Simon stays at my dad's house every Saturday for a couple of hours while Jane and I grocery shop.After picking up Simon we pulled into the driveway and Simon jumped out and ran through the hedges into our front yard.Before you could even react he was chasing a coyote across the neighbors lawn!
If he hadn't surprised that coyote I shudder to think what might have happened.Heck I'm still shaking.
Yikes! That is scary!! I'm glad everyone is safe.
Don't know where you're at but we have some near the little town where I live here in Illinois! On a quiet night when there's no wind you can hear them for miles!
Hope Simon was bigger than the coyote could have been bad if he was not bigger a vet tech lives down the street said she saw a few coyotes going down our street.We live in the city but there is a cement yard behind us + a creek with a small amount of woods by it. I always have Buddy go out with Patches at night but do not know if he would do anything or not. Now when i had my Bouvier's I knew little Gizmo was safe out in the yard with them.Bouvier's were more of a farm dog where as Doberman's are classified as a working breed.
Coyotes will sure eat a dog & cats if it thinks it can get away with it my MIL almost lost her little dog to one when she lived in Iowa in the country.Keep an eye out stay safe.
Quote from: papbouv on March 14, 2009, 02:05:36 PM
Hope Simon was bigger than the coyote could have been bad if he was not bigger a vet tech lives down the street said she saw a few coyotes going down our street.We live in the city but there is a cement yard behind us + a creek with a small amount of woods by it. I always have Buddy go out with Patches at night but do not know if he would do anything or not. Now when i had my Bouvier's I knew little Gizmo was safe out in the yard with them.Bouvier's were more of a farm dog where as Doberman's are classified as a working breed.
Coyotes will sure eat a dog & cats if it thinks it can get away with it my MIL almost lost her little dog to one when she lived in Iowa in the country.Keep an eye out stay safe.
Simon's the one in my avatar.You wouldn't have expected a coyote at noon in a well populated neighborhood but there it was and my boy went for it.That was a wake up call to be more vigilant.
Doxielady,that was scary indeed!
Kelly,we can hear them in the distance too.Tiverton,RI is weird in that the north end is highly populated and yet head south and you're in the sticks.
Coyotes are becoming more common in more populated areas. I spotted one years ago outside my old condo which was located some 7 miles north of Washington D.C. It looked like a real mangy dog. I know they definitely exist around where we live now, along with black bear. As our wilderness areas get squeezed and development continues to encroach, you're going to find more incidents of typically "wild" animals showing up in your backyard.
Coyotes are typically nocturnal and spotting one in broad daylight is probably indicative that the coyote was sick or injured, and thus that is why Simon was able to chase it off rather than have the coyote turn on him.
My MIL lived out in the country had 80 ace rs of woods so had allot of them around sneaky they try to lure a dog off so the pack can have lunch then they will sometimes mate with a dog also. One reason my MIL moved back to Tulsa she saw a pack of about 30 Coyotes some mixed with dogs bigger than a regular coyotes she lived by herself.Then one had her little dog she was screaming ringing the big bell on the back porch the coyote dropped Saddie,Saddie ran and jumped in my MIL arms.She called the Game ranger they came in and trapped a bunch of them on her property.
Boy Simon is a very very lucky boy that the coyote did not turn and attacked Simon.
We were at the city park about a mile from my house years ago walked my dogs at the city park with some friends a Coyote was hauling _ss back across to some woods across a busy street he made it back to the woods this was in the morning.Guess he forgot the time.
Good Luck stay safe.