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Home Expert Advice Home & Living Coyotes Present a Serious Threat: Here’s How You Can Protect Your Dog

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By Kristina Lotz
Apr 18, 2018 | 2 Minutes
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With their habitats and food sources shrinking, coyotes are venturing closer to our neighborhoods and homes than we’d like. Not only do they prey on livestock such as chickens and lambs, but our cats and dogs can make an easy meal for these canine natives as well. Here are some ways you can protect your dog from coyote attacks, both at home and while you’re out enjoying nature.

Coyote Vests

After losing their own small dog to a coyote, one family vowed to help reduce the chance of a similar tragedy happening to someone else. Coyote vests are made for small dogs and have a Kevlar neck collar armed with 1-inch spikes and spikes down the back, making it hard for coyotes to get a bite. If you have a small dog, these vests may provide good protection in coyote country.

Don’t Leave Your Dog Outside Unsupervised

If you’re not around to keep an eye on your dog, it’s best to leave him indoors where a coyote can’t get him, especially if you don’t have good fencing.

Coyote-Proof Fencing

Speaking of fencing, you should invest in one that’s solid, at least 6-feet tall, and buried in the ground at least 18 inches, since coyotes are amazing diggers. At the top, you need to put something that will stop even the most athletic coyote. This could be barbed wire or a tube of PVC pipe (its slick, round shape makes it almost impossible for a coyote to grip). You can also create an overhang on the outside of the fence. Finally, you can install coyote rollers, which are 4-foot aluminum rods that spin when a coyote tries to grip them, preventing an animal from climbing over. And unlike barbed wire or PVC pipe, coyote rollers aren’t ugly to look at and are usually accepted by homeowners’ associations.

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Light up Your Yard at Night

Another backyard tip is to install motion-sensor lights that are pointed outside your fence line. That way, if a coyote does come around, the light will turn on before he gets into your yard. The light will make most coyotes turn back.

Pick up Poop

Your dog’s feces can attract coyotes to your property, so keeping your yard or fields clear of poop can help lower the risk of attracting one. They will also eat fallen fruit, so picking up any windfalls is a good idea. Don’t leave trash outside in bags and make sure all garbage can lids are secure and cannot be tipped over.

Coyote Protection on Walks

The coyote vest mentioned above is great for your dog to wear on a walk if you’re in an area where you might encounter one. Keeping your dog on leash is also safer, since most coyotes are wary of people and won’t attack your dog if he’s close to you. Bringing something along that makes a loud noise — a whistle, bell, horn, etc. — is another good way to scare off a lingering coyote.

Remember that even if coyotes don’t attack your dog, they carry and transmit many diseases and parasites, including rabies, distemper, parvovirus, hepatitis, mange, fleas, worms, and ticks. So, keeping them out of your neighborhood is something that should be on everyone’s radar. If you have community meetings, you may want to bring up these tips or suggest creating a Facebook group where neighbors can post coyote sightings. Together, you can keep your dogs (and other pets) safe.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

The coyotes use the bottom land just east of my house as a superhighway and occasionally they take a jog up this way. They got my little three legged cat one day about three in the afternoon.

Coyotes are creatures of habit. If I camp out in the bottom for a few afternoons I'm sure I could leave a dead coyote or two as a deterrent.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Sounds like a plan. A few dead coyotes might drive the others away.

out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State

I live in what is basically a devolopement formed in the 80s. Its about 10 square miles of well spaced homes, with large tracts of open land, a few smalll mountains a lake and river. They prohibit any type of hunting here and as a result, the deer population has skyrocketed. Driving through at night is a hazard and it is impossible to have a garden or landscape, as they inevitably form a raid party and can erase months of work in one quiet night. The only thing that keeps it in check at all is the coyote packs, which have increased due to the surplus of deer. I have encountered the grisly scene, the blood in the snow and signs of struggle, where coyotes have taken a deer down. Never see them near the house though, can often hear them yipping. I lost a rabbit to a hawk, and a cat to an owl, small critters are not safe here, the woods are wild afterall, and will maintain a balance if allowed. If you want to live in the woods, you must play by the forests rules, and risks. It will cease to be wild if you do not. I would much rather encounter a bear or a pack of coyotes, then a gang of illegals on the street. Danger and risk is everywhere.In this I am not trying to diminish your post, I quess Ive just developed a fondness for them, a protectiveness. We hear them all the time, but have only had like four occasions when I've actually spotted one, never a pack, in 20 years.

teabag09

Don't know about your neck of the woods but in the Finger Lakes region, in the 70's and 80's, wild dog packs were a problem for man and beast. Our abodes were mostly 1/2 mile apart(farms). ANY dog seen was shot on sight, no questions asked. Mike

out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State

No, no wild dogs, I doubt they would survive the winters, or the coyotes. I know in the closest town there's a problem with feral cats, but
only the smartest of those survive for long. Our cat was pretty savvy, made it to 13, but the owl must have noticed she was slowing down. We were hearing it hooting for awhile, and our usually busy bird feeder went quiet, then she disappeared. Hungry critters out there.

boatbob2

To eliminate the problem,with deer eating your flowers and veggies,go talk to your local barber,get a big sack of hair (that hes cut) make a hair line,around everything you want to save,POOF,no deer problem, as far as coyotes,My Rotteweiler LOVES them,she says they taste like chicken.They stay clear of our place now.

out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State

These deer are brazen, I've been known to yell, jump up and down, throw rocks. They just look at me like the crazy woman that I am. We've got three dogs if the parcels they place indiscriminately around the perimeter, dont deter, dont know. Have a new dog,, Leif who is giving the chipmunks and such a run for their money, hoping he'll help.