Posted on 05/25/2016 7:11:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Milton man chased down a coyote to help save his family’s dog from a potentially deadly attack.
Early Saturday morning, the small dog named Cally was outside in her backyard when a coyote attacked her and opened gaping wounds.
The coyote then ran away with Cally still in its mouth.
Ryan Labbe says his father then chased down the coyote and saved his pet’s life.
“It attacked her first in the abdomen,” Ryan said. “But she managed to get away somehow. Then it attacked her again and went right for her neck, picked her up and ran down the street with her. My dad chased it down.”
The coyote was tackled and dropped the wounded dog, which then ran home.
Cally’s family wants to warn other families to keep a close eye on their pets.
It is believed the coyote was a female with three pups.
Experts say coyotes raising young can be even more dangerous because they are protective, and looking for more food
Noop they are skiddish
Saw my first coydog last week. It was huge and was trying to lure the neighbors dog to attack it. The rest of the pack was hiding in the bushes.
I was thinking animal self defense classes would probably be popular. At a yellow belt, you could learn how to defend yourself against animals like geese or small dogs, but at black belt you could learn self defense techniques against enemies like crocodiles or even medium sized bears.
$5 for 2 ears would solve the problem
The poor dog.
But I am glad its owners saved his life.
I hope he is recovering well.
LOL
OK — I looked again and noticed the dog was female, but I am still glad she was saved and hopefully recovering well.
Not unless cornered. Small dogs and cats beware. They are prime pickings for the yotes.
A few years ago there was a surge of coyotes near my parents home in Morris County New Jersey.
They were trying to lure my parents springer spaniels into the woods, I know what that outcome would have been, so I retained the services of a tracker, the friend of a friend.
His question was what do you want me to track, I explained my problem.
We set off the next morning, the area behind my parents home was very hilly with a lot of rock outcroppings and heavily wooded.
After following him around like a puppy he brought me to rock out cropping/cave area and announced this is their lair. I asked are you shure? He pointed out evidence of bones and hide of deer, small game and what I think was a cat.
Ok, I’m convinced I said. How far in are they I asked he said it’s a cave, big enough for them but not you, what are you going to do?
I said, “fix the problem” and took out two sticks of 40 gel gelatin dynamite and two electric blasting caps, his eyes where as big a dinner plates, I primed the powder and pushed them into the den area with a tree branch, that got some growling, good right place.
Moved off to the left about 100’ with a lead line and touched a 9 volt battery to the two legs, end of problem. The tracker thinks I am Batshit crazy, but cool.
Have not seen a coyote in that area since.
One evening years ago after legal hunting hours for deer was over as I stepped out of my blind I saw something run across the field I was in. I pulled up the rifle, identified it as Wyle E. Coyote and bam. Wyle E. Flew about 5 feet.
Took him broadside thru the lungs at 100 yards with my .300 Win. Mag. 30 cal
Entry hole, 50 cent exit hole. Lucky shot.
His hide now resides on my wall. Big alpha male. Close to 60 lbs
Coydogs are mixed coytes and stray dogs. Some of them do form packs. Don’t know about coywolfs. I have never seen a wolf in south Louisiana.
Keep an eye on young children too.
Depends. If they are very hungry or are sick (rabies or other things).then yes
“Where was this?”
It was in Milton, Mass., the first town south of Boston. There is a 6,000 plus acre forest preserve there (the Blue Hills Reservation) that is loaded with coyote and deer. You see a lot of missing cat signs in the neighborhoods bordering the reservation. You see coyotes or coydogs passing through neighborhoods in daylight hours with some regularity.
They're very intuitive. They only go after people who are stupid and can't spell.
“Since I have moved to MA, i have been warned about coyotes, foxes, raccoons, and bobcats, as well as deer...”
I live in a fairly typical MA suburb not at all far from Boston, and have seen all of these insouciantly strolling through the yard except for bobcat.
Keep your eyes open at all times.
Visiting in the mountains of SW Virginia. First thing a neighbor asked is if we had small animals. Seems that coyotes are a problem here as well.
I used to live in Newton, MA where the police advise banging on pots to scare them away.
I now live in NH where the police advise using rifles.
“Is a typical coyote a danger to a full-grown man?”
No but they love small dog’s and house cats. Allowing either to run lose or unprotected in coyote country is just begging to have them turned into yote scat.
Not likely to go after a man if alone, but when in a small pack, it could be very deadly. Even a loner can be very dangerous.
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