Thanks for all the help guys. We have "the world's largest Yorkie" (about 25 lbs) and a 100 lb German Shepherd that live inside. The GSD is super intelligent would do a great job at tracking, sitting still, etc. but she is about as conspicuous as an M1 Abrams and am afraid would intimidate any coyote that saw her. The Yorkie seems dumb as a post and I have never heard of anyone using them to track until you John. May be a way for it to earn its dog bisquits until I can get a real dog.
I have ordered John Jeanneney's book from Amazon and will read it.
Well, it happened again Tuesday night. We've had no winter yet. Our low Tuesday was higher than our average high. 15+ mph wind out of the south that Tuesday night, so I was trying to find spots out of the wind. Long story short, called a yote who sneaked in across two fences and the highway to come in 70 yards behind us before we saw him. He crossed our wind, but I had sprayed some of Tony's Predator Confidence lure out and he didn't bolt. My buddy shot him with his .22-250 and we both heard a solid THWOCK. Yote went down but got up, spun and ran to the woods before he could put another in him (he needed an "assault rifle" instead of a bolt action). For two hours, we trailed an arterial blood trail that looked like someone had used a watering can to sprinkle for at least 500 yards until the yote left the woods and crossed a muddy cow watering hole. I pointed out to my buddy that if we'd had a dog, we would not only have taken home a dead yote that night, but probably could have made 4 more stands.