i have a 6 month old basset hound, i live in eastern nc, so not too many coyotes here, but in michigan where my inlaws live, thare is a huge population. The family lives in a rural area close to town, and at night we dont let the puppy outside without one of us, and when we go for walks in the woods i take my .223 because the coyotes are getting really bold.

I think the money for the signs would have been better spent on some traps... or ammo.

Balzack is a 175 lb four legged wrecking ball. I do not worry about yotes killing him but still the diseases that yotes can carry are an issue with me.

you said the key words when you said, "hunting is not allowed". this is exactly whe we hunt animals like coyotes. here in colorado in the town i live in, we have a mountain lion that lives in a wooded area right next to my house. i won't risk my lab to the lion or any coyotes.
does your little boykin really weigh 35 lbs.?

labrador, where abouts in NY? will be heading that way soon.

Just got the weekly paper, lady lost 2 dogs and one injured out of back yard.

Someday people are going to have to come to grips with the idea that not all predators are good to have everywhere.

Labrador I dont think the rolling around was an invitation eighter.Probably more like a trap.Tug Hill though great area lots of lake effect snow there for large coyotes to run deer down.There is also the possibilty of hybrid coyotes there are definetly coyotes in the Adirondacks that are cross bread with Canadian grey wolves makeing a much larger dog.An avid hunter of the Adirondacks myself dureing archery season I have had some large packs run by running deer.A sound like none other when there are that many working together.Hybrids have been taken there and confirmed.A much larger dog!

I have trouble with them constantly in South Central Oklahoma. However, I run Black Mouth Currs and they hold their own and never backdown from anything. My lead strike dog has accounted for 8 copperhead finds and several bites this year alone. I have a friend that runs fiests and beagles and he has had trouble with them. He now puts bells on his dogs, for some reason, this has kept his dogs safe. Either the yotes don't want to approach the sound or it allows him to stay in direct earshot of his dogs.

In the matter of shooting coyotes, I think the old maxim, it's better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission applies.

Blast them and then beat a hasty retreat before the tax collector, aka the police, can show up.

Two years ago my dad took our yellow lab Joe up hunting around Neepawa, Manitoba, for ducks and geese. He was doing a field shoot one morning, and Joe was sitting beside my dad in the blind he had set up. As my dad tells the story, he says that a coyote came up on top of one of the hills (Manitoba is the middle of the rolling prairies, after all) and pretended to be injured in an attempt to lure Joe away from the protection of my dad. Joe clearly saw the coyote, because he whined once to show his attention, and never took his eyes off the coyote. However, he never left his seated position. After about ten minutes, the coyote walked off down the other side of the hills and didn't trouble dad and Joe again.

While hunting deer in west.pa i saw a mama
coyote meandering thru a hollow, very pregnant
her teats almost to the ground.
After reading all these acounts
i regret not putting a round in her
with my 30/06.

I have a female lab that just had her second heat period and I had her locked up in the garage. One morning my wife said look at that weird dog in the yard... I took one look and said that's a coyote! Never seen one within miles of here. Don't know if he smelled the blood or was just trying to get some strange. My dog is over 65 pounds though and she normally sleeps outside it is no big deal to me. Labrayotes?

Wolves are a bigger problem here. They keep the coyotes thinned out real good. I take my older lab to my hunting camp (see photo collection) but I keep a very close eye on her. She can slip through the flap fairly easily and she wants to check every noise out at night. Lots of mice and chipmunks about. Thankfully, she is easily controlled. The younger lab, Opal, is a goofball and I don't think I'd risk taking her up there. The wolves are pretty wild around here. They snatch dogs from porches out in the country but they won't argue with humans usually. Wolves are always close by where I go goose hunting but I don't worry about them much. 3" mag BBs will end any aspirations they might have about dog steak dinner. I don't shoot wolves although most of the landowners wish I could. The way I figure it, if you want to live in the "wilderness" you gotta take your lumps. Don't expect to drag the town environment out there. Once you do, it's a mess. Habituated animals are worse than a nuisance, whether they're deer, coyotes, or field mice.

My black lab had a bit of a showdown with a VERY large lynx a few years back. Boy did she want to get after that guy, but he was dang near as big as she was. She stayed under control until he bounded off with his grouse. Couldn't stop her but he left her in the dust. Or rather the deep snow. Those kittys will stand and spit at a human if they have a bird or bunny. Haven't run into a wolf with my dogs yet but they have crossed our trail many times and kept going. I have never seen them come to a gut pile either. Foxes are there in a flash though. I usually pee around the carcass until I can come back with machinery or help to get it out. Though I have had countless opportunities, I don't shoot wolves. Yeah, they kill moose and deer, but so do those guys in orange and I don't shoot at them either. Wolf kills are anything but swift and merciless but I've seen a whole lot of hunter orange kills that were no better. Guilty of that myself a couple of times.

Big problem around here now is fishers coming into town and taking pets. Five years ago one was in a tree next door (crows that had a nest across the street were after him). I got several photos. They are about as big as a medium lynx and ten times meaner. I'm sure they could take a dog like Pritchard.