Coyote suprise!

[Sportfury]

During the day my dad takes care of my dogs while I am gone. I have a nine-year-old shorthair, Deke, and a two-year-old wirehair female, Sophie. I gave my dad Sophie's brother (Sage), so when the three of them get going they go all out. My dad took them out in the back pasture today and the two pups went thundering into the back and Deke stayed up front. My dad said a coyote was mousing in the tall grass and when the pups went out in the back they trapped it without knowing it. When Deke saw the coyote he was on it and the three dogs surrounded it. My dad said it was neat to see the coyote arching its back and displaying open mouthed. He said no amount of shock collar even convinced the three dogs off the coyote. The coyote made the first move and attacked Sophie, I assume because she is the smallest, and then Deke was in and grabbed it by the hind end. All four ended up in a pile and then my dad said the coyote popped up, hit the after burners, and headed for the woods with two wirehairs and a shorthair in full pursuit. Once the coyote made the woods he easily lost the dogs and then my dad was able to call them back via the electronic collars. This all happened in a short amount of time and my dad said all he could do was stand there. We run the dogs in this field almost daily and they leave doggy evidence there all the time, so I am suprised the coyote was even in the field. I bet he or she will think twice before coming back for another coyote suprise.  

[Charlie]

Great story, thanks!

[cwuwildcat]

That's cool the dog's kicked the yote's butt.  I don't think yote's are afraid of dogs.  I was part of another thread were the guy actually uses his dogs as bait for coyotes.  He sends a dog out into the field, and when the coyote gets sight of it, he calls the dog back to him.  The yote is busy following the dog and gets thumped before he knows that he's been deeked.

[ser300wsm]

  Thanks for the story. Dogs rule 

[wsucowboy]

My dad's chocolate and my step moms red healer killed a coyote out on there place in Buckley. I was surprised when my dad told me about never heard of that happening before.

[Sportfury]

With three on one I don't think the yote would have stood a chance against the german blood if it had stood its ground. These dogs are heck on cats and anything else with fur. Of course the germans bred them for fur and game and use them to hunt everything from stag down to fox and vermin.

[Sportfury]

After I posted this the next weekend my dad took the dogs for a run and shot a 2/3 grown pup in the same pasture. At the shot two more dogs took off that he hadn't seen. He said one was definitely full grown. Mom teaching pups how to hunt or maybe she was hoping the pups would lure the dogs back in the trees where she could do a take down. To date they haven't been back.

[tlbradford]

I was living on the ground level of a duplex in Pullman back in college.  My golden retriever was 3 years old at the time.  It was around 11:00 pm on a summer evening and the front door was open with the screen door closed.  I heard my dog growling at the door and under the streetlight about 10 yards away a coyote was nosing around the trash can.  I decided to mess with my dog and said, "get 'em Hagen!"  Much to my surprise he jumped through the screen door and hit that coyote at a dead run.  That coyote did two rolls and was out of there with my dog following on its heels but losing ground fast.  I ran after him and called him back but he kept after it.  He came back about 5 minutes later looking really pleased that he had protected the house.  Too bad he couldn't fix the screen too.

[Sportfury]

I was living on the ground level of a duplex in Pullman back in college.  My golden retriever was 3 years old at the time.  It was around 11:00 pm on a summer evening and the front door was open with the screen door closed.  I heard my dog growling at the door and under the streetlight about 10 yards away a coyote was nosing around the trash can.  I decided to mess with my dog and said, "get 'em Hagen!"  Much to my surprise he jumped through the screen door and hit that coyote at a dead run.  That coyote did two rolls and was out of there with my dog following on its heels but losing ground fast.  I ran after him and called him back but he kept after it.  He came back about 5 minutes later looking really pleased that he had protected the house.  Too bad he couldn't fix the screen too.

Thats funny. That screen door held him for how long and then all it took was a coyote and he was through it.