Livestock dog saves sheep, kills 8 coyotes in Laurel Ridge neighborhood

decaturish.com ^ | 11/17/2022 | Zoe Seiler

[ConjunctionJunction]

Looks like somewhere in Georgia

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I have had several Great Pyrenees for my livestock.

Thats the classic Great Pyrenees look. Lay there and maybe flop their tale. Next thing you know their tearing the head off something if they sense a threat.

I saw my old male sprint 1/4 mile when he detected a stray dog come into my pasture. That poor stray bastard never knew what hit him.

Their favorite chew toy was skunks that wandered into their territory. They would literally shred them into small pieces.

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When we moved into our current farm, my females banished my big male from the herd. So he wandered around the barn, pens and house. He also decided my new elderly neighbors house and yard was his territory.

One day my neighbor across the street called over to me. He said Reno wouldn’t let him come get his mail. So I introduced them and it was no problem. Same with my elderly neighbors. Pretty soon he was hanging out on their front porch. Then one day the old man died and a week or 2 after that his wife came over and was so thankful that Reno was around to protect her.

Nobody ever got out of their car without her telling him it was okay. If it wasn’t okay she’d let him bark until they left. She always gave him plenty of treats.

[DoodleBob]

A friend has some alpacas and they have killed coyotes.

✓ They make loud noises that would scare off the predators and alert you to danger. If you rear alpacas as protectors, you should learn to distinguish their sounds and know when they are alerting you about a danger.

✓ They also spit at predators. Alpacas’ spit have a bad smell that predators wouldn’t like. This spit also means the alpaca is angry and ready to attack. This would make any predator think twice before attacking or stealing away the herds.

✓ They also walk or run towards an intruder or give a deadly stare. Any predator woud run when it sees angry alpacas charging towards it with an alarming speed.

✓ They also protect livestock by cornering predators like coyotes and stomping them to death.

[Married with Children]

Three weeks ago a coworker and I were on a client site in eastern New Mexico just north of Artesia. He was just behind the facility out in a cow pasture. You can see for miles and miles.

The coworker calls me and says “hey… can you see that object that looks like some sort of an animal way out northeast of my position? What the hell is that??” I said yeah…looks like a camel or more like a damn Llama!
It had stopped and was staring us down…whatever it was.

Finally I was able to squint and get a better view just before it moved off to the north and joined with a herd of cows that were hidden behind some scrub brush.

I asked the guys at the site if I was crazy or if I had actually seen a Llama.
They confirmed that it indeed WAS a Llama and much like donkeys…they are used to protect against predators.

[minnesota_bound]

Coyotes will use one of the pack as bait and when a dog chases after the rest of the pack with attack from different directions.

[Fairhairedboy]

Hundreds of encounters

I walked my dogs for 25 years in Newport Beach, Lake Forest and Huntington Beach and I averaged about once a week coyote encounter so that would be 250. Most were just sightings and I was able to control my dogs but there was a lot of incidents because I rarely had the dogs on a leash.

In Lake Forest I saw a coyote run thru my back yard with what I thought was a teddy bear and I gave chase and I was right on his tail when he dropped what turned out to be my neighbors puppy and he didn't make it.

In Newport Beach, my huge apartment complex had coyotes jumping into backyards and taking pets of all types for a decade. And I love coyotes and I'd only hurt one if it was hurting my pets.

[EVO X]

I saw one while visiting a relative. It towered over my relative’s full sized labradoodle. The Pyr lived next door and often wandered into the the relative’s yard. The dogs were buddies..

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LMAO. We have 16 horses. But we got rid of all our sheep and goats years ago.

After that my Anatolian and Pyrenees were lonely, so we bought a miniature donkey. Those 3 are best friends forever. The donkey thinks she’s a dog.