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Our strange coyote

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We've got a weird coyote in the neighbourhood. The best we can figure is that the other coyotes don't want to play with it,so it wants to form a pack with our dogs. :? The dogs disagree. :shock:

He/she comes to our yard early in the morning, and just stands and stares. My German Shepherd goes crazy barking, but they never fight. I took this picture this morning. The coyote is no more than 50 feet from me, and there is a ditch between it and me. You can just see the back end of my dog going into the ditch to go confront the coyote. (She gets real brave when I'm there. :roll: ) The digital camera can't keep up to the action, but when they met, they were about two feet apart, with the dog just going nuts barking in the coyote's face. The coyote just laid down on the ground, and didn't move. I called Zelda off, and she came back to me. Then the coyote got up and walked away at a leisurely pace.

I'll try and get better pictures next time, and I'm quite sure there will be more than one next time.

BTW, this coyote has never approached the cattle, but I do know it almost killed a deer in the neighbours yard a few weeks ago. It knows better than to go in our pasture. :D

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We had one that did this one time too. Every day we would go out to AI and he would go with. Just like a dog. He would actually run up behind our dog and nip him in the butt. He would get just a few yards away from us. Then he just dissappeared. Someone must have got him. It was kind of neat, but wierd too.
 
A lot of times in the spring we'll have a yrling pup trail us when we're riding. They just haven't gotten the "fear" yet. Sooner or later someone will pop a shot at them and they'll get wild. They are curious animals anyway, it's pretty common to have one hang around. If you don't want it around fire some buck shot at it . It will get the idea. :lol:
 
I used to have a coyote shadow, and he was interesting to watch. He'd stalk the feedlot, I guess mousing. The coolest thing was when he'd use my pressure on a herd of turkeys and ambush them while they responded to my pressure. I don't know if he was this smart or a happy accident, but I saw this happen 3 times. A friend of mine came home from college - drove through the feedlot looking for me and shot shadow. I told this story to an older ady in Gordon, Ne and she hurumphed "he prolly had rabies" If he had rabies, he lived with it for 6 months until he died of 220 swift poisoning.
 
Maybe it's just the pic, but he looks like he's missing some hair from his @$$ there. I'd be careful lettin' your dog cavort with him. He might have mange. I'd just put a fresh breathing hole in him and be done with it, but to each their own.
 
I had a coyote act this way. He was trying to get my dog to follow, then the pack moves in and kills the dog. Happened early to a neighbor and his dog. My dog stayed home and the coyote finially left.
 
A few years ago, I had a coyote sit in the field checking on my corn planting to see of the rows were straight. He just sat and watched me plant corn and sometimes he'd sit on the mark as if he was checking it out for straight Which it wasn't!).

Got dark and he disappeared. I got off at the bush end of the field to check things over and just when I was going around the end of the planter to get back on the tractor, something MOVED right beside me in the edge of the bush.

I darn near crapped my drawers, thinking it was the wolf. I hate to tell you what it was.

















Well since I was behind the tractor and the lights were on, it was my shadow. Oh, boy. :oops: :oops: :oops: :lol: :lol:
 
The bald patch is just winter hair shedding out. (My dog gets treated with Revolution on a regular basis anyway so I'm not worried about mange.)

I'm not sure if it's male or female either, but I'll take the camera out next time Zelda starts barking in the morning, and maybe I'll be able to get close enough to see.

Maple Leaf, I bet the coyote in the corn field was waiting for you to dig up some moles or mice or such. They're pretty smart that way. They will eat their weight in rodents. That's why we don't bother them as long as they don't bother the cattle.
 
I don't know where or how coyotes bed down to raise their young, but there was a good-sized hole dug into the side of a sandbank on the edge of the field I was planting. Mighta been a fox den, for that matter.
 
ranch hand said:
I had a coyote act this way. He was trying to get my dog to follow, then the pack moves in and kills the dog. Happened early to a neighbor and his dog. My dog stayed home and the coyote finially left.
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I can relate to that, been on horseback, moving cows, have dogs with us, coyotes howling close by, our dogs put on the chase only to be pounced on by a whole pack of them. Our dogs have learned, but it is very eerie, listening to them put up their trap. Wonder if they were hungry enough they would eat me and my horse?????? :shock: :shock: :shock: :!:

Also, fixing fence in the 6-wheeler, a couple years ago, danged coyote followed us everywhere, had the dogs with me (they followed me for miles then I felt sorry for them and gave them a ride) trying to set up a trap. Scarey stuff, when you're out there with the wildlife sometimes :shock:
 
I would bet that was a female coyotte and the bald spot is because there hair is loose this time of year and because of males breeding it.
I have coyottes in my yard all the time. Mostly at night. Example in the winter when it gets dark early they normally bark at me as soon as I open the door to go out and feed.
Now in the daytime their not so plucky. But I shoot one out in the yard about every six months.
They come in the yard looking for cats or pet food. I shot one that was eating dog food out of the dogs dish while the dog was sound asleep 4 feet away. Then I shot the dog because he wasnt much of a watch dog.
I replaced him with a border collie pup. One morning three coyottes had the pup cornered on my front porch.
 
Late summer we always have coyotes in our yard,they dig up the carrots,eat the carrot ,leave the tops :? And eat the apples that fall off the trees...they don't run away when you go out kinda saunter off.
 
Yesterday coyottes chased a whitetail deer right within 30 yards of me. The deer literally crashed through a barbwire fence to run straight to me <I was standing in the yard>. Then it stopped a caught its breath and took off running again.
If you ever ride your horse at night when there is a full moon with snow on the ground its kind of wierd because you can ride right up to those coyottes and they have no fear of you.
 

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