Decoy dogs for Coyotes

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MavCurs

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How many guys on here use decoy dog for yotes?I have for years and it is a blast,you almost always get a second or third yote.And some times you get even more.It is amazing that a yote that will spook at your frist scent when coming in to a call will not pay any attention to you when there are dogs present.And you never loose a cripple.See ya Mav
 
I don't use a live dog but I do use a tanned coyote skin on a stick framework with the speaker underneath. I set this out at 40-60 yards. I finally refined the way I set this up about a month ago and I've seen or heard coyotes every time since (may this continue!). The coyotes come in downwind like they're on a string and if I've anticipated their approach properly and set up the crosswind correctly (and the wind doesn't vary), the coyotes' attention is focused on the hide and nothing else.
 
I have a female I am working with now to get ready for this fall for decoy work. She is responding super to commands, to me anything you can hunt with a dog makes it better.
 
I have a 1/2 Australian shepherd 1/2 red heeler. She also is my turkey dog for the fall season. Whatever dog you use in my opinion has to be super intelligent
 
I have a female blue heeler who knows what to do and when to do it,....she is really phenominal,...brains, guts and grit, she has it all.
The male heelers are a little too aggressive, that's why I like the female heelers.
Mt Curr is another excellent breed too.
 
Mavcurs,
what part of AZ are you from? do you run them on any big game? i have a few and love them.
Clint
 
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kates- by Australian sheperd i presume you mean blue heeler right?
COYOTEKILLERMILLER- blue healers are lovely dogs arent they? i agree with you about the males being aggressive though, i still remember the time when one attacked my dad, it bit right through his boot before it got a kick in the head for its troubles... very faithful dogs though, my one just died yesterday... oh well thats getting off topic sorry

edit because I forgot to ask- Do decoy dogs work for foxes too? Only I've got a couple of little Jack russel things that love to come hunting but get upset when I don't take them when I go fox calling as I thought they might scare the foxes away.
 
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what do these dogs "do" to decoy. i still think that a little kick dog would work good for a decoy. but these are biger.

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Foxman the Australian shepherd is similar to a border collie. They are stock dogs like the heelers, they have more hair. They tend not to be as aggressive as heelers and in my opinion a little easier to train. While I am calling mine is playing around investigating when I see the coyote I lip squeek and she will come back to me. The coyote is focused on her and thinks she is after the meal.
 
Sounds like something a nice little terrier would be pretty good at. Nimble and fairly obedient once trained. How close in do you keep your decoy dogs.

I don't know a thing in the world about coyote decoys but just from a dog training perspective, I think I'd teach mine to drop and stay on a lip squeek rather than come, that way you won't draw attention toward yourself and you don't have to worry about shooting your dog, if you have it trained to be steady. Wouldn't be any different or more difficult that teaching a flusher to be steady to wing and shot.
 
ahh yes I know what you mean by Australian sheperd now I think. I've got a dog that matches that description, and we used to work cattle with her father but we just thought they were mongrels (we called them other things that I can't print...).. yes very obidient dogs
 
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A decoy dog will go out to a howling yote,bark at him and bring it back to gun range.I start my dogs very early taking them out on call stands and get then used to all the noise,guns and crippled yotes.With a very good decoy dog the yote will not pay any attention to the hunter.They will come right down wind and never spook as they are locked in on the dog.Many times the first yote will come within a few feet before I shoot it.It is best to try to cripple the first and let the dogs go out and fight it,the rest of the yote in the area will come in and help the downed yote.Then the dogs will bring them to your gun.Once you have a trained decoy dog it is very common to get 4-5-6 yotes at one stand.I use decoy dogs all over the west,and you never loose a cripple.Using a decoy dog is far and away the best method of getting yote out there,I started calling yotes back in the early 80's.At that time you could go out and kill a dozen yotes a day with any rabbit hand call.Now every guy has a tape or cd any most yotes have become very call wise.This is where a decoy dog will shine,yelp on your howler and out they go and back they come with a yote in toll!!!
 
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