Coyote
An adaptable, wide-ranging wild dog — the trickster who thrives where larger predators have been removed.
A coyote in a dream is the dream's image of the trickster figure that thrives in the gaps left by larger powers. Coyotes have spread into territory the wolves once held; the smaller, more flexible animal won the long game. The dream brings the coyote when something in your life — a cleverness, an unofficial operator, a habit you find embarrassing — is succeeding precisely because the formal arrangements that used to crowd it out are gone. A coyote at the edge of the road, watching, is the dream affirming the adaptive intelligence. A coyote moving through the suburbs in broad daylight is the dream noting that the trickster has stopped pretending to be a wild-country animal and is now openly part of the city.