Coyotes? Well, Peter sees those pretty regularly. Welcome to Walking is Fitness. This is a podcast of action

providing a little extra motivation to help you keep that fitness promise you made to yourself.

Hi, I'm Dave. I started walking for fitness in

2013. Still take an intentional fitness walk every single day. I'm walking right now and I would love

to have you join me for the next 10 minutes. Earlier this week, Wednesday in fact told two stories,

one that was scary, unnerving.

The other was downright frightening.

The first one involved someone walking with a small dog who encountered a coyote.

There was a little bit of a stare down.

Coyote even started following this person and their dog as they were backing away.

Scary.

And then the second story happened a couple of years ago.

A young man named Kyle, who was out for a run, encountered a mountain lion.

And that encounter lasted for more than six minutes. Frightening. Peter sent me an

email, hi Dave. Hope all is well with you almost every day on my walk. You say something and I think,

I must send them an email and respond to that. But I get home, the day takes over, and I forget about it.

Except today. Love the coyote story. I see them almost every day. Sometimes they run away,

or freeze, or nonchalantly watch me, and the dogs, but mostly they just get on with business.

Never felt threatened by them.

We have mountain lions, but I've never seen one. Occasionally there's a bobcat, but they're quite shy. We have snow on the forecast for the next few days. Happens about once a decade here.

Peter lives in California. Should be fun. Keep up the good work and the stories. All the best.

Peter. This is Peter Bose. Not only listen to the podcast, but has a podcast of his own,

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