Time to call out the Plott Hounds. I guess modern day Irish Wolfhounds are a shadow of their former selves and unlikely to be of much use in controlling these critters.
Most of the other larger breeds which could take them on are probably too slow to actually catch one - I'm thi9nking dogs like Tibetan Mastiffs and related types. Strong enough, but too slow.
Plott Hound packs and hunters with guns to follow them may be the way to go.
Plotts kick @ss!
I have Ibizan Hounds but they're more a small game/deer/lion dogs.
I don't think they'd go after other canids although they did get pretty hostile about a Chow who was peeing on "their" fence line..
[I secretly dream of a pack of Plotts]...;D
Several years ago we came up to SW Ok to (now ex) husbands Uncles farm/ranch.
We got out, opened the doors for the dogs and one (lab, german shepherd, pit, etc. mix) decided to go investigate the cattle and miniature horses. Our other one, a basenji, took out like a bat out of hell in the opposite direction.
She'd seen a coyote while she was still in the car and went after it. She caught up to it as it was loping along and the coyote was so startled it didn't run or try to fight, it froze. I have no idea what would have happened if she hadn't decided to finally mind us by coming back to where we were and leaving the coyote standing there. From what I've read, basenji packs used to hunt lion. They aren't big dogs as she weighed only about 30 lbs and her head came up to the top of my knee or maybe a hair taller. I'm only 5'0". Basenji's can be hardheaded so she continued her chase and didn't come back to our calling her until after she had caught up with the coyote. Our other dog minded immediately and didn't get to check out the livestock til later while under our supervision.
I had a Plott hound in college. Sweet, yet the dumbest animal I've every had; However, its ability to track a scent was amazing.
Irish wolfhounds are quite capable of munching and lunching on a pack of coyotes. One pair here in Florida happened on a pack of coyote on a ranch.
As the rancher told the owner, "Last I saw your dogs (2) had killed some and the rest of the pack was trying to escape. I don't give 'em much of a chance."
That was said as he handed the surprised owner a large package of prime beef. As the rancher put it, calves were safer now that there were wolfhounds in the neighborhood, and those wolfhounds were always welcome on his ranch.
Evidently, the hounds had killed the first few without breaking stride and they kept looking for more targets of opportunity.