Mucky_Waters said:
Awesome!! Nah, obviously, not mange. I bet ya the little fella was getting food scraps from their operations outpost there. The closest I could ever get to a coyote, with him quite aware of me, was about 30 foot before the fella would run away, and I have many coyote encounters out here on the farm.
Rabies would definitely be a concern.
Reminds me of my favorite movie scene in Dances with the Wolves where Kevin Costner has met his Wolfy friend, running around with Costner chasing him and the Wolf comes to trip him and they go back and forth, while the native american indians were on the hill watching him, thus the name "Dances with Wolves".
One of my most favorite movies.
It would have been interesting to see the fella pull out a bacon for the fella.
Funny thing, our large size domesticated dogs should be feared more than a Coyote and I am not talking about pit bulls specifically. I have seen the typical domesticated large breed dog kill an adult cow, with the help of a couple other big dogs. They have their tricks to know how to cause a cow to fall over and then the dogs are quick to tear off the cow's ears and other "soft parts". It's quite nasty. This actually happen to a rancher I know and, when the police came to the owner of the dog's, the owner was like "oh no, not my dog", he called his dog, and the dog's face was just covered with blood but, from what I am told, the dog approached quite friendly to them. Turns out, it was his dog and a couple neighbor's dogs that tend to hang out together, which is seen all the time around here. Folk leave their dogs, unleashed, left to roam around until called upon, and, if nice weather, then left at night with their unfettered freedom; so, the dogs find a buddy with a neighbor's dog and then eventually there's a pack of domesticated dogs, which most times quite friendly, but, when they get together with their buddies, then they do stupid stuff much like how teenagers can get, when with a gang of friends, and start making some bad decisions.
I think too many look at a coyote and think " wolf " mainly out of fear, but it is no where near the truth of the matter. Coyote is more like a medium sized dog or sometimes smaller while a Wolf is like a large or sometimes quite large dog. Coyote's remind me of a big fox moreso and I think fox's are more ferrocious than a coyote. Although, I have heard of stories of coyotes taking down antelope (also called prong horns).
Have to be careful with them and have a rifle at the ready just in case.
Still, I think the camera guy in the video knew what he was doing, although I would have my pistol just in case.
Awesome video, watched it a few times, enjoyed it. :cheerful:
