Natural History

Posted in working dogs | Tagged coyote, Komondor | 5 Comments

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1. on September 29, 2012 at 5:47 am Peter Dawson

   and the next picture shows…?

   
   
   • on September 29, 2012 at 9:19 am retrieverman

     There is no next picture.

     These livestock guardian dogs are a nonlethal way of keeping coyotes out of sheep.

     Of course, there are some of these dogs that do kill coyotes.

     And it’s not just that sort of dog.

     I bet more dogs in this country kill coyotes than the other way around.

     The two animals might be able to reproduce, but there is a deep antipathy that exists between them.

     Even very nice dogs that love to play with other dogs hate coyotes.

     I have no idea what it is.

     Maybe their body language is just off enough to elicit that sort of response.

     
     
2. on September 29, 2012 at 11:25 am Suhail

   Oh yes the beautiful ‘Mop Dog’, one of the 3 that I know (others being Pulik and Bargamascos). The only reason why I don’t have a Komondor is that there were no breeders in Ontario. There is at least one now. Recent acquisition by Dave of Pvael suggests that I could have gotten one flown in at least from BC though.

   Btw, the farmers in Ontario who I know advise that LGDs in Ontario are primarily deterrents and not exterminators of coyotes. They fight and chase coyotes only through a certain patrol area and then give up the chase.

   
   
3. on September 29, 2012 at 12:47 pm massugu

   I would assume that the coyote is getting nothing but a mouthful of hair?

   
   
4. on September 29, 2012 at 5:38 pm kittenz

   My GSD will practically tear her toenails off to chase coyotes off the property. She doesn’t try to run them down and kill them once they have left my smallish (15 acre) holding, but when she sees them, she fiercely informs them that they are canina non grata, and then patrols all night to make sure they don’t return. She just seems to have a built-in dislike of coyotes. But the litter of wolf-hybrids that I raised a few years back were accepted as junior members of my shepherd “PACK” (at the time, two adult neutered males) without incident.

   
   

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