I was hunted by a pack of yotes

When a coyote and most other animals run with their tail between their legs, it is normally a sign of submission and not a sign of aggression. Animals that hunt have their tails straight out when they run.
Maybe the sound you were transmitting was telling them another story.
 
One of the most hair raising experiences I've ever had was when I was with a friend doing a walk around of a rural property he wanted to buy.

We were walking a fenceline, BS'ing back and forth about what areas of the grades would make a good building site. His aging female Lab was with us, wandering around.

I happened to glance over and spied the dog, hackles up, slowly pacing toward a lone coyote which was retreating at a quartering angle. I shouted at the dog to come back, but she's a stubborn one.

The hair raising part was when I spotted the 5 coyotes moving - in almost a phalanx formation - to flank the lab downwind. The lone yote was still drawing her attention retreating on the original bearing, which was slightly into the wind so as to stay upwind of the dog. That yote was making no attempt to hide. The other 5 were in full on hunt mode, like Lions on the Serengeti in a Discovery Channel show.

I yelled at my friend to get his dog at hand NOW, while I actually ran (as well as I could; there was snow about shins deep in some places) RIGHT AT the pack of 5, cursing their mothers at the top of my lungs, and generally turning the air blue.

The pack scattered, and when I made the one-man cavalry charge, it broke the dog's attention and she finally returned to heel.

It is a whole new breed of spooky realizing your canine friend is being decoyed and hunted by wild animals.
 
Those 'yotes are on their way to becoming habituated to humans if they're feeding close in to farmer's outbuildings and taking puppies out of the yard. They're probably some what used to humans and if they haven't been shot at before, they wouldn't necessarily equate your presence with immediate danger. You've changed that now, however.:) From what you describe, they weren't actively hunting you, merely responding to the electronic call and the fact that this is hunting ground that they've had success on before.
 
I completely agree with you X-man, the fact that I had deer urine on my boots didn't help my case wither. But it sure gave me an idea for next time I'm hunting, heh, I will pour some deer urine around my caller!
 
Amphibious said:
there are a lot of people on this site that need to get out more.

lions and tigers and coyotes! oh my!
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I guess I could add with my story that we were in the MD of Rocky View, only 15 minutes outside of Calgary. There is a bylaw prohibiting the discharge of firearms, so I didn't have a rifle. Even with a .22 the scenario would have played out much differently.
 
Silverado said:
I guess I could add with my story that we were in the MD of Rocky View, only 15 minutes outside of Calgary. There is a bylaw prohibiting the discharge of firearms, so I didn't have a rifle. Even with a .22 the scenario would have played out much differently.
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Bylaw, shmylaw. It not like those are REAL laws;).

Seriously though, despite the fact that little miss folk singer got eaten in Jaysus, Mary and Joseph Land, coyotes are overrated. They are a little animal that is easily killed (I cornered one in a sheep pen once and punched it to death and I ain't Tyson). When I trapped them, I would use the "body slam" method to kill them: pin the head, release from trap, grab both back legs and in one fluid motion, release the catch stick and swing the yote up in the air and SLAM him on the ground. Sometimes it needed another slam but the end result was a dead prime coyote with no pelt damage.

I lived and breathed the critters for more than two years while researching them. I have a lot of respect for them as a species. They are resilient and adaptable and true survivors. Inherently dangerous? No. Not unless people get stupid and make them unafraid of people and even then standing up to them will make them skitter. Just don't run away squeeking and flapping your arms.
 
sjemac said:
Just don't run away squeeking and flapping your arms.
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LOL! Sometimes we tease the panthers at an animal refuge in Muskoka by turning our backs to them and bending over. When they see you in that position, they charge at the fence, trying to get you. Whether it wants to eat me or f**k me in the ass, I don't know! LOL! :D

But yeah, thats what I tell my neighbours - don't turn your back on one and run.
 
sjemac said:
Bylaw, shmylaw. It not like those are REAL laws;).

Seriously though, despite the fact that little miss folk singer got eaten in Jaysus, Mary and Joseph Land, coyotes are overrated. They are a little animal that is easily killed (I cornered one in a sheep pen once and punched it to death and I ain't Tyson). When I trapped them, I would use the "body slam" method to kill them: pin the head, release from trap, grab both back legs and in one fluid motion, release the catch stick and swing the yote up in the air and SLAM him on the ground. Sometimes it needed another slam but the end result was a dead prime coyote with no pelt damage.

I lived and breathed the critters for more than two years while researching them. I have a lot of respect for them as a species. They are resilient and adaptable and true survivors. Inherently dangerous? No. Not unless people get stupid and make them unafraid of people and even then standing up to them will make them skitter. Just don't run away squeeking and flapping your arms.
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Jeebus. Remind me not to make you angry at any point in the near future. :D
 
Coyotes hunt in packs here in Newfoundland! Of course, they also have wolf blood in them, so that might be a factor as well.
 
When i go out walking my best bud trouble is usually with me, when coyotes see a dog that can fit their whole head and neck in their mouth the head for the hills quick!:D
 
LuckyLuc82 said:
Do they even travel in packs of 7? I have never seen them in more than 4.
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Originally Posted by todbartell
It's known fact that a pack of 7 coyotes will kill and devour every man within a 5 mile radius. Walk careful.

LL82
I am surprized that you have never seen this before eh? :eek:





:rolleyes:
 
Movie rights

I think I'll take the movie rights for this story. LOL..............

If your really interested in a movie about wolves and surviving the wild with them on your tail there is a movie out at blockbuster called "The Canyon" . Many parts are hollywood glorified, but an interesting movie on human behavior and survival in the wild about a couple who know nothing about the wilderness and go to the grand canyon for a tour on thier honeymoon, and of course run into problems.
 
I ran into a pack of them in the York Cemetary in Willowdale one day. I was jogging & with nobody else around I spotted a dog running toward me - I remember thinking at the time geesuz who let their german shephard loose, then suddenly another appeared, by gawd another, & finally a fourth one came loping along & boxing me in, in what would be described as a non-aggressive manor.

Now I'm clueing in & thinking I've either crashed the Littlest Hobo screentest set or more likely that these are some kind of wild dogs.

They're all aware of me but refusing to make eye contact, the lead dog decides to cut in front of me & forces me to stop. I drag my foot real heavy on the gravel path whick causes a load noise & that startles them. They themselves don't ever stop & keep moving foreward up the trail. I turn around & go back the way I came. It all happened so fast that I didn't have time to think much about their intentions - if any.

At the end of the day I think we just sort of met up by coincidence & they were nothing more than a bit curious of this fellow who was briefly running amongst their pack ...........
 
As long as they don't get you in a soft spot like the neck or.... dear lord should I say balls a grown man that's in decent shape has little to fear. sjemac is right about being easy to kill by blunt force. Our dogs often get one cornered in a field durring farm work. They never atack .... just kind of keep them in place. The last one met its end with a sieve adjusting tool off the JD9500 combine lol.
 
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