[Alas Babylon!]

The problem with this new hybrid coyote is how smart they are, and how much they seem to hate domestic dogs.

Male dogs are extremely vulnerable, as coyotes will use a female coyote in heat to lure in a dog, and then the whole pack jumps him.

They gang up on a single dog, so several smaller coyotes can bring down a good size dog. Someone up thread mentioned two pit bulls getting killed by coyotes. I’ll bet they were chained up and not able to assist each other. Having more than one dog can help even the odds, as long as they can fight together.

[trisham]

I worry about it. We have a six-foot, chain link fence securing about a quarter acre of our back property, and I rely on crows and blue jays to alert me when something is amiss. At one time, we had two RR males who were 96 and 120 pounds, but they are gone now.

These eastern coys are no joke.