Monster coyote track

[perchie.girl]

Yep I have had more disasterous encounter from packs of feral dogs... or domestic dogs out for a lark... They chase and kill chase and kill leaving bodies but none eaten for food... They eventually got my goats... A mountain lion would have taken one and carried it off for a liesurly meal...

Livestock guardian or just plain old big barking dog that marks its territory is one of the biggest deterrents... But I feel they should be either in pairs or a pack of their own...

Though I have personally seen my Guinea Fowl Flock escort a coyote off the property... Yelling and charging the Coyote... He kept looking back... as if to say "This Aint Right...."

I wish i had gotten video of that I was just bemused that they were doing it.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Some of you are messing with something that is not a Coyote. I have real Coyotes and they are not able to go toe to toe with a putbull when numbers are equal. When the Coyotes operating as a "pack", there is only two combatant Coyotes with pups just making noise. The Coyotes here are in the 35 to 40 lb range in terms of weight. If you are messing with 60+ plus then they are a good part domestic dog or Gray Wolf. You crazy people in the norther US likely have the latter mixed in.

Some attacks attributed to Coyotes on LGD's, I think are from packed up domestic dogs. In a couple cases, even other LGD's when neighboring farmers are too close together.

Coy Dogs or Wolf dogs happen in the wild as well.

Just like the Polar bear and Grizzly crosses they are finiding up in the north.... An adaptation due to climate change... They are simply changing thier foraging looking for food and their territories are over lapping...

deb

 

[Jammerz]

Killed one in December that went about 50 pounds. I will try and post a photo.

 

[Stepnout]

There may be a chance it is an Easter wolf extending farther south.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_wolf

 

[Trish1974]

There may be a chance it is an Easter wolf extending farther south.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_wolf

I was talking with a colleague a few years ago who is an avid hunter. He was deer hunting a couple miles north of my house and swears he saw a wolf. He was pretty spun up about it and was adamant it wasn't a coyote.

 

[Kris5902]

The most recent local dog related coyote Attack was 2-3 coyotes up against 2 pit bulls and a smaller dog. It appears the put Bulls were protecting the smaller dog. One pit bull was mauled to death, second pit bull serioudly injured and the small dog has a couple bite/scratches on head areas the pit bull definitely died for the smaller dog.

I find that hard to believe (the injuries, not the pitties defending the smaller dog!)... the thing that finally drove the coyotes out of my neighborhood was 2 untrained somewhat aggressive pit bulls moving in and being allowed to roam. The male was huge though, largest pittie I’ve seen, and the smaller female was mostly people aggressive, whereas “Zeus” was more animal aggressive.

His owner tried to placate me when he was stalking outside my house by saying he was “just after my cats” and not a threat to me, but to watch out for the female cause she’s bit several people. Things I DON’T miss about the city... idiots and dense coyote population that is so used to people! So that was the month I finally finished fully fencing my yard... 6 foot privacy fence atop my 3-4 feet of retaining wall. 4.5 foot gate on the back was my lowest point near my car port off the garage.

 

[MROO]

Some of you are messing with something that is not a Coyote. I have real Coyotes and they are not able to go toe to toe with a putbull when numbers are equal. When the Coyotes operating as a "pack", there is only two combatant Coyotes with pups just making noise. The Coyotes here are in the 35 to 40 lb range in terms of weight. If you are messing with 60+ plus then they are a good part domestic dog or Gray Wolf. You crazy people in the norther US likely have the latter mixed in.

Some attacks attributed to Coyotes on LGD's, I think are from packed up domestic dogs. In a couple cases, even other LGD's when neighboring farmers are too close together.

According to the local farmers who've had the testing done, the "coyotes" along the eastern end of the PA/MD line are in the 60/30/10 to 70/20/10 (coyote/wolf/dog) range. They've been tracked for years, migrating down from the north, interbreeding as they go. I haven't seen any here, but they're on my sister's dairy farm, 15 minutes away. We no longer have feral cats in our neighborhood, so something is hunting in my woods. My neighbors trail cam (and his coon hound) have spotted an increase of foxes in the area - probably being pushed "ahead" by their larger, interloping cousins.
We now have a larger dog, too. Skye's not an LGD, but she's a bellower who notices every movement or stray sound in the yard. Sometimes we see what she's alerting to (a couple of coons, a 'possum and at least one fox,) but usually it's a mystery. So far, my birds have been safe, so we put up with the noise!

 

[llombardo]

I find that hard to believe (the injuries, not the pitties defending the smaller dog!)... the thing that finally drove the coyotes out of my neighborhood was 2 untrained somewhat aggressive pit bulls moving in and being allowed to roam. The male was huge though, largest pittie I’ve seen, and the smaller female was mostly people aggressive, whereas “Zeus” was more animal aggressive.

His owner tried to placate me when he was stalking outside my house by saying he was “just after my cats” and not a threat to me, but to watch out for the female cause she’s bit several people. Things I DON’T miss about the city... idiots and dense coyote population that is so used to people! So that was the month I finally finished fully fencing my yard... 6 foot privacy fence atop my 3-4 feet of retaining wall. 4.5 foot gate on the back was my lowest point near my car port off the garage.

If fencing for a coyote, there really is no fence that is guaranteed. They can fly over a 4 and 5 ft fence and with a little more difficulty a 6 ft fence, not to mention they dig a he under faster then you can blink. Pit Bulls are sldo great at scaling fences but it's not as easy for them as a coyote. If it's chainlink, then both will get in quickly.

This is the one pit bull--don't have a picture of the mauled one. The bite marks to the face went completely through.

 

[cmom]

It could be a coydog.

 

[Kris5902]

If fencing for a coyote, there really is no fence that is guaranteed. They can fly over a 4 and 5 ft fence and with a little more difficulty a 6 ft fence, not to mention they dig a he under faster then you can blink. Pit Bulls are sldo great at scaling fences but it's not as easy for them as a coyote. If it's chainlink, then both will get in quickly.

This is the one pit bull--don't have a picture of the mauled one. The bite marks to the face went completely through.

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Neither the coyotes or pit bulls made any attempts to scale or jump the 9-10 feet over my flat wooden fence and concrete retaining wall combo (technically it was under the 6 foot height limit for zoning, just built on “higher grade”!) I replaced the chain link that came with the property. The 3-4 foot high, 10inch wide concrete sunk another foot or so deep also highly discouraged digging. Didn’t stop cats, raccoons, squirrels, or rats though...

Can’t fence like that in the country though, it’s not economical. I was just on a large city lot back then... a little over 1/4 acre.