Update 01/26/2006

It has been almost a year since Amber was shot in her pen by an unknown person. Her eye had to be removed by Dr. Wolf. In the beginning, her recovery was very slow. Her emotional recovery has taken longer than her physical recovery. The place where her eye used to be has healed and fur has covered the spot. Sometimes, it seems as if the eye is still there. However, it has been difficult to rebuild trust with her. Since I was the one who had to get her into her crate in order to get her to Dr. Wolf immediately after being shot, she associated me with her pain. We have worked on that problem this last year and it has improved. I have been able to start taking a few people in to meet her. We have to be very careful, because she does still get startled if approached on the side where she doesn’t have an eye. I have not tried to put her on a leash yet to take her for a walk with her dog friend, Wrecker. I will do that this summer. She is still scared of the light from a flashlight. Who can blame her? I want to thank everyone again for your support for this special coyote. You helped us through a very difficult time. I did get some hate mail, but your support far outweighed that. Even after eighteen years of working with coyotes, I am still surprised by the hate out there for God’s Dog. Indiana Coyote Rescue Center will continue to help coyotes, one coyote at a time. They are special animals. CeAnn

Here are some recent photos of Amber

Hello again everyone. Here is an update from CeAnn regarding her coyote Amber. She sent me some pictures and i am including them here. The surgery and follow up care for Amber is $600.00 and she had to buy more plywood to try and make her pens safer which has come to over $300.00. I realize that with our economy as it is right now, most people live paycheck to paycheck and many live on fixed incomes. CeAnn has several babies that have MBD and need constant vet care so CeAnn's budget was already strained before this tragic attack happened to Amber. ANY donation to CeAnn will be extremely helpful no matter how small it is. If all you can afford to send is $1.00 please do so...put it into an envelope and send to the address below...or use the Paypal button on her site. If everyone would send even one dollar think of how many dollars that would be! Thank you all soooo very much for your prayers and any donation that you can come up with!

Amber Update March 3, 2005 Amber is doing well. She is having a difficult time adjusting to being blind on her left side. Robert, my volunteer and Amber's friend, spent a couple of hours in her pen getting rid of loose wire, sticks on the tree and other things that she might hurt herself on. She is howling with the other coyotes and has stopped growling at me. She is getting very good meat and Ensure for extra vitamins to help with her physical healing. She is a true coyote and is showing how adaptable they can be. As soon as someone stops by with a digital camera, I will post pictures. Last week, a woman called me and was hysterical. She gave me the name of an adolescent at one of the High Schools. She said that he was bragging at school about shooting a coyote in it's pen, but that he missed and only shot out it's eye. Since that time, he has shot her dog, because he doesn't like her son. She hung up the phone without giving me her name. Friday, I met with the Principle at the school and he is going to look into it for me. There are two families with the last name and they live next door to each other. Together, they have five children. It may take time to see which one did the shooting. He is passing out my reward flyers to the teachers. Hopefully, this week I will get some feedback from him. I just don't understand parents. We don't let children drive until they are sixteen. We don't allow them to vote or drink alcohol until they are twenty one. It is illegal here to sell them cigarettes until they are eighteen, but yet they give them weapons that are capable of killing animals and humans at a very young age. My motion sensor lights were installed last saturday. This place is as lit up as a prison at night. My two surveillance cameras have arrived and I am in the process of finding out what is needed to make them work. I will update again when I can post some pictures. CeAnn

February 6th 2005

My beautiful, precious Amber is healing. This will be a long process for her, but I just want to let the many people who care about her know what is going on. Her eye does not look good. It continues to seep a little blood. Dr. Wolf says that as long as the blood isn't dripping, that it is better to just let it be, rather than to stress her out by trying to get her back to the clinic. I agree with him. She not only needs to heal physically, but emotionally and behaviorally as well. She is afraid of a flashlight and is not the trusting Amber she used to be. I am working with three Ethologists who are giving me some very good suggestions on how to win back her trust. The response from people all over the world has been like a miracle. I can't believe the number of people who came together from all over the world to help this little coyote. Your donations have made it possible for her vet. bill to be paid, for plywood to be bought, for a reward to be offered, for some surveillance to be purchased for her pen (soon) and for me to buy her the best, freshest food to help her heal. Her medications are also paid for. I have received donations from as small as $.22 to as large as $500. I have tried to personally thank everyone. I hope that I haven't missed anyone. I will keep you updated as she continues to heal. As soon as she starts looking better on the left side of her face, I will post pictures. I have always thought that Americans were generous people. You have proven that. Thank you for helping me and Amber. If I ever find out who did this, I will post his name. CeAnn

Beautiful Amber before the attack on her

Photos taken after the shooting

Here are some more recent photos of Amber.