Coyote Attack!

[Cactus]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> Obviously the ones who were around your dog weren't all that hungry or he would have been in a world of hurt. </font> )</font>

I use to have a Yellow Black Mouth Cur/Leopard Cur Dog mix and we had a coyote or 2 hanging around,in the woods behind my house and that cur dog was after the coyote's more than once . I don't know what would have happened if the coyotes had called that dogs bluff, but I know that cur dog kept the coyotes away from the house.He was mad all of the time.

 

[GerardC]

Here's a photo of our A.I.D. Here is a link to an A.I.D. web page that you may find interesting. Click on the bottom of the web page to visit their entire site.

 

[Cactus]

Very interesting....beautiful dogs....intriguing.

 

[Laminarman]

In response to Toy: shoot now while you still have your dogs. A friend of mine had the exact similar situation with coyotes coming around every few days bothering her large dog (mutt). Apparently her dog was aggressive and over 100lbs. But one morning she heard an aweful screaming and it was her kids watching out the front window as a pack of five or six coyotes tore her dog to ribbons in front of their eyes. She couldn't stop them before the dog was disemboweled and dead. Shoot now, don't wait.

 

[ronnie2005]

This is to know one in particular, just about a dog we once had. I was 6 when Dad brought home a 2 year old Chow/Husky mix. He was so big I could hardly see over his back! We kept him for about a year, but because of his size just to big for our place in Southern Cal. We gave him to my cousin in Southern Or., he had 200 acres of farm, great place. Well, Kilroy(the dog) owned the place. We would vist about twice a year and my cousin would show me the grave yard behind the barn. There were several small graves, the neighbors cats, but I noticed some very large ones, and of course asked what were those? Three wolves, 5 coyotes, 1 mountain lion, was his reply. He had to make a trip to the vet after the lion for stitches but no real harm done. Kilroy weighed in at 175lbs during the summer and wasn't afraid of anything. Cousin told me that the last wolf he took down in less than 30sec and then just looked at the rest of the pack and they ran off and never came back. Kilroy went to sleep on the front porch at 22 years old and never woke up. My cousin has had 3 more Chow/Husky mix since then and all have had about the same attitude. This is my place and you don't belong here. Just alittle something I thought I would share with you' all.

 

[PBinWA]

In the west the coyotes are a lot smaller than in the south and east. This may be due to less in breeding with dogs/wolves/whatever or just Darwinism.

Apparently, coyotes have twice the jaw crushing strength of dogs. So pound for pound they will have an upper hand.

My 100 pound Weimaraner/Lab cross terrorizes the coyote population where I live. I suspect they are counting the years until he gets older but he will have a younger hunting buddy to help him out by then.

You need a BIG tough and physically fit dog with attitude to deal with Coyotes. My neighbors Great Pyrennes (100 + pounds with probably an additional 100 pounds of fur) has been torn up a little once or twice but she isn't very agile. She still comes home and is outside all the time.

A 175 pound husky/chow cross killing a cougar is amazing. I would have to see that one to believe it. Not saying it isn't true - just amazing.

 

[Laminarman]

PB: I don't care how big or tough a dog is, coyotes are killing machines and they'll kill any dog if they have a pack and are in the mood to kill. In the East they can get big. A buddy dropped one on a dead run with a 30-06 to the head and weighed at 80lbs. It's mounted in his study, howling, and is very scary to think he was running around his rural home. Never mind the neighbors complaining about the gun shot, once they saw the dog they agreed it was OK to shoot it.

 

[Boone]

If you run stock and are concerned about coyote and wolf just run one and only one medium or large donkey in with the herd.

 

[HammerFour]

The problem you will have no matter how big the dog is you have is the lion and hyena scenario...the lion can slaughter any single hyena, but if you get a few of them he can't spin fast enough to protect his back....and eventually the little nips and bites either drive him off or kill him.

Same thing with dogs if they run into enough coyotes, coy-dogs, or wolves.

 

[Tevi]

We have a pair of Great Pyrenese that fix the problem.They are also great with the kids