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...coyotes because much of the city is spread out over and around pockets of brush and canyons in which the animals feel right at home. For a while, the city tried helicoptering troublemaking coyotes to the outlying Angeles National Forest, but it gave up because the beasts would simply trot 100 miles back to their home turf in town. Now, when there is a specific complaint against a coyote, wildlife authorities shoot it on the spot-if they can track it down, that...
...tracks. I had wandered smack into the path of a chestnut gelding and its charming 12-year-old rider, who was pert in her manner, precise in her dress and, in my opinion, a pain in the ass. I mustered up a feeble apology and let her trot by. The manure be damned: I raised my eyes and strode straight ahead...
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...Melish calms himself by meditating on the contents of his wallet. There is a secret-society pin, a silver matchbook from his wedding and-not to be believed-a condom. Melish is a clear case of arrested development, a closet sentimentalist carrying a cherished artifact of his hot-to-trot days at a time when everyone else seems to be in full gallop...
Author Lahr has already earned bouquets for Notes on a Cowardly Lion, an autobiography of his father, Comedian Bert Lahr, and scattered applause for his first novel, The Autograph Hound. Hot to Trot is an entertaining economy tour de force for those who prefer to travel fast and light...