Coyote Attack Pickering

Start walking bigger dogs and the coyotes will take off. I mean i used to have a house cat that would beat up pomerainian dogs. I have walked my dog late at night many times but for some reason coyotes don't go after a 140 pound anatolian shepard.;)
 
Nothing new, other than making it in the news today (musta been a slow day). There are MANY, MANY Coyotes in Pickering. I've been here for over 20 years, I see them at LEAST every other week. Sometimes one, sometimes up to 15 of them. Lots in the Rouge, we sit up on the big hill by the old dump and listen to them chase deer in the conservation area some nights. Very cool in an erie sort of way, you hear them getting closer....then farther, yapping the whole time. I hate to mention it for fear of putting you in a panic, but there are Wolves here too :) . I almost ran one over at the beginning of February while ATVing near Brock and Taunton.

was her dog on a leash?
 
2 or 3 years ago in North York we had 14 attacks in one summer. It got to the point where the city brought a guy in to try and trap some of the yotes..... They were all down through G Ross Lord Park, very dense foliage near the river I guess makes for good hiding spots for them
 
Canadian_Zuk said:
I hate to mention it for fear of putting you in a panic, but there are Wolves here too :) . I almost ran one over at the beginning of February while ATVing near Brock and Taunton.

was her dog on a leash?
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Dont ge me wrong I am not affraid of much. I have a 80lb Pitbull/Mastiff which would rip one of those apart if it felt threatened enough.

Ya I have heard lots of reports of Wolves too, My girlfriends sisters farm in Omemee has 2-3 run across their property all the time. A black one too which would be a nice bit of pelt to own.

As for the girl having the dog on the leash I am not sure. Either way if it wasn't it would be her own damn fault.

Does Bruce County still have that bounty on? I just got my licence and wouldn't mind taking a trip!
 
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Big dogs are better than little dogs but not invulnerable. A single coyote will sometimes engage a large dog in a chase, tire it out and lead it to a pack where it is ambushed. Last summer I saw a very large bull terrier chasing a coyote through our bush lot. The terrier's harness and what was left of him were found a few days later.
 
Claybuster said:
Big dogs are better than little dogs but not invulnerable. A single coyote will sometimes engage a large dog in a chase, tire it out and lead it to a pack where it is ambushed. Last summer I saw a very large bull terrier chasing a coyote through our bush lot. The terrier's harness and what was left of him were found a few days later.
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I would echo this sentiment, If I liked my dog I would not leave my dog alone to deal with coyotes no matter how big and ferocious they are.

2-3 coyotes can take down a typical dog without too much effort,especially if they can trick them into some water such as stream or culvert, one coyote will lead the dog in and another will literally run up a dogs back and drown him. Dogs work well in teams of 2 or more against these guys. It's usually a numbers game.
 
All very true. Wasn't trying to come across as my dog is the most dangerous thing out there and would take down an elephant.

Was basically just saying compaired to a lil lap dog he would put up a bit of a better fight to protect his owners. But also do to our beautiful outstanding perfectly logical laws in here Ontario. He wouldn't put up much of a good fight with a "must wear at all times" muzzle.

You have to be careful they may lick your face!
 
I saw a coyote Monday in daytime, watching traffic at city limits, 10 yards from hwy 24 in Guelph. Back here on the farm, they have gotten into the horse pens, and were eriely howling during full moon Sunday. Time to dig up my rabbit in distress call, a lawnchair, and the .223
 
Trotter said:
I saw a coyote Monday in daytime, watching traffic at city limits, 10 yards from hwy 24 in Guelph. Back here on the farm, they have gotten into the horse pens, and were eriely howling during full moon Sunday. Time to dig up my rabbit in distress call, a lawnchair, and the .223
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Dont forget water, you must hydrate!
 
apu said:
I would echo this sentiment, If I liked my dog I would not leave my dog alone to deal with coyotes no matter how big and ferocious they are.

2-3 coyotes can take down a typical dog without too much effort,especially if they can trick them into some water such as stream or culvert, one coyote will lead the dog in and another will literally run up a dogs back and drown him. Dogs work well in teams of 2 or more against these guys. It's usually a numbers game.
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I guess that would depend on the type of dog, When i was young we always had dogs that were bred for livestock protection.One of our dogs maimed a 2-3 year old black bear so bad we had to put the bear out of it's misery. A good great pyrenese or Anatolian shepard dog would not have much problem with a group of coyotes these dogs can kill a yote with one bite and i have wittnessed such happen many times.
 
We had a dog on the farm that looked like a black lab but was absolutly huge (125+lbs)...could stick his head through the window in my VW Rabbit without lifting it's head. Never barked and was extreemmly gentle with humans but went crazy if another animal was around. Loved chasing racoons and would rip them apart if he got ahold of them. Learned something today about the livestock protection dogs and think that maybe it was crossbred with one of these breeds. Miss that dog! The way he handled big coons it would take more than a couple yotes to make me worry about his safety.
 
Dad told a story about a farm dog his family had in Saskatchewan the late '50's. Wasn't a huge dog - mixed breed, with some kind of terrier in it, maybe 50-60 lbs. Used to tangle with coyotes (one at a time) in the yard where it was lit, and would frequently kill them. For this service it earned the name "toughy". Eventually it was lured out into the countryside and killed by a group of them however. It's not just recently that coyotes are clever.
 
i live in ajax and the local park (hermitage park) has had a family of them living there and they havent really bothered anyone other then killing one cat, we see them now and then and hear them all the time... hope the get a few more cats :p though there has been a noticable drop in rabbits this year
 
Here on the farm in northern BC, we have an abundant population of coyotes. Our outside dog in a 70lb Australian Sheperd/Border Collie X who lets us know whenever a coyote is around and needs to be removed. This morning he sounded off and a quick shot from the .223 added another yodel dog to his collection. The most coyotes I've watched him bay at one time was three but he was careful to stay just out of their reach. Two of the three took a snow nap and the third took off but mistakenly crossed the back field within rifle range a couple days later.
 
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