Well, not from NC or SC, but my new boy came up from Alabama last Sunday - there were 50 applications for him specifically. I assume there were a similar number for the other dogs that arrived. The rescues in NE do an excellent job of rehoming the dogs they pull from the shelters in the south.
Probably why I canât find a dog. I knew they pull them from the south ,all the shelters here are empty but for pit bulls.
I so want a dog, very sad
Pit bulls arenât dogs?
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If you want a dog make a road trip to Alabama. The shelters are full of dogs. People are trying to give them away on Facebook because they donât want the puppies or the dog was dumped at their house and they canât take anymore and the rescues are overwhelmed. Some are pit bulls, some are crosses but many are not. A friend had 3 dumped at her house but she has already rescued 6 dogs and could not take on anymore. The rescues were full so she had to take them to Chilton County Humane Society. All are young dogs, friendly and not people or dog aggressive. They need a home before euth date! Nobody spays or neuters so there is an endless supply.
Or connect with one of the organizations that bring street dogs from Puerto Rico in for adoption on the mainland. I had a friend who was very active in this. https://www.travelandleisure.com/animals/puerto-rico-street-sato-dogs
Not everyone wants a 70lb muscle bound terrier. Pitbulls take experienced owners - if someone doesnât want one, or doesnât like them, they shouldnât be guilted into getting one.
There are 3 of them in my immediate family, so donât take that as Iâm anti-pitbull. But thereâs a reason the shelters are flooded with them, and it isnât strictly overbreeding. Theyâre a lot of dog.
- standard disclaimer, yes every dog is an individual and you might have a couch potato pitbull. The statements made are general but will hold true more often than not. The high strung, typical terrier pitbulls are either a) owned by someone who knows what theyâre doing so you hardly notice it or b) in the shelter
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I agree with this (as a pit bull owner).
I did smile at @SharonA1âs post because it did make a good point, not so much that people should get a pit bull but that you can not say that there are no dogs, just pit bulls because pit bulls are a dog.
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We recently lost on old dog, and our neighbors have lost several dogs recently. I was use to those little yotes you see in CA. I moved to MT and the first one I saw was wondering through the hay pivot. I really thought it was someoneâs lost dog. My husband wasnât impressed. They are considered pests around here. They donât bug out horses (that I know of) and we have 2 heelers that patrol the property. I would really like to get a larger guardian breed.
We have to worry more about big cats. A horse we have was attacked by a mountain lion right in town. Just rambling.
NE rescues bring dogs from the south because it is widely known that not neutering or spaying in the south is rampant, and strays are a real problem. The NE rescues are saving the dogs and finding them good homes. I have two wonderful dogs that came from Chattanooga.
That is true, and you make a good point; the OPâs prior experience was with a 90-lb Rhodesian Ridgeback that the OP would sic on the coyotes, not with a 70-lb muscle-bound terrier.
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First - you and your horses should be fine. I worry more about a nasty racoon than a coyote.
The coyotes in my area donât go after horses, ponies, goats etc. A 30 year old horse should be fine. Horses donât need to run from coyotes to be safe. Coyotes have other easier prey, like my ducks 
wild rabbits, mice etc. They are incredibly adaptable.
If you want to scare them away Iâd go with an air horn. Or maybe âblanksâ from a gun. Of course everything Iâve learned about âblanksâ comes from TV. 
Donât worry about my ducks, no coyote problems since I got my donkeys. We did have to put an injured coyote out of itâs misery when I first got the donkeys. I think the coyote was used to just trotting by the horses on itâs way to duck dinner. The donkeys had other thoughts.
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They are but I wouldnât want one to guard my livestock. If you get the wrong one it would be worse than any coyote.
We have tons of coyotes. While I have never seen one in my pastures we sure hear them and they are really close. In 14 years of raising goats/ sheep I have never lost one to a predator and I donât have a LGD in with them.
I wouldnât worry about them bothering your horses .
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My husband hung a coyote he shot a couple years back from a tree to test out that theory - it worked! Shortly after the coyote was hung we watched a coyote come near, it stopped, smelling the air in the direction of the deceased - and split. It seemed to keep them away for about a year. The coyotes are allowed to travel on the bottom of our property but if they come close to the house where the chickens / cats and small dogs are they get shot. They seem to figure that out pretty quickly and stay away.
This is hard for ME to believe because I canât find a single documented source. Nova Scotia, a woman was mauled and succumbed to her injuries many years ago, and a woman was bit in Yellowstone (unknown which part) but was not killed.
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I believe the coyote(s) that mauled the woman in NS were found to be coyote/wolf hybrid(s), so not your typical garden variety coyote.
I didnât see that in the articles I read trying to suss out OPâs claim of them killing a woman recently. I read they attempted to hunt down the coyos responsible, and potentially got one, but not the rest. There may have been follow up articles I missed because they would have been more local? Regardless, highly unlikely, what the OP claimed.
I was trying to go after a coyo on my property because when I was on night shift, I would just let my dogs out out night to potty, same as I do during the day. They stick around as long as there isnât anything to chase. On night shift, I caught one on camera near my house several times just before I went to bed or had gotten in from feeding, so I wasnât too keen on the idea of accidentally turning my dogs out with one right there yanno. However it has been coming around less and Iâm back on dayshift, so I care slightly less.
Yes, I know it is an older thread.
I thought of it because just now the coyotes were very close (right in the next field over, maybe 300â away) and singing. I looked over at my barn cat and she did open one eye, for a few seconds and then closed it again. The horses never looked up. My dogs did not react at all.
The chickens did scream âplease come eat me over hereâ, the same thing they did when they saw a fox the other day. Chickens are the smartest, clearly.
My point is - clearly no one here (except the chickens) seemed to care one bit that coyotes were very near and talking.
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We have a very skinny, lone juvenile coyote thatâs been hanging around and getting quite close to the horses, barn, and house. Cats donât seem bothered, but Iâm still worried about them.
