Registered: Feb 2004
Location: dryden , mi.
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A GIRL HERE AT WORK JUST TOLD ME A STORY ABOUT A GUY BEING ATTCKED BY COYOTES. HE HAD SHOT A 8 POINT BUCK AND GUTTED THE DEER AND LEFT HIS KNIFE AND BOW WITH THE DEER AND WALKED TO HIS TRUCK AND UPON HIS RETURN WHEN HE GOT OUT OF THE TRUCK AND TRYING TO GET THE DEER INTO THE TRUCK HE WAS ATTACKED BY 5 COYOTES . HE KILLED TWO WITH HIS BARE HANDS AND THE OTHERS LEFT BUT NOT BEFORE SEVERLY WOUNDING HIM. HE SUFFERED 35 BITES AND WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT. THIS HAPPENED IN NORTH BRANCH , MICHIGAN ABOUT 1 1/2 HRS. NORTH OF DETROIT. SO DON'T THINK IT CAN'T HAPPEN !

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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Hi plumbg, In a few of my spots I usually here the yotes sound off shortly after my dog strikes a track and in these spots I try to stay as close to her as I can because of the possibility of the dog being attacked, but I have never heard of anything like this before. Wow. I have been surrounded by glowing eyes once last year after hearing the yotes howling fairly close and this year I am sure I saw some more in a different spot when I was squalling a tree trying to find a coon, heard some brush breaking to. They seem to have little fear at night, but a good light seems to keep them away. This poor gut with the deer should take up coyote hunting to even the score a bit.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Warsaw, New York
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Lots of stories going around...I wouldn't believe it till it was proven. I heard it was in Canada. Also heard one where a lady was hangiing clothes up in the back yard and a coyote was dragging her one year old across a field and she ran it down and beat it off. I think a lot of stories just get started, i find it hard to believe a coyote would allow a man to get his bare hands in it to kill it, they are fast ! Take care!

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: SW Michigan-again
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WOW,WOW,WOW-
Glad we are not hunting up there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I heard a story of a young girl who hunted with her dad and anouther gentleman and was told a story about Coyotes and stayed in the truck the rest of the night. LOL,LOL.

Todd

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or are ya leaving the area???

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Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Texas
Posts: 95

I guess anything is possible. But I would think them yotes would go after tha guts rather than the man. I just figure they would want the easy meal. Wonder if it was a pack of "domestic" dogs or a cross ? I know we have more problems with "domestic" dogs here than we do with yotes.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Central Michigan
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I have had a whole litter of yotes hanging around my dog pens for the last couple of months. I have jumped a couple bedded down within sight of the kennels twice this fall, and have heard them fight'in over something within 50-60 yards of the kennels just last week. I grabbed a howler at the back door, and was surprised when they quickly responded.

They are on the short list of things to take care of around the house.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Lumpkin, Ga
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toward PEOPLE here. They do gang up on dogs. Unless Wolf is being bred into them,I dunno. We have some wolves here although the DNR denies it.

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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Terre Haute, IN
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I heard/read somewhere that there has never been a true report of a coyote/human or wolf/human attack. If this is true...which I don't doubt that it isn't...anything can happen....it would be the first confirmed case.

Then again, DNR tells a lot of you there aren't animals in areas where you say you have seen them (mountain lion, bear, wolverine, etc.)

My very first time Coonhunting, I was sent to the woods by myself to get the dogs. I saw eyes all around me, it freaked me out. Now, I don't even care unless I am hunting alone or with just one dog. My dog is what I worry about though not me.

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Central Michigan
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Coyotes typically avoid direct human contact, but coy-dogs on the other hand are a completely different animal. I have seen coy-dogs that were trapped in the Millington area. If you think a coyote is mean, wait to you see your first coy-dog cross.

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My dad works at a military instillation that gets animals caught withing the fences often. They had a coy-dog...or just domesticated dog born and living wild. Man she was mean. My dad lured her into the back cap of his truck after several days then locked her in our garage. He would bring her food and slowly warm up to her daily. It took several weeks but she eventually came around and became a good dog. My guess is she was just a domestic pup that had been turned loose and ended up running with the coys and wild dogs. She bit at a couple of guys where he worked but after she became "tame" she was the best dog ever. She would take off for a day at a time and come back early morning with either a skunk, coon, or muskrat. I grew up wearing braces on my legs and when I had them on, no stanger could come anywhere near me. Cool Dog.

Babe! She died when I was about 6.

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Registered: Dec 2003
Location: nwpa
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i have a coy-dog. i raised her from a pup. and she is the best dog. but she is death to possems, coons or any other type of critter that is where it shouldn't be which is anywhere in her territory.
we have had coyotes attack dogs here, they even took down a farmers yearling holstein. but i haven't heard anything about them attacking people. but my daughter was chased by some on her horse when she was riding at sundown on a desserted road. but i am more than willing to believe that the ones who chased her were coy-dogs.
we have a bunch of guys who hunt them here. open season. no limit.

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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: MICHIGAN
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WE PLUMB YOU KNOW THAT THE STATE OF MICHIGAN OWNS
ALL THE GAME IN THE STATE RIGHT?
THEN WOULDN'T MAKE SENCE THAT THEY PAY THE DOCTOR
BILLS AND LOST TIME FROM WORK THAT SOMEONE WOULD LOOSE
MAYBE SOMEONE SHOULD SUE THE STATE FOR THAT ONCE ? THEN
MAYBE THEY WOULD PUT A BOUNTY ON THEM !!!!
THERE IS WAY TO MANY OF THEM (COYOTES THAT IS) IN MICHIGAN
WE ALL BI**H ABOUT THEM AROUND HERE IN S.E. MICH BUT THEY TELL US THERE NOTHING THAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT AND THEIR
NOT AS MANY PEPOLE HUNTING FOR THEM ANY MORE >NO MONEY IN IT !!!

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Registered: Sep 2004
Location: ohio
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me and my seven year old daughter was hunting last sunday had two come within 25-30 yards of the truck with us sitting on the tailgate one didn't make it

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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: TX
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If you are in doubt as to if an animal (cougar, bear, badger, etc) is normally in your area you can contact the Academy of Science for your state and they will be able to give you a definate answer. As a hunter, I get extremely put out by the science guys that think all hunters are just backwoods hicks. I think that if we begin sharing the info that we obtain (such as sightings of creatures that aren't supposed to occur in our area)when we are out hunting that maybe they won't harbor such animosity towards us. I have found that thanks to some of these science nerds that we (hunters) are able to hunt in more areas. Sometimes all you hear about is when they get an area closed to us. Think about that. To get in touch with the academy in your state search for the initials. Ex- Oklahoma would search for OAS

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Location: Just up the road a piece.
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I was hunting one night with my son and one of his friends and our female got out of hearing on us. We walked a good ways thru a wooded area and came to a pasture field where we had heard coyotes earlier in the night. We got to where we could hear Kate treed thru another section and I sent the boys in to get her. They walked caddie cornered across the field to a fence row were they crossed and entered a section of woods. About 10 minutes had gone by and I happened to throw my light on and there were two coyotes tracking the boys tracks across the field and I watched as they crossed the fence and went into the woods exactly where the boys had went in at. I radioed to the boys to pick up their pace to get to the tree as I felt they might be in less danger with a hound by their side. I waited and heard Kate shut up and figured they had got to her but when they returned they said Kate had come to them just before they got to the tree and there were coyotes all around them. They were glad to go home that night!!

I also walked back to a gut pile one evening after Nathan had killed one of his deers and we had hauled it out. Seems one of us had left the knife. It was about an hour after we hauled the deer out and there were already three coyotes there dragging the gut pile off and fighting over it. I got my Knife and one good coyote hide that stunk worse then the deer/LOL

At one point a couple years ago the things had gotten so bad in some counties that there was a bounty put on them.

I have a large pack of them that dens on a farm directly across from my house. They den in the ground very near a railroad track and I can tell when a train is getting ready to come thru because they will go wild with their howling usually about five minutes before I hear the train. They must feel the vibrations in the ground

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Trussville, Alabama
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was telling me he was checking out a new hunting spot that a VET owned. Said up the guys drive way he had what looked like 4 or 5" fish hooks hanging from ropes in trees with a chunk a meat on them. Said he used them to catch Yotes.
Better make sure them big fish hooks are gone for he turns a hound loose.....



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Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Texas
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From time to time here there will be a bounty on yotes. Its usually $50.00 for a pair of ears.

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