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HappyFarmer · #21 10/12/11, 08:54 PM

Vpierce be careful with your single dog and a pack of wolves. She won't be able to hold her own against them. They'll draw her out and attack from behind.
I fear you are risking her life (I hope I'm wrong!). It sounds like she needs an adult partner, at a minimum depending on how many wolves.

HF

Pony · #22 10/12/11, 09:05 PM

I second the suggestion to talk with the locals, find out who's hunting 'yotes, and give them permission to hunt for them on your land.

quietstar · #23 10/12/11, 11:23 PM

Matthew: In your situation, my first reaction would be to set up a comfortable snipers position with an accurate rifle and scope. If you can take out the older Alpha pair, experience indicates the rest will avoid your place for about a Coyote generation. My .22/250 will put a 55 grain hollow point in the boiler room of a Coyote at 400 yds, if the cross wind is moderate and with no risk to your good dogs...Glen

DogDriver · #24 10/12/11, 11:59 PM

I had a similar problem with a wolf killing my sleddogs (he couldn't get at the goats because they where the barn) but he would kill a dog every couple nights, pull them right off the chains in my yard. It took me a month to kill him. I finally did it by getting a friend to drop me off in my barn yard and I climbed to the top of the barn, got into my sleeping bag and got prepared with my 12 gauge loaded with double buck, while he made as much noise as possible to cover my sound getting prepared on the roof. After my friend left it only took one hour and the wolf came out and I got him with the 12 gauge right in the driveway.

Fowler · #25 10/13/11, 08:25 AM

2 or more Livestock gaurdian dogs!!! They are worth their weight in gold!! I had an incident with a coyote attack. And they are sneaky and smart and hard to hunt.

hyamiranda · #26 10/13/11, 10:21 AM

Coyotes are not that tricky to hunt and like it was mentioned, one bullet can put an end to things quite quickly. There are lots of people in lots of areas that are pretty good at hunting coyotes. They are smart and tricky, how else could a population of over 2,000 be living in cities like Chicago, under peoples' noses and 99% of people are not aware of it. Some folks are pretty good at calling coyotes and are often looking for a chance to take out a few more. I will admit, I'd never want to be without a good dog, there is always more than one way to deal with a problem.

"Vpierce be careful with your single dog and a pack of wolves. She won't be able to hold her own against them. They'll draw her out and attack from behind.
I fear you are risking her life (I hope I'm wrong!). It sounds like she needs an adult partner, at a minimum depending on how many wolves.

Great Pyrenees dog. I have been told that their urine smells of bear. I use my female at a friends house because wolfs are coming in eating her sheep, and when I take her over their to do her duty the wolfs don't come in as much. If I had her loose I am sure they would totally stop."

I don't think he's taking her there to leave her to a pack of wolves, it sounds more like he's taking her there to mark the territory. I used to take my male Weimaraner down to my FIL's farm to let him mark the place and that seemed to keep the coyotes away from his place while they'd go right up water troughs at his neighbors. It was a form of prevention because my FIL didn't have a dog and my goats were down at his farm. I had a friend once who lived near a homeless shelter and some of the people would mistake her house for part of the shelter until she got a sign saying "Beware the Dog." Taking a dog to mark a place with their scent is like a sign saying "Beware the Dog" and it will work to some extent.

rabbitpatch · #27 10/13/11, 01:32 PM

Lock the goats in the barn at night until you get rid of the coyotes. I can't have a LGD with my goats either so they sleep inside the barn at night. It would have to be a pretty determined dog or coyote to get inside the barn, and the food around here just isn't that scarce.