Hey, redrider. Welcome to TFL!
I'm at Fort Lewis, next to Tacoma. I had never seen a live yodel dog until recently. We were in the field last week, and my squad (down to 4 and sergeant because of various training obligations) was serving as OPFOR for the 11Bravos in the company. It was about midnight Thursday night/Friday morning, and I was sitting on the ground, pressed into a huge clump of brush at the edge of the road. I was only armed with my PVS-14 night vision gear because I was designated a gunner for my mortar squad. Since he gets to carry a 60mm cannon, the gunner wears a Beretta M9 as a backup, and we had no 9mm blanks...
Anyway, it was fairly breezy, so I was wearing my GoreTex top. I was scanning to my right, and as I scanned back to my left, my monocular showed a large animal directly in front.
"Aigh!" I choked, startled, before the synapses kicked in. There had been a coyote walking by, and I spotted him at about 2 meters. He appeared to be about as startled as I was, and took off, but I recovered and starting making hurt rabbit-type squealey noises. He stopped about 40 meters away, and half-circled back, thought about it, and decided that whatever I was, I was too weird for him, and ambled off.