Speaker 4: at the school, which is like a mile away from
Speaker 4: our house, and had like four legs broken, three ribs revived.
Speaker 1: You were when you were asking it, you were talking
Speaker 1: to the dog, and the dog was answering back, or
Speaker 1: who are you talking to? It sounded like, oh, your
Speaker 1: next door neighbor. Okay, I'm like I thought, he was
Speaker 1: like yeah, And then it came back wearing a vest
Speaker 1: and I'm like doctor.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they ended up putting Uh wow, end up living.
Speaker 1: Maybe I need one of those. Maybe I need one
Speaker 1: of those vest with spikes on it for the coyotes
Speaker 1: and stuff. It will, you know, walk up to it
Speaker 1: and you can get poked porcupon the Only problem is
Speaker 1: I'd have to put that thing on and off. I
Speaker 1: mean I already I'm not as bad as Shannon. But Shannon,
Speaker 1: you have I see sometimes that you got pictures of
Speaker 1: Charlie with diapers on and stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, he has to have diaper on or else there'd
Speaker 2: be p all over my house.
Speaker 1: That doesn't That doesn't bode well that though, does it? Though?
Speaker 1: You have to kind of take it on and off
Speaker 1: when you take Charlie outside.
Speaker 2: Oh, I changed his diaper like you change as many
Speaker 2: times the day as you change a baby diaper.
Speaker 1: Really, yeah, that's crust.
Speaker 2: I'm right by the door to go, oh my god,
Speaker 2: as soon as he comes in diaper.
Speaker 1: See I told you Charlie wants to go out in
Speaker 1: a good way. Poor bastard's wearing a diaper.
Speaker 2: It's not because of incontinence. It's because he's super type A.
Speaker 2: So anywhere he smells the other dogs, he'll.
Speaker 1: Look just like, yeah, what's what's up Cleveland? Hey, good morning,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Hey? I live at twelve van van Dyke.
Speaker 8: So one day I come home, I pull up in
Speaker 8: front of my house.
Speaker 1: The squirrel dark under my car.
Speaker 8: So when I get out the car, I can see
Speaker 8: the squirrel like poking his head out looking. I'm like,
Speaker 8: woy is the squirrel doing this?
Speaker 1: I look up.
Speaker 8: It's a hawk circling the area. The squirrel actually hid
Speaker 8: under my car in my tire whale because he knew
Speaker 8: that the squirrel was talking. Oh my god, was trying
Speaker 8: to get him. The craziest thing I have, the thing
Speaker 8: that is wild, like National Geography.
Speaker 1: Is at eleven mile in Mound. Is that where you
Speaker 1: said it was?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Where was twelve and Van Dyke? Twelve and Van Dyke Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was one of the colors before that.
Speaker 8: And I have four pomer and so I had to
Speaker 8: get them all in a house.
Speaker 1: Two. Wow, that's crazy. It's interesting that when the animals
Speaker 1: just have no problem again with you, but they know
Speaker 1: that the hawks are around. What's it right now? Elizabeth says,
Speaker 1: it's some kind of special thing right now? What's going on?
Speaker 7: Hi, good morning, it's actually their mating season right now.
Speaker 7: I think January through March. You're in Michigan, so just
Speaker 7: keep a really close eye on all your little fur
Speaker 7: babies because they might get a little bit more aggressive
Speaker 7: and a little more pulled. Oh my god, and first time, long.
Speaker 2: Time I left on the float.
Speaker 1: Watch out for those horny coyotes that are out there.
Speaker 1: What's up, Diane High?
Speaker 6: Hey, how are you?
Speaker 7: And Mojoe?
Speaker 1: I'm great? Hey, keV. Watch out for the deer. They're
Speaker 1: little bastards. Why Diane, My.
Speaker 5: Sister let her dogs out there?
Speaker 6: Were my sister.
Speaker 5: My daughter's dog was there too, so they had three
Speaker 5: of them out there playing and for one dog got.
Speaker 8: Kicked in the face and broke its cheekbone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little asshole. I stopped, didn't I stopped?
Speaker 7: Have surgery and everything to fix it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow, that's by. Can I tell you something. I
Speaker 1: look at these deer all the time, and they have
Speaker 1: those eyes, and they don't They used to be fearful
Speaker 1: of you, like they would hear a noise and they
Speaker 1: would run. Now they actually are like I'll take you.
Speaker 1: They're looking at property lines. They're like, this was my
Speaker 1: property at one point before you Thank you Diana, I
Speaker 1: appreciate it, no problem, Texter says, you guys got to
Speaker 1: watch out in Eastern Market. You guys have animals just
Speaker 1: roaming the streets.
Speaker 2: Remember that.
Speaker 1: That was one of the funniest time afternoons we've ever had.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, we look outside the window and
Speaker 1: what was it. Yeah, it's just like running down the street.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of myself, that thing is gonna get on
Speaker 1: seventy five.
Speaker 5: Right, Butcher's chasing it.
Speaker 1: That that thing's actually either got one of two things.
Speaker 1: It's going to die in one of those butcher shops
Speaker 1: or it's going to hit a semi in right there. Chrissy, chrissy.
Speaker 1: What are the coyotes in the city called?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 9: We used to just call them like rusty or like
Speaker 9: like like rowdy or ghetto coyotes. So I used to
Speaker 9: look at like Evergreen and Finkle there was like a
Speaker 9: manufacturing center there, and in the mornings after after all
Speaker 9: the drivers came in that the coyotes would come out
Speaker 9: from like a little little bare minimum forest area between
Speaker 9: the like the assembly plant and the houses.
Speaker 1: See, they wouldn't scraps. They're in the city. You gotta
Speaker 1: watch out. They're not just in. They're not just in
Speaker 1: you know, out suburbs of you know, Detroit, Crane Rapids
Speaker 1: and Toledo. They're actually in our cities. Guys. Watch out
Speaker 1: for those guys.