Registered: Dec 2006
Location: Sandy Hook, KY
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have sean dogs killed by yots here in ky more than one time and i am here to tell you they can kill aney hound IT IS NOT LIKE RUNNING YOTS IN FENCE LOTS IN THE WILD HERE WHEN THE YOTS MAKE UP THERE MIND TO KILL YOU CAN NOT STOP IT even shooting in there direction while running your ass off to get there i have sean this more than one time in my life I SEAN YOTS KILL DOGS OF DEE ADKINS HERE AND WE WAS WITH IN 50 YARDS WHEN IT STARTED and we was even shooting at them with 2 nilon 66 and that never slowed then down and it is not a pertty site eather all most like a dam wolf kill you see on tv and dee had one dog that was all most killed a nother time but we got there just in time if the dog would have been mine i would have put it out of its misurey but it got luckey and lived it had like 220 stickes and probley 50 tubes comming out of it ralph dirkeson in morehead ky was the vet that saved the dog ralph also saved the best dog i ever sean unsnaped but she hit a stick running a coon and riped her gutes out i know i did not spell the vets name rite but if aney one would like to check out this storey the vet will rember it just let me know and i will get the vets number so you can call him.the vet has sean this several times and 99 percent of the time it took place in flemming county but the are getting out of controll here as well know but we and others and starting to hunt them or trap them becals most are bigger than your normall yot becals most all of them here are coy,when dogs run yots they run from them but when they come in on your dogs here it is verry different they will kill some times

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Yesterday I watched a video of a guy I work with kill a yote with his bare hands. He got chewed a little, but he did close the deal. [he's a bit of a kook] An outdoorsman I highly respect watched three yotes eat a coon alive while he was out shanging a few years back. Big coon have no fear of yotes and you can tell when ya got one cause they will not climb and they ain't afraid of a fight. Yotes are not the eight hundred pound gorilla some make them out to be. I hunt where they are thick and they don't mess with my dogs and they don't seem to hurt the coon population too much.

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I have had dogs attacked several times and had I not been close enough to break it up mine would have been killed. Coyotes know where you are and how to stay out of sight at night. As David Boggs said, if you are far enough away, there is nothing you can do if they have caught the dog. Remember, this is when hunting a lone dog. If I hear them packing up in a spot I will go somewhere else to turn out. I try to stay as close as I can to mine without walking with them and try to get to them as soon as I can if the yotes are tuning up. In my experience. It's mostly during breeding season that they are so bad. I now use lighted collars on mine, and it seems to have helped.

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I hunt alone almost all the time and I hear them sneaking around all the time. They eat the carcasses up as fast as I can skin them, but they know better than to pick a fight with my dogs. I hunt two and sometimes three males and if they do decide to start something it will end badly for them.

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Seems like they are taken over 10 years ago we didnt have any around now its hard to go anywhere they arent any.old timers say the wildlife com. turned them loose around here to cut down on deer.also hear fox hunters buy them to turn loose.But if something is not done couple more years want be nothing left to hunt but yotes.here theres not anoth open areas to run them with hounds they already call shy so how do you get rid over them.And yea their eating every coon they can catch.

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I dont know but I have seen some big coons put up a hell of a fight with my dogs. Seems like it would be to much trouble for a yote to want one but I dont know. I am sure it happens. As for yotes and dogs I have not had any trouble with them yet and hope I dont.. If it happens I have a 22-250 they cant beat..

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the ones around here go anywheres between 45-70lb.look like shepards.

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I have several friends that hunt yotes. Several of the farmers I hunt on hunt yotes too. I have a friend that has a yote pen. Some have trail hounds some have grey hounds and some have both.
In the pen if you don't have several hounds at a time the yotes won't run. They will stand and fight. They are great at telling how many are comeing and if they can whip them or not. If there is 2-3 yotes per dog the dogs are in trouble. The hunters run 12 or more dogs at a time.
I hunt by myself all the time and we have lots of yotes. Most the time you can here 3-4 packs and 1-2 males by themselves. I have a big black and tan that is smart enough to come in when they get to close and agressive.
I just bought me a HMR .17 and a digital call. Going to thin them out in the day time. ( :

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best way i have found is dirt hole sets with a number 3 just tell every hunter that hunts around to not turn there dogs loose till you pull the traps most land owners is glad to see them gone in the summer here you can buy a nuncess trapping licens and trap them yots year around and there worth more alive then dead i heard but kill them all becauls you can never kill them out.

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IF ANY GETS CAUGHT HERE THEY WANT MAKE IT TO THE FOX PEN.FEW FELLOWS HERE HAVE GONE TO RUNNING THEM WITH PACK OF GRITTY HOUNDS AND #3 BUCKSHOT.

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I just bought me a HMR .17 and a digital call. Going to thin them out in the day time. ( :

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Son I dunno -- you sure you got time for it what with all your message board duties to keep up with? Some poor soul might need a question answered and you'd be out chasing rainbows uh I mean yotes!

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Originally posted by dean mace
the ones around here go anywheres between 45-70lb.look like shepards.

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Son I dunno -- you sure you got time for it what with all your message board duties to keep up with? Some poor soul might need a question answered and you'd be out chasing rainbows uh I mean yotes!

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I'm sure everyone on this post has had their true accounts of what they have seen or experienced and I do believe that what you say is possible. I love coyote hunting and have studied coyote behavior as much as I can. Coyotes in our area do pack hunt depending on the season or area. I have heard of instances where coyotes would take turns running a rabbit around a hill until the rabbit just fell over and died from a heart attack. I know they will also kill deer when pack hunting depending on circumstances i.e. snow depth, ice, how many coyotes, or condition of the deer. I guess I was replying that it's hard for me to believe that coyote would be that hard on coon population. Pack hunting is another thing, but like I said before, coyote's, I believe are more likely to go find easier prey. In ND we have open prairie and not much for trees, so I'm sure it is much different than where you guys are from.
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Coyotes will eat anything that walks or crawls. They eat fruit, roadkill and anything else they can find. If it is edible, coyotes will eat it. And I doubt the coon has ever lived that could beat a yote in a fight to the death.
Thirty five years ago I spent a week coonhuntiung around Douglas Wyoming and killed 8 coons that went over 30 pounds on a scale. They died the same way the 12 pounders died.

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Went out to sight in my scope on my .17 today. Lots of yote poop out there and you could see fer in most of it. Can't say what it came off of but I know coon possom and deer is about the only thing out there. Oh and squirrels. From the tracks around my feeders I would say there are 5-10 in every pack.

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yotes are very adaptable and will eat just about anything from cow piles to left over cattle cubes. i have seen them eat creep feed out of cattle feeders. i would magine reason there are alot of tracks around your feeders is because they smell other animals that been around there. more then likely rabbits are around the feeders too. i would magine that is where they start their hunt for groceries is around your feeders. if times are hard they will eat the corn too.

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