A dead guy out there, in my back yard.

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I live in a pretty small town, around 14,000 people. We have had two murders in town in the 30 years I have lived here, and very little violent crime at all. A few years back, my husband worked out of town on a late shift. He would get home and upstairs to bed around eleven-thirty in the evening. I worked days, and went to bed early, I had to get up and get my great niece off to school as she was living with me at that time. One night he came to bed and said "Don't let Katy go out the back way to school, there is a dead coyote (Ky ote) out back in the yard." I told him to dial the administrative number at the police, to contact animal control to pick up the dead animal. He got up, and did as I asked, then came up and said, "When they get here, they want to talk to me" I figured there was some fish and game laws or something we had to deal with. He said they asked how he knew he was dead and he told them "I nudged him with my foot" I was laying in bed, and I heard the sirens, one . . two . . . three emergency vehicles going down the road, but listen, they stopped, I could see the lights through the bedroom window, I could hear shouting in the back yard! ! After a very long time, my husband came up to bed. I do not think he has an accent, but the dispatcher had heard him, very clearly say, "There is a dead guy out there in my backyard. The police, and the paramedics and the fire department all came to render aid. They wanted to question my husband regarding the circumstances of this guy's death. Several emergency personel were embarrassed, including one dispatcher, when they learned that they had come prepared to try to revive a coyote. The only thing we can figure out is that our yard is always heavily planted in wild life attracting habitat, and the coyote was injured, possibly by the nearby train, and crawled into our yard to die. I am sad for that, but it has given us a fun family story. Feel free to share family stories, or animal stories with us. They both seem to always have appeal.