Rottweiler Fights with Coyote - MA

[webangel2b]

Steelerfan. Yes exactly, if they don't back down there is something wrong with the animal. I would first guess rabies then distemper.

POOR dog - Let me tie that owner up in the back yard now. Hate people that don't love their animals more then that.

[fostermom]

About a month ago, I heard on the news about a three year old who was grabbed on the back of his neck by a coyote...it tried to drag him off but his family was close and chased it off. Today I heard about a five year old child attacked by a coyote...both in New Jersey. I used to volunteer for a cat rescue up here ...one of the volunteers allowed her foster cats to go outside...she said over thirty of the cats had been killed by coyotes. This is getting scary.

[Steelerfan]

Coyote attacks are extremely rare. Compare the the numbers to dog attacks, not remotely close.

Coyotes thrive in sprawl, they're here to stay. Keep your pets inside if they're not supervised, otherwise I wouldn't worry about them too much.

[Troodie's Mom]

Originally Posted by fostermom

I feel so badly for this poor dog. Being tied up, she didn't stand much of a chance. I lived for a year out in the boondocks of upstate NY...you could hear the coyotes yipping all along the ridgelines, even during the day...I refused to take walks for fear of them coming after me. At the time we had an English setter and a golden and was SOOOOO worried about leaving them out briefly at night to potty. Fortunately, there weren't any close encounters.
Now I live in town and have noticed lately the bowl of cat food I leave out on the step for any stray cats that might happen by has been empty every morning...not so much as a crumb left, even when I heap up the bowl with food. I'm a bit concerned it might be coyotes as last year they shot several living in the cemetary a couple of blocks away. I absolutely don't want to encourage them to hang around my house but also don't want to leave any starving kitties high and dry by removing the bowl either.
If coyotes do go after a pet, does anyone know of a good way to scare them off???

I have two large heavy shovels in Troodie's fenced-in part of the yard,
and a pile of large rocks up by gate. ( I have a good arm but I would only
throw rocks if it came at us)
Waving a shovel and hollering at the top of my lungs, plus Troodie's
infuriated snarling and barking chased a coyote out of the back of our yard
once before. But here's what bothered me the most- the darn thing just stood there and looked at us for half a minute before taking off.
Looked at us like we were crazy!

[Steelerfan]

I was birdwatching once and a pack of pretty big coyotes wandered by, I was sitting quietly and they didn't notice me. They got within twenty feet and I got spooked and stood up. They took off, a big male stopped about forty feet away and took one last look at me.

They're beautiful animals.

[moondog]

Originally Posted by Steelerfan

They're beautiful animals.

Just like lions, tigers, and even hyenas, they're beautiful animals while majestically perusing the environment, a la disneyesque. When those same animals are eating another animal, the same thought does not come to mind. It may be the way of the wild, but it's not exactly beautiful to see them take down another animal.

Coyotes should not be underestimated. They have "street smarts" our domesticated animals can't hold a candle to. That said, why this man's instinct was to desert his chained dog to defend itself and not to beat the thing off with anything he could find in order to help his dog escapes me.

[fostermom]

I'm wondering if our dogs recognize coyotes as wild animals (and potential predators) and would therefore behave aggressively or whether a dog friendly dog might actually approach a coyote in a passive manner expecting a meet and greet with another dog, inadvertently exposing themselves to attack. Someone said coyotes will send out a bitch in heat to lure a dog into the woods so to me that sounds as if our dogs "think" of coyotes as other dogs.

[1rohttor]

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[Steelerfan]

Originally Posted by fostermom

I'm wondering if our dogs recognize coyotes as wild animals (and potential predators) and would therefore behave aggressively or whether a dog friendly dog might actually approach a coyote in a passive manner expecting a meet and greet with another dog, inadvertently exposing themselves to attack. Someone said coyotes will send out a bitch in heat to lure a dog into the woods so to me that sounds as if our dogs "think" of coyotes as other dogs.

Dogs and coyotes do mate, it might explain some of the more agressive coyote behavior.

[AngelBunny]

Once in awhile, I hear the coyotes singing when I'm out walking the dogs at night. Our girls and the foster had no reaction whatsoever I could see when the coyotes first vocalized when we were out walking. I was surprised--I would've thought they'd at least stopped their sniffing and doing their usual to at least look in the coyotes' directon.

Tula will sometimes go outside to stand on the deck (in the fenced yard) to howl with the coyotes. I'll give her a few minutes before going to get her. I'm more worried about disturbing the neighbors than I am about the coyotes tangling with her.

[Troodie's Mom]

Troodie immediately began running back and forth along the fence
growling but she also does that when deer are in the yard. Or turkeys,
or rabbits, for that matter. She only started barking her head off at the
coyote when she turned and saw me hollering. That was her cue, I guess.

[dr0wningless0n5]

a pack was hanging out down my aunts house in the woods down the cape a few years back and they ate 2 of her cats. we went to stay a few days and we had 2 big male german shepherds they were going crazy and sure enough we looked outside and there was a good sized female outside standing behind the fence. we had left the screen door open and one had actually broken into the house at like 3am and got into a fight with my 2 shepherds luckily they were ok and were taken right to the vet the next morning but i guess they my aunt actually found the coyote dead in the woods with bite marks all over it the next day...

[observer]

We are having a lot of coyote issues in parts of the Phoenix area right now, including a couple that have chased after people, which is a bit unusual, and others that have been attacking small dogs. They are very much a part of the environment in certain parts of this very large city, having adapted to it very well indeed.

[jazzking1971]

there is a coyote problem in my neighborhood. A few neighbors have lost dogs to them. I've got four dogs, two Rotts and two pugs and have never had an issue. We have a dog door and I suspect a coyote or two has been near the house because all of the dogs go rushing outside and bark. Sometime in the middle of the night.

All of the people that have lost dogs are folks with only one dog.

[rtwu]

a friend of mine is adament that one on one a rott would take a coyote out
so much so if it didnt hed get rid of the dog
i know this doesnt sound good,but that is why hes not on here ,where only true enthusiasts discuss the breed