COYOTE? You thought it was a coyote? What the ##$$%%%$

There are so many people that just don't know a dog from a BIRD.  We also have a coyote problem, where they are now coming into our yards and grabbing small dogs and cats. 

Ther are lots of people who do not know much in the way of wildlife, but it seems as if just about anyone should know what a Golden Retriever looks like.

I wasn't there so I shouldn't judge. But how the heck would you make that mistake?  We have a few coyotes.  When I walk the dogs in the wee hours their eyes will glow when I shine the flashlight toward them.  Once we get close they just slip into the woods.  Maybe I am lucky they have never bothered us.

April, the world is populated with stupid people.  Look at the number of hunters that shoot each other every year, mistaking a fellow hunter for a deer.  Last time I looked deer didn't wear flash orange.  Glad the dog is going to be OK but geez, what an awful thing for her to go through.  Make sure you wear flash orange when you walk your dogs, maybe make them little vests so they too can be seen.  But as I've said, hunters apparently don't see that color.  Maybe flashing light collars would work.  Who knows what goes through the minds of the trigger happy.

Some people get a gun in their hand and are so excited they'll shoot most anything. These people are not true hunters. A real hunter spends more time tracking their prey and learning the prey's habits than s/he does shooting.

April - How in heck could you ever mistake a Golden for a Coyote? I introduced Saffy, my beautiful aussie girl. I have always been fearful of hunters mistaking her for a coyote. She runs our property which is surrounded by more. All it would take is 1 idiot to think she is their prey - I am glad that the pup is going to be okay. Your Symba look like a honey.  

Geeeze...although we haven't had any fatalities, either by coyotes or by drunk hunters, it is always a scare and my dog like yours only goes out of her fenced area, if we are walking her. So glad to hear the golden was O.K.  Was the man arrrested? 

We have coyotes in our area too, and a neighbor that likes to take pot shots at anything that moves in the woods.  I have already been less than lady-like with this fool - now he has to make a choice ... whether to continue his exhibition of neanderthal behavior or risk my wrath.  Last I knew ... he's still thinking it over.

Arpil,

I would fear a neighbor who had a gun and could not readily identify a coyote versus a dog of any breed.  That is very scary!

Ann Hayden wondering why some people shot before they know what they are shooting at

Glad he was arrested! and I'm glad your dog was not involved. She's adorable!

We had a neighbor, last weekend, start shooting in the middle of the night because he thought there were IRAQIES in his yard. Coyotes, Iraqies, I definately think there is some substance abuse going on. That's terrible about the dog.

April - That is very scary!