Beagle killed by Coyote?

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Jill

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I walk with my dogs a set route a couple times a day, through a woods and semi-open ground. I have been seeing an really old beagle back there on and off the past few years.
Sunday I found him dead with his entire rear right side torn away and gone, the only other marks on him was a few scraping bites on top his head. I know coyotes are about in this area so I figure he was killed by one or more. Only thing is whatever killed him didn't seem to eat much, just part of his side and tore the entrails out. He hasn't been touched since, as I walk by there twice a day. (no I don't know whos' dog it was)
Don't think another dog would kill him in this manner (and he wasn't close to any road to have been car struck) so does anyone know if coyotes commonly kill a dog in this manner?
 
Coyotes absolutely will attack another canine. Sometimes for food, sometimes because of territorial responses. Coyotes attack and kill both species of fox, and, many domestic breeds of dog also. Not surprisingly, wolves will do the same thing and where wolves and coyotes are found together, the coyotes are the underdogs. A little over a year ago my pet beagle, Bullet the Beagle, was attacked and nearly killed behind my house. $1,000 of Vet bills and a long rehab later, Bullet is over the attack with only a small lose of vision in one of his eyes due to an infection from a scratch that occured during the attack.
 
There have been a lot of beagles killed by coyotes around Central Kentucky, eyewitness accounts. Seems they are protecting their rabbit supply.
 
Not funny if it's your bagel, errr.. I mean beagle being eaten! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
I don't think it was anything but coyote(s). The manner in which the beagle's entire right rear side was just removed and the entrails torn out seemed shockingly brutal. You could see where a large amount of blood had run out and into the ground. The fact that there was only scrapes on top his head lead me to believe that he was maybe held by one while another gutted the poor old dog.
My large yellow lab (91 lbs.) has been out roaming the woods all night many times. He's never came home with more than a few bite marks on him. Would coyotes be prone to attack a larger dog? Or, do they tend to attack animals which they can kill without getting harmed? I am surprised they'd attack a fired up coon hound as most the ones we've had, have been excellent fighters.
I just bought a little Savage youth model 223 with the accutrigger and it shoots amazingly well. So I hope to see a yote in it's sights really soon!
 
the neighbors to our dairy farm have a doberman pincher.. about 2 years ago they had a coyote keep coming down to the pond behind the house and barking at the dog.. the dog would run up to the pond to chase it and the coyote would run back toward the woodline.. this happened a couple times and the guys son watched it happened.. on the 3rd time he noticed 2 other coyotes sitting back in the woodline watching.. (tom) shot the female on the pond [beeep] that evening.. he was afraid they were trying to lure his dog back into the woodline to kill it.. granted a doberman has some attitude but i doubt it had enough for 2-3 coyotes..
 
Had a coyote in the yard last night challenge howling. I had to keep a close eye out when I let my dog, Bullet the Beagle, out for his nightly constitution run. As pairing, mating, and denning season nears the coyotes will become more territorial and dangerous to pets.
 
nightwatchman, no doubt in my mind that coyote was trying to lure your neighbors dog into the woods. Just to get jumped by the others.

Saw that happen first hand when I first moved into my house. Had no neighbors and lots of coyotes. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Watched coyotes gather up and start trying to lure a stray lab into their trap. Pretty cunning bunch they were.

Proned out on my driveway with my rifle and killed a couple sitting out there waiting about 200 yards. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif

A couple of our neighbors have lost their little dogs to coyotes over the last 11 years. They disappear at the blink of an eye..... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Just last year a person riding their horse got jumped by a pack of coyotes, not sure why but the yotes started in on nipping the horses heels and eventually dumped the riders.

Couple of dirt bike riders came to their aid and chased the yotes off...You just never know...
 
I'm gonna start wearing a beagle costume on stand, sounds like it might make things a little easier. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

As unfortunately as it is, the little booger was destined for something bad to happen if he had been roaming around the woods for a couple of years. I'm really surprised he made it as long as he did.

I was just talking to a fella today about a coyote problem with his dogs. Seems his two German shepards get in almost nightly tangles with some coyotes that wander in the yard, so I don't think size matters when it comes to coyotes, as long as there is enough of them to feel brave.
 
I had a beagle killed by coyotes once a few years back.I managed to shoot the coyote but it was to late for my dog.
 
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he was afraid they were trying to lure his dog back into the woodline to kill it..


That's exactly what those yotes were up to. We've had this happen many times with our little fiest dogs we used for squirrel hunting. We've found some of our little dogs bodies as far as nearly a mile away from the house in the woods.
 
This kind of goes along with story here but is somewhat different. Many moons ago in Eastern Washington I raised a female coyote from a bottle sucking pup to maturity. The second year of this pups life we added a male bottle sucking pup to the now growing pack. These coyotes were kept in a rather large pen with wire buried under the ground , top etc.

The now 2 year old female came into heat. The one year old male wasn't old enough to know what to do so we knew this fellow that had a male chow. We figured that might be interesting if they crossed.

We seperated the 1 year old male coyote from the female and the chow into a pen right next to each other. Well this arrangement went on for a week or so and apparently didn't bear any fruit. So we took the Chow back to it's home.

That one year old male coyote dug down thru about 2 feet of hardpack dirt and chewed a hole in the buried wire and was gone. We got a call from the owner of the Chow that our coyote had attacked their Chow and nearly killed it. The people with the Chow lived about a quater of a mile away from us. The Chow weighed about twice as much as the 1 year old coyote did. The people that owned the Chow actually saved it by beating on the 1 year old male coyote with a broom and getting it to leave. They said the coyote was so fast that the Chow didn't have a chance.

I have always been amazed that the little male coyote was pissed off enough to actually go looking for the Chow, and finding it still within the small town that we lived in and taking it on like it did. Must have been really pissed. That , once it was over with, the male came home and spent the rest of his time with us never again trying to get out of the pen.
 
I have only killed one coyote in my life and I thought it was a wolf when I shot it. Thats legal here. I have had several hounds killed by wolves and what jill describes is exactly how you find them. Hounds are generally bit thru the head and then they tear a hole in the flank and start chewing on the short ribs and pull out the viscera. It is a territorial thing most times as they are sometimes not eaten.
 
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Ive had more than one coonhound attacked by yotes while they are treeing.


I have went coonhunting many times and have never had a coyote attack a treeing dog but i could easily see how it would happen, i have never thought about it before /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
We have had three coondogs attack a coyote and we had to break it up and end the coyotes misery. Then all of the commotion brought a ton of coyotes around us. Their eyes were everywere. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif We automatically unloaded on they eyes and we wasted all of our shells. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif They were still around and we couldn't see them, just their eyes. I admit it was fun but kind of nervracking, They followed us all the way to the truck with our dogs.
The next morning we went out and counted 9 coyotes dead adn many more had been hit. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
we skinned them out and got some money /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif
It was a little bit different coon hunting then on, we take a few more .22 shells now /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 


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