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backyardtndeer

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We were out in the yard this afternoon after my wife got home, I came in the house and my wife calls our landline and tells me she thinks a coyote is on the levee in our horse pasture, and that it just laid down. So I grab my binoculars and confirm it's a yote. Grab my rock river varmint and step out the back door. It's about 175 yards away and laying facing me. I squeeze the trigger with the crosshairs centered on the chest. It flops down. Lights out, so I thought.

Wife and my 17 year old daughter wanted to go look, so they take off walking. I grab the leash and get the dog and catch up to them. She was fatally hit, but was still breathing.

Max made sure she was done. Before anyone says anything, he has had all his shots, and this is what these dogs are bred for.
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I have a Anatolian/ GP mix that's also hell on coyotes around my house. Great dogs.
We had the same dog. Never saw coyotes near our pastures where he roamed. Never saw much evidence of them either. Once he learned how to get out it was over though. He would roam miles away. Re-homed him to a place in Kentucky
 

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We had the same dog. Never saw coyotes near our pastures where he roamed. Never saw much evidence of them either. Once he learned how to get out it was over though. He would roam miles away. Re-homed him to a place in Kentucky
That's part of why I have him fenced in with 4 strands of electric in the yard. It's gotten to where I have to put his electric collar on him when I take him walking, unless he is on a leash. He is not afraid to crawl under barb wire, but he respects the electric fence. He has about 3.5 acres of yard. I need to find him a companion, our old dog had a couple seizures and passed away back earlier this year.
 

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Hot wire would have been ideal, but that would have been about 15 acres 😂. He would climb the 4.5' fence with barbed wire strung across the top. Started when a small section was taken down from flooding and I wasn't aware. Vet of over 40 years and a good neighbor told me once they start roaming it's impossible to stop.
 

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Hot wire would have been ideal, but that would have been about 15 acres 😂. He would climb the 4.5' fence with barbed wire strung across the top. Started when a small section was taken down from flooding and I wasn't aware. Vet of over 40 years and a good neighbor told me once they start roaming it's impossible to stop.
They are smart dogs. My pastures are 4 and 5 strands of barbed wire, with just a small part of it also having electric on extended insulators between the barbed wire. I wish I could turn him loose with the cows, but fear he would roam and someone would shoot him. When he was still a really young puppy, probably 3 months old, he got zapped on the electric around the garden, and he has respected the electric ever since.
 

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