Just in case this is a surprise two things to remember. LGD have no fear. It was bred out of them years ago. Good ones will not give up on their jobs no matter what. Coyotes are not really that big. They all fluff so they look twice as big as they are.
Though LGD should never work alone. There should always be at least two dogs if they are guarding unfenced animals.
LGD?
Livestock Guardian Dog
Things like Great Pyrenees, Kuchi, most things with “shepherd” in the name, mastiffs. Breeds like that.
Anecdote time: I have a Pyrenees collie mix, and a small terrier. The Pyrenees protects the terrier when they’re outside, mostly from the hawks/owls that like to fly around the fields looking for rodents. But I have gone to check on them before and opened the door just in time to see the Pyrenees barking up a storm chasing off a coyote. I’m confident that a coyote wouldn’t be able to get through my fence and attack the terrier before I could grab something and fight/scare it off, but I know with the Big Boye out there I don’t have to worry about it (but still do, people tell me I Dan leave them out there for longer periods but I keep pacing by the windows and back door to check on them every minute or so they’re out there)
Legendary Good Doggo
That too
I googled it for you. Livestock guardian dog. Have a nice day ☺️
I don’t think most people realize how small coyotes actually are. Depending on the type, coyotes weigh on average 25-35 pounds, with the largest males not topping 45 pounds. The smallest male Great Pyrenees weigh 100 pounds, and can get up to 160 pounds. Those coyotes didn’t stand a chance, didn’t matter he was outnumbered 10 to 1. Imagine the average adult male versus ten five-year-olds. They might do a little damage, but they don’t stand a chance of winning.
Yeah it is not close to an even fight. I even saw a video once of a Komandor ruining two off wolves. It was an amazing thing to see. Yeah the wolves could have taken the dog but it would have taken one of with it. It came down to the fact that the dog didn’t consider being hurt as a problem and the wolves did.
Small or not, they can kill you. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/coyotes-kill-toronto-singer-in-cape-breton-1.779304
Too often women and men forget that you need to kill and maim when fighting for your life.
The amount of times I’ve seen people just roll over and die when being attacked by smaller animals because they don’t want to fight back or hurt it is too damn high.
Right? Bite that fucker and rip it’s ears off. Tear it’s throat out! Bonus points if you can snag both testicles.
There were two though. The other one stayed protecting the sheep while this guy went on a hunt for 2 days straight.
LGD is “livestock guard dog”?
Yep one of the best tools a rancher can own
I have a Great Pyrenees and couldn’t agree more. Not super surprised about killing the coyotes either; my GP is insanely sweet to familiar humans but has a viciousness towards strange animals like I’ve never seen in another dog before. And those coyotes were probably a 1/4 of its size.
Yeah I used to know a lady who had some Pyrenees to guard her sheep. They would spend all night running the coyotes off. Then come in for breakfast and sleep all day while her 2yo would drive his toy truck over the dogs. They would never even raise an eyebrow at her kid. To them it is all part of the job.
I think the additional details make it much more awesome:
Around 2:30 AM, Farmer John Weirwell was startled by a ruckus on his land. Venturing outside, he saw his sheep cornered by 11 coyotes, with his guard dogs, Casper and Daisy, bravely standing in the coyotes’ path. Casper, seemingly to divert attention from the pregnant Daisy, lunged at the coyotes. In a fierce 30-minute confrontation, he managed to take down several of them. Realizing they were outmatched, the remaining coyotes fled into the forest, but Casper, a tenacious 85-pound Great Pyrenees, wasn’t done. He hurdled a four-foot fence, chased, and dispatched a few more. In total, he took out eight coyotes that night. However, Casper then vanished for two days. Initially feared dead, when local residents began discovering dead coyotes, they surmised Casper was hunting the ones that had escaped him initially. He eventually came back, battered and missing parts of his tail and ear. Thanks to John’s quick action and the community’s support via the Lifeline Animal Project, which helped raise $15k, Casper underwent surgeries and made a full recovery. He now enjoys a cozy indoor life on the farm.
Jesus Christ, that sounds like the John Wick of dogs
Great Pyrenee
That’s why. They were bred to protect sheeps from bears and packs of wolves. These dogs don’t fuck around
Pyrs do not fuck around once the threat is proven. They will be as gentle as can be around their wards, but once you’re a threat, they’re going to die knowing you’re coming with them.
Pair up your Pyrs with a donkey, anything that crosses that fence is fucked.
That’s one impressive dog. He more than earned his retirement.
So the farmer stood and watched for 30min, and didn’t call his dog back when he started chasing?
The story don’t say anything about how far his dog was from him. Also, dogs don’t always listen when they have set their mind to something
Luckily for the sheep, they can now be killed by humans instead.
Shhh, in my mind, they use them for wool.
Even then, what happens when its not economically viable to use them because of age?
Edit: Downvotes won’t wash away the guilt btw
Sheep will grow wool til they die. Sheep get increasingly gamey tasting the older they get, so most people won’t eat the meat.
They probably live longer than they would in the wild, right?
They wouldn’t exist in the wild.
Well, that’s ain’t much better now is it?
But how can someone bring life into this world if it’s purpose is just to die!?!?
Homies, that’s the point of every life. It’s why it’s literally baked into our DNA. Our genetics ensure we die on purpose if we live long enough lol.
The how dare my parents bring a life into this world without my consent meme turned into real position is so absolutely absurd lol.
The weirdest part is that it’s mostly first world poors and middle-class advocating for the poor and vulnerable to eugenics themselves out of existence lmfao.
Sorry I was born in poverty in Africa so I guess I’ll just not have children. You had it right all along depressed white folk!
Even better is that overpopulation has been shown to be full on bullshit for two decades now? Yet people still eat that shit up and want them poors to just suck it up and not have kids. How about we make the rich pay their fair share and quit exploiting them.
I hope we reach a post aging world someday, where any adult can choose have a healthy kid at any age. I don’t care what genetics or evolution thinks, I want everyone to have access to a decent life. The cruel process of evolution will not be necessary if we can design ourselves. I don’t want poor people to not have kids, and considering that birthrates fall as average income rises, helping everyone live high quality lives would be the best way to combat overpopulation if it was a problem (which it isn’t).
These white supremacists want to keep brown immigrants from coming to their countries, yet they fail to realize that imperialism and global capitalism is a big reason for both the immigration, and the higher birthrates of us brown people. Shitty conditions, through a variety of mechanisms, lead to people having many kids. More obviously, shitty conditions cause a net positive amount of people to move to areas where things are less shitty. If every county on earth was a comparably prosperous and pleasant to live in, very few people would leave their home countries.
The biggest way to fix things would be to reduce global economic inequality. We need to squeeze these disgusting amounts of wealth out of everyone who has them, while making a world that works for everyone. Killing the poors cannot work, as the system will always produce more of them until only one person remains. Slavery is the real strategy, and all slaves are morally right in freeing themselves. However, we must not fall into the trap of making new owners instead of getting rid of them.
Hear hear my man.
How is overpopulation bullshit?
Most of the countries are already below replacement fertility levels. Africa is the last continent with a growing population and it will not last long.
Eh…
Don’t know what you’re on bud, but maybe you should stay off Lemmy while you’re high…
Don’t blame the player. Blame the system. The farmers gotta eat, man. (I don’t mean factory sheep farms, btw. I mean the kind of open farms we have here in Slovakia.)
It gets sent to a farm where it will… Oh, wait a minute…
Better I eat them than some coyotes
It is morally and ethically wrong to belittle your spouse, but we don’t all fuck sheep /joke
What do you propose then?
What how dare you suggest we kill sheep? Take my downvote you dirty liar! /s
I would think a later death at the end of a captive bolt pistol would be preferable to being torn apart now by wild animals
Oh fuck off.
Pepperdrige farm remembers
An old friend of mine has a cattle ranch. Well he doesn’t, but his family has one that has been passed down from his grandfather. Anyways, my friend had a big-ass pit bull that would guard the cows. Sometimes the dog would come home completely covered in blood, none of it his. He would look like he just had the best day of his life. His tail would be wagging his body, he would be wiggling all over and just so stoked that he just murdered an entire pack of coyotes.
News flash, it was a bus of school kids.
That’ll teach those kids not to walk 50 miles away from school, down a 2.5 mile dirt road, and past the no trespassing signs.
Good boy!
That is the best good boy!
Unfortunately the coyotes got away and the local morgue didn’t have enough space for some of the town victims and had to send the bodies to the next town over. After all it was a terrible afair.
