Look at this little guy. Gnaw your boot right off. I used to think coyotes were pretty harmless, but I think he and a few of his friends could take me down.

Looks like he wanted to play!

What's the story, was it partially domesticated? Pretty unlikey behaviour for a 100% wild one. Details please!

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A lady here in central WA was walking her medium sized dog on a ~std leash less than a 1/4 mi from our neighborhood on a road when a 'family (coyotes don't 'pack', right?)of three' started aggressively circling her and the dog-close-and going for the dog while pretty much ignoring her. She started yelling and swinging the other end of the leash at them (chain?) and acting aggressive back-and got them to break off the attack...
Mid to late winter is their 'hunger time' which drives them to push fear aside and be aggressive-I wouldn't want to be without a 'defense'......


lc

They seem to instinctivly know when you are not armed. We see em quite often at our place. Seem to never see em when you have a gun.

I need to invent an irrigation shovel that has a gun at one end.

Tim

With it's apparent taste for rubber it just might be a graduate of Gump's bump and run.

Now I'm definitely not a coyote expert by any means, but...

Looks pretty healthy and clean and playful for a wild animal, and definitely looks like it has no fear of the camerman. Half educated guess... it's a coyote that was raised by people all or part of the time, or has been halfway domesticated as a mascot by being fed. Or a coyote/dog mix.

From the footage, it sure looks like if the cameraman stopped saying "Hey!" 50 times per minute, that vicious animal would have come in for a kiss and a belly rub and a few scraps from the dinner table like the ones he got yesterday.

Shit I've had girlfriends that attacked more viciously than that critter.

Seen some pretty brave coydogs around moses lake WA. Followed my wife on her horse, tried to get our house pup away for the kill. Called one in with a squeaker to a idling big block suburban. Funny video!

Trimtab wrote:With it's apparent taste for rubber it just might be a graduate of Gump's bump and run.

Oh yeah, if you lead 'em right, they get real uncertain as to which way to go as you close in, and at the last second will roll over on their backs and bite at the tire as you go overhead.

Of course I heard this from a friend's friend. I've never seen a coyote up close myself. And, I heard Polar bears will stand up and swat at airplanes too.

Gump

One of the things a lot of folks don't consider is that ALL the canids, including coyotes, are common carriers of rabies.....

Some of us been through that shot series. Don't need to go there again. I could care less whether that dog's got rabies or not, I'd not let him get that close and certainly not let him touch me.

MTV

Ive had a big golden Brown about the size of a Beetle turn, stand up, open his mouth and spread his arms just like in the movies. The shutter fired before the turn and I only got a shot of his ass. Over the next secound I just watched with my mouth open and forgot to take the shot. After that I thought we should peddle that little Tcraft down the trail. I could see the engine suddenly quitting and that Brown coming to tell us what he thought of our buzz job.