How Coyote Hunting with Dogs is Done

Most people don't really know how coyote hunting with dogs is done. They assume that it is a quick and humane death for the coyote and lots of fun for the dogs. NOT SO.  Watch this video:   Download Wp9lR6A4_c0

In the summer, they are trained on penned fox and coyotes. Yes, pens where the fox and coyotes have no chance to escape. The pens are lined with electrified fence that will deliver a strong shock to any animal that touches it. There are tubes  and large pipes that the foxes and coyotes can use to hide in, but these are often blocked before the dogs are let loose so that the coyotes and foxes can not run into them to escape the dogs. There are photos taken by the hunters of their dogs killing the helpless foxes and coyotes outside of the blocked tubes. The pens are used during the "off season", usually the hot summer months.  Be sure to check out the website http://www.coyoterescue.org/  for more info on the use of live foxes and coyotes to train dogs.

The hunters fasten GPS tracking devices to their dogs collars. The GPS tells the hunter where their dog is.  It doesn't control where it goes or what it chases, or anything else the dog does. The dogs are taken to an area where they might cross a coyote track. These areas have often been  baited with deer carcasses in prior weeks. This helps insure the dog will find a track. Once a track is found, the dogs are released to follow it.  They go wherever the tracks go - across your property, across county and state property, and across posted land whether or not permission has been granted by the landowner. Often the dogs change course if they see another species, such as deer or fox and chase that too. You need to know that it is illegal for these hunters to allow their dogs to run on or across your land without your express written permission. If you see their trucks with the dog boxes in the back, chances are, they are trespassing. Get license plate numbers! You can call your State Troopers, Sheriffs, Conservation Law Officers and make a complaint. Chances are these trespassers will be gone before help arrives and they count on that, so get license plate numbers and give them to the law enforcement. Press charges too, or the guys will be back the following weekend doing it again. Make sure your property is well posted so the charges stick!

What a lot of people don't know is how the coyote is actually killed. Teams of fresh dogs are used  to run the coyote to exhaustionsometimes for as many as 8 hours. The guys use their GPS devices to watch the location of the dogs, then drive their trucks to the closest location and drop fresh dogs.  If they  see the coyote run across the road or across a field, they will try to cripple it with a shot to the hip. This is done so that the dogs can now catch the crippled coyote. The "Kill dogs" are released on the coyote and the helpless crippled coyote is torn apart as the hunters encourage their dogs to kill their cousin. The hunters use encouragement such as "Git that Yote, good boy!" as the dogs bite and attack the coyote. Often as many as 6 or more dogs are used to tear the living wounded coyote to bits.  This violent, torturous death can take 20 minutes, sometimes more. When that coyote is dead or near death, the dogs are sent to go find another track. Here is a video to show you  Download 1JfqB_s3pAo  Don't fall for the "this is tradition" defense.  I don't recall GPS tracking devices and automobiles being used by our fore fathers, do you?

Check out the files on this site that are full of photos. Notice that in most of the photos you can see the shot placement in the hind legs, sometimes the shoulder area. The hunters are good shots and are very careful to only wound, not kill the coyote.  They want their dogs "to get some chewing in" as they call it. Watching the scene is worse than watching a pitbull fight, which is of course, illegal. So why is killing coyotes with dogs legal in every state in the USA? Because not enough people know about it and how inhumane it is. These are the lowest of the low hunters. These hunters do not go for the quick humane kill like ethical hunters do. They take pleasure in torturing and maiming their prey. Their own dogs are often wounded in the process, but they don't care. Many of their dogs race across roads in front of cars during the chase- putting human lives and of course the dogs lives at risk.

Do you own property in the country that you don't have constant watch over? There is a good chance that the coyote hunters are using your property for their sadistic bloodsport. Start watching, inform your neighbors and local law enforcement. Post your property well and have neighbors watch for the hunters trucks for you. Get those license plate numbers and press charges. These hunters have no respect for wildlife, no respect for posted property and certainly no respect for you.                 Download Yotehunt004-1

 

Comments

[Kevin S.]

There will be sick sadistic people everywhere in life, they also happen to be the minority but for obvious reasons they get all the attention. This small percentage influences the views of people who may not be educated on the subject, be it hunting, or hell even banking. The hunters in the spotlight here are truly the bad side of this sport and I do not condone their actions.( intentionally wounding, "letting their dogs get some chewing in"...and so on) All that being said, I do enjoy hunting coyotes with dogs, and with calls. HOWEVER, I would never cripple an animal intentionally, and I do not use "kill dogs". We let the dogs run coyotes and if all goes well get in the path of the coyote and make a kill with a gun in the most humane way possible. (and I will be the first to admit that any kind of killing is never truly humane) The thing to keep in mind is that coyotes use the same tactics to chase deer to exhaustion then will eat the deer while it is still alive.( and yes I understand coyotes don't have guns) The increasing coyote population in my area has been detrimental to many small game species and every kill we make helps to protect rabbits, turkey, and deer. I do admit the dogs are relentless in their pursuit and will cross through all types of property but I refuse to enter posted property without permission. The truth is that a two minuet call to a land owner is all it takes and nine times out of ten they want us to hunt their land to help rid their property of coyotes. I just wanted to respond to this article on behalf of ethical hunter everywhere, and hopefully unethical hunters will be reported and punished to the full extent of the law but in the meantime just try to remember not everyone hunts the way this video depicts. Thanks

COMMENT FROM EASTERN COYOTE INSTITUTE: Thank you Kevin. It sounds like you possess some good qualities and truly are ethical.

[Contender#1]

What pathetic, weak, little, lame-ass fuckers are participating in these horrible acts of cruelty?

Please publish names, adresses, pictures etc.

We are very interested in that!!! I´m already in the process of hunting down that fat fuck with the orange cap...

[Mary Pike-Straw]

In reply to Marsha: I am not a "PETA person" but I will have a degree in Wildlife Management in 2012 and I have studied, researched, and had much experience with coyotes. Owners of farm animals that are threatened by coyote predation should be educated enough to implement non-lethal predator control such as llamas, donkeys, or guard dogs. People should keep their domestic animals sheltered for the night to keep them safe and healthy, and maybe you should supervise your children when out in the yard playing. Again, a protective and loyal family pet would be helpful as a alert dog for any predators that may enter your property. If you hunt coyote for meat or clothing, then you are in a minority of barbaric folk, as I don't know anyone who eats canine meat.
As for your concern for rabies, squirrels, skunks, etc., that I am sure come onto your property also, carry rabies, so you cannot solely blame coyotes for the disease.
And you,Marsha, do not truly know if animals have souls or not. None of us do, but we can only hope!
Please do proper research and be formally educated before you entertain us with your "hunter mentality" and your big guns and mean, vicious dogs that you have destroyed by teaching them to kill other animals. Using dogs to pen and/or kill coyotes is no better than running a dog fighting ring, which is illegal.
We "Bambi lovers" will not stop until we stop this barbaric practice, I can promise you that, Marsha. Have a nice day!

[Taylor]

I hope a group of bears would come and maul those hunters and their dogs. Yes, AND their dogs. I hate hounds almost as much I hate their owners...my stepmother owns hounds - they're stupid as f*&^, and constantly annoy the neighbors. It's ashame such a beautiful, smart animal could be used as hunting practice for these waste-of space hunting dogs.

[Marsha]

You Peta people who live in the City and have no clue what the real world is like and where your food comes from need an education in life and history. I bet you don't think twice about where your last steak came from or what your overpriced shoes or the interior of your BMW is made of. I happen to know of several people who have had their farm animals killed and would have been attacked themselves by coyotes if they had not been armed and had dogs to protect them. Further more what happens when they begin to spread disease like rabies? Children playing in yards will no longer be safe, is an animal more valuable than a human life? I support hunting always have and always will. The animal population must be controlled. Use your time and money helping needy people,teaching children to read or stopping crime against humans. Animals were put on this earth for use by humans for food and clothing they don't have a soul. All logic was lost when the movie Bambie was created.

*Note from Coyote Institute: Oh my, what did nature do before man came along to "manage" everything? Coyotes are doing what a good predator is supposed to do. Anyone who thinks otherwise is the "Bambi Hugger" that you accuse others of being. We believe in and understand the natural predator / prey relationship. The same people who condemn coyotes for "killing all the deer and fawns" are the same ones who are saying that they must go out and control the deer population or the poor deer will starve. We were going to save you the embarrassment of publishing stupid comments from the hunters, but then decided, what the heck, lets let the public see the mentality of the guys out there with the guns and dogs.

[Rose Sabbastion]

I watched this video and it is the most horrible disgusting vile thing I have ever seen it made me cry. These horrible people are saying they are sending their dogs after coyotes because they are afraid the coyotes will attack people. News flash these hunting dogs r more likely to attack people than coyotes. Coyotes stay away from humans. u cant say killing coyotes in that inhummane manner is in the foodchain do you eat the coyotes...NO. Every creature deserves to live. What if ur dog killed a chicken its instinct...the circle of life, would u like some1 2 come along and and inhummanely maul your dog 2 death, what if ur dog had dependent pups 2 feed??? Think about the repolsive thing ur doing and think if it is rite???

[mamie mcdonald]

To kill a coyote or a fox with a dog makes these hunters feel like a man. This not a manly thing it is evil and child and wife abuse runs right along with it. %These hunters need to be reported to crimes against their children.