Sparky, my Miniature Pincher is losing weight but not as much as I had wanted him to. I found out where he was getting his extra munches – the neighbor’s house. I think he has found out where they leave the food out for their dog and he goes over there after dark. No, we don’t have fences to keep the dogs in – no one does here, we live waaayout in the country. If you own a little dog like mine they stay in at night, otherwise they become a snack for the coyotes. One neighbor has hunting dogs and one of them, Annie, use to visit our dogs when she was a pup. Now that she is older she is sticking closer to home. Our other neighbor has a Pomeranian and she keeps a close eye on on that one. They live much closer to the road than we do since we are about 1/4 mile away from them down a private road and our driveway is an extra 1/2 mile long past that point.
May 25, 2008...2:54 pm
My overweight Min Pin
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May 28, 2008 at 6:55 pm
We live right in the middle of town (Portland, OR) with our little farm and we are forever chasing away coons and coyotes! We even had 2 chickenhawks sit on our fence eyeing our chickens as well as a bald eagle! I took the goats for a walk down the street, like I usually do and on our way back a neighbor came out and said we had a coyote following us for 2 blocks! I once had a little ankle-biter dog that got drug off into the trees by two coons. Our black lab we had chased them off, but poor Scruffy was sore and bloody and didn’t move for 2 weeks. We also lost a cat to a coon. All of this in town! So far my goat babies are safe, thank-goodness. I like your blog. Thanks.
May 28, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I live a few hours south of you in the Cascade foothills! Our neighbor has raccons bother him at times and he has 2 hunting dogs. The coyotes are another matter.
The coyotes trick dogs into becoming their next meal. Here’s how they work:
A lone coyote will leave the pack and get freindly with a dog by playing with it. The dog is so happy to have a playmate it will follow the coyote into the brush or field where the rest of the pack is lying in wait. The whole pack will then attack the dog when they have seperated it from other dogs, humans or it’s home.
Many fellow horseback riders don’t take their dogs with them when they go riding anymore since they have seen this happen. There is little you can do to control your dog from horseback unless the dog is perfectly trained to obey your voice without hesitating and very few dogs can do that.