Very Sad

[wudnhed]

Those of you that would, please say a little prayer today for my 3rd granddaughter, Riley. Her 7th B-Day was the end of May and she received an Aussie mix rescue puppy, she was so happy and took good care of Roscoe. Last week was the first time they felt he was old enough to stay outside all night with the 2 older dogs, (they live in the country like us). He came up missing on the first night. Last night a family friend working around the fields found what was left of Roscoe after coyotes finished with him. Not the coyotes fault, they gotta eat too and there are no sheep in the valley right now so they are really hungry. We have told Riley that someone probably picked him up and must have needed a puppy really bad to keep him. Just a little prayer to ease the absence of her friend, Roscoe. Thanks.....

 

[Daniel]

Becca, I grew up on a farm and know very well what the Coyotes can and will do when pressed by hunger. lost a few dogs of my own through the years. Not all that many people live close enough to nature to understand how ruthless it really is. The young and the weak are given no mercy.
My Heart breaks for your grand daughter. Give her a hug for me and tell her how very sad I am that her puppy got taken.

 

[rjwolfe3]

That's so sad.

 

[LEAP]

She'll be in out thoughts, Coyotes are a big worry around us and we live just outside of town. There is no replacing a friend but a new friend helps.

 

[wolftat]

I wish you were closer, I would give her a new puppy. Anytime I am at the ranch in AZ I make sure to spend at least 2 days and nights hunting them, it's population control. I really do detest coyotes and my family had lost a few dogs to them too, until we added a half mastiff/ half anatolian mountain dog to the collection.

 

[Daniel]

When I was in the 6th grade I remember having a horrible summer due to coyotes. We had a large German shepherd that we where always scared would get attacked by them. We kept the dog in a pen at night but one night 5 coyotes came up to the rabbit shed and the shepherd managed to escape his pen. Had I not seen it for myself I would not believe it, but that dog took out 5 of 5 coyotes. the fight was spread out over a long distance covering 6 acres. As you can guess in a fight that big he took a considerable beating, never wanted to have much to do with coyotes afterward, but that a single dog held his own at all against 5 very determined coyotes is something I have never heard of until I saw it for myself. The truth is that was one very lucky dog.

 

[jleiwig]

Around here, a local city passed an ordinance banning pit bull dogs. They dumped their dogs out in the country by my buddies farm, and the coyotes have been getting them for dinner. When we camp out on the farm, they always come around but haven't gotten close enough to get themselves shot yet.

 

[Rojo22]

When I was in the 6th grade I remember having a horrible summer due to coyotes. We had a large German shepherd that we where always scared would get attacked by them. We kept the dog in a pen at night but one night 5 coyotes came up to the rabbit shed and the shepherd managed to escape his pen. Had I not seen it for myself I would not believe it, but that dog took out 5 of 5 coyotes. the fight was spread out over a long distance covering 6 acres. As you can guess in a fight that big he took a considerable beating, never wanted to have much to do with coyotes afterward, but that a single dog held his own at all against 5 very determined coyotes is something I have never heard of until I saw it for myself. The truth is that was one very lucky dog.

Daniel

Your dog probably had a sense of something getting to your family, and that is what drove your dog. I have seen many a small dog, stick up for the family or what was perceived as threat to a family member. Some of those instances have been exactly what you saw, and even with smaller dogs than a shepherd. I have heard of smaller dogs saving family members from alligators and the like. I am glad your dog survived as well. He must have been one heck of a family member!

Wudnhed
I am sorry to hear your granddaughter lost her dog to the coyotes. I hope they have taken some precautions for the other two older dogs.

 

[Grizz]

I feel bad for her. But I wonder lying to her is the best thing? Now she'll miss trust people, wheras your explaination is honest true and does not put doubt upon people's motives.

 

[Gary Max]

Becca----I agree with the stolen dog tale----lifes hard enough.
I shot several coyotoes a year----heck---make that every chance I get.
To many folks around here with live stock.

 

[wudnhed]

I feel bad for her. But I wonder lying to her is the best thing? Now she'll miss trust people, wheras your explaination is honest true and does not put doubt upon people's motives.

Sorry you feel that way but when she gets older and has been hit by life a little more maybe she will be told the truth but for now, I don't know how anyone could look in the crying eyes of a 7 year old little girl and compound the hurt with visions of coyotes eating her dog.............JMHO

Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts!

 

[bitshird]

Becca, get her a Great Pyrenees, They love coyotes, we used them to protect our sheep and goats in New Mexico and Texas, we had one pair that held off bears until I could shoot them.