Coyote Attack

Oh pooh on what other people say.  I, for one, am PROUD of Rory & Primo.  They protected you.  I know how much you have done with your dogs & am proud to know you as a good dog owner & an even better Pibble owner.  They saw that YOU were in danger & took action.  I'm sad for the coyote but that's cuz I'm a mush & I love coyotes & I hate that it got hurt but I'm even sadder for you & your kiddos.  I'm sending good vibes for Rory & ((HUGS)) for you.

I'm so extremely overwhlemed and shaken by some of the responses on here I want to cry.

Whatever the dog, what breed, what the situation, the chances of calling any dog off a animal that has intruded on their property is very slim. Your correct in the fact that the coyote would never seek out and attack two large dogs However when I came around the corner Primo had not yet touched the coyote BUT it was backed into a corner so I'm sure thats why it started lunging. When I say he came after me, I was in the way of the only way out and Primo stopped him from getting close to me. I dont care what Kelliope has to say, I am proud if not shaken up about the incident but that gives you no right to dilute my saddness at the incidnet and point fingers at my dogs for not taking the time to see if the coyote was friendly....thats just stupid and not canine nature.

Are you kidding me? 7a.m., in my underwear with a wild coyote lunging and I was supposed to call ym dogs off? Wow

well, dogs kill animals, that's just what they do. But I don't think the OP should be proud of the dogs- they weren't "protecting" anything, they were attacking and killing a prey animal and ignoring her efforts to call them off. Considering that the coyotes around here make a living dining on cats and small dogs- apparently dogs are much easier to catch than rabbits - it's hard to feel bad about one dying.

shamrockmommy

So Kelliope, as you sit in the safety of your home, tapety-tap on the computer keyboard, what do you think she should have done? 

Well, for starters I wouldn't have posted the whole gory incident on a forum.  I wouldn't have then elaborated on how proud I was of my dogs ripping apart a coyote that WAS trying to get away, but kept being repeatedly pulled down and attacked.  I wouldn't have posted it at all. 

I live in coyote-land. Coyotes routinely kill and eat cats and small dogs. Coyotes have jumped in windows to get small dogs. Coyotes have attacked dogs while their owners were on the other end of the leash.

In golden gate park, a year or so ago, 2 coyotes attacked a pair of Rhodesian Ridgebacks who were with their owner.

Coyotes who live in urban and suburban areas are not very afraid of people. There are routes I do not like to walk Sasha around dusk or after dark, and she's 60 lbs! Chances are no coyote would attack us, but it is not unthinkable.

I like coyotes. I don't mind co-existing with them. But the coyotes around here are NOT shy or reluctant to hunt pets.

And to be graphic, a mile from me is a small nature preserve with hiking trails. It is obvious from the coyote poop that they aren't subsisting on rabbits alone, if you catch my drift.  

kelliope

shamrockmommy

So Kelliope, as you sit in the safety of your home, tapety-tap on the computer keyboard, what do you think she should have done? 

Well, for starters I wouldn't have posted the whole gory incident on a forum.  I wouldn't have then elaborated on how proud I was of my dogs ripping apart a coyote that WAS trying to get away, but kept being repeatedly pulled down and attacked.  I wouldn't have posted it at all. 

No, but you did post to tell us how crude you think we are. I wouldn't have posted that.

To each her own, eh?

Dog_ma

To each her own, eh?

Guess so.

Wow, what a story! I'd still be shaking too! That is just a freak thing, no doubt about it. I'm glad that the dogs seem to be ok. Hopefully they won't require surgery after all.

As far as pit bulls vs a Coyote (or any wild life for that matter), it is no different from a Great Pyr. guarding its flock. It will go after coyotes, wolves, etc. that attempt to come in their territory. They're animals and guardian animals at that. That is what they are bred to do.

I would not expect anything different from the Pits when confronted with a coyote on its property. She did what she could to call the dogs off but when instincts kick in, you can't always control the results. Dogs of all kinds go after squirrels, birds, raccoons, possums, skunks etc. This coyote was no different.
 

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WOW!  That is so scary! I, for one, would be glad to know my dogs would protect me against a wild animal. Who knows if this coyote was diseased or not? 7am and it's still in your yard...? Something was probably wrong with it. Don't they usual hide in the daytime? I think so, at least when they're healthy.

Get well soon Rory & Primo!!!!!!!!!

Well thanks for the support everyone. I still have no idea why the coyote came back after we ran him off the night before or why he continued to hide when I searched the yard before I let the dogs out. We have no food or garbage in our back yard. Not to mention our yard smells like our dogs, what was he thinking?

Kelliope's post got me thinking what else I could have done and there was no way I was going to reach into that fight, especially with the threat of rabies. I dotn doubt for a moment the coyote would have bitten me. He bit into Rory's face horribly

Both of my dogs have had all of their current vaccines but they are getting a booster rabies today. I am so worried about Rory's nose. If you look at the pics at the side view you can see how swollen it is and I wish we knew how deep it penetrated. I hope the vet suggests xrays becasue her breathing has been pretty bad.

I don't think there was anything else you could've done. You did the right thing by not reaching in the fight to grab your dogs- the coyote could've bit you or your own dogs (by mistake, obviously) could bite. There was nothing, IMO, you could've done differently. You tried to call your dogs off, but instincs sometimes are just too strong for commands. You aren't the type of person who would want an animal to suffer, but, sometimes s*** happens!

Hug those pups and spoil em' rotten!

Aurora - I hope you babies get better soon.  How horribly scary for you and them.

Near my hometown, coyotes were a problem, a big problem. I once watched 3, bold as brass, take a sunday afternoon stroll in a multi business parking lot. Good  thing it was industrial type business so there were no people, but where I was there were kids and adults and pets. Pretty bold and brave if you ask me.

They are opportunists, and dogs will do what dogs have been bred to do for centuries, sometimes though that part of our pets is not very pretty.

I wish your puppers the best of sweet dreams and quick healing.

Sometimes you just have to ignore those who have 'nothing nice to say', IMO.