Last winter I was walking my female Dobie here in Palm Desert Ca about daylight when one started circling us. He had his eye on her but she just stood still and rotated as he circled. She was on a leash and her hackles were up. I had a bead between his eyes with my little .380 but knew if I pulled the trigger the cops would be there quickly. He finally slinked/slunk? away. He wasn’t very big but acted hungry.
They keep the cats thinned out here in my neighborhood. They usually leave the intestines and some times the head. They take the rest to their babies (after they wean them from milk).
“Last winter I was walking my female Dobie here in Palm Desert Ca about daylight when one started circling us. He had his eye on her but she just stood still and rotated as he circled.”
I was walking my dog on a trail in upstate NY and met 2 women who were certain that a wolf had chased their dog. I tried to tell them it was probably a coyote but they could not be convinced since it was larger than their dog which was ~20 inches tall and maybe 50 pounds. They were scared and leaving as quickly as they could. I’ve seen coyotes on that trail but never one that size.