sam and the coyote

Sam is a fourteen year old (overweight) yorkie. I cater to his needs. This morning at 3:30, I let him out to pee. He usually wanders around the cul de sac for awhile before heading back to my front door.  I heard him snarling so I ran out to see what was up and a silver coyote had run out of the woods and was not scared off by the snarling much smaller canine. I started hollering and Sam and the coyote continued to go back and forth in the street. Suddenly the van delivering the morning paper headed down our street and that's when the coyote hightailed it back into the woods via the empty lot next door. This will make a delightful story to tell the second graders when I sub later today.