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Gaiz I just shit a brick...
Last month I started finding monster shits in my yard––bigger than dog poo and featuring furballs and all sorts of toppings. Shortly thereafter, my neighbor told me he saw a coyote walking from the street into my side yard, so I've started taking a flashlight with me when I bring my dog out for a final pee and poo sesh, which is at 10PM.
Tonight, my flashlight started dying as we walked down the stairs of the back deck. Just as I got to the bottom, it flickered back on and the light hit this brown-grey shape smoothly making its way out from behind the shed. For a half second I thought I was just freaking myself out, but then I got some eye shine. I've never seen a coyote in person before (except for one time when from my car I saw a rabid one in the middle of the street in a different town) and panicked. I dragged my dog back inside and closed the door. I had read that you're supposed to make noise and scare the coyote away so that it hopefully doesn't come back but when I ran back down the stairs it was gone.
My dog is a corgi, and he's even small for a corgi. In other words, easy prey for a coyote. I'd imagine a coyote would be scared of a human, but would possibly attack a human with a tasty corgi tagging along.
Is there anything I can do to keep them away? Should I carry a big stick at night and stay vigilant? Endow me with rural wisdom.
Last month I started finding monster shits in my yard––bigger than dog poo and featuring furballs and all sorts of toppings. Shortly thereafter, my neighbor told me he saw a coyote walking from the street into my side yard, so I've started taking a flashlight with me when I bring my dog out for a final pee and poo sesh, which is at 10PM.
Tonight, my flashlight started dying as we walked down the stairs of the back deck. Just as I got to the bottom, it flickered back on and the light hit this brown-grey shape smoothly making its way out from behind the shed. For a half second I thought I was just freaking myself out, but then I got some eye shine. I've never seen a coyote in person before (except for one time when from my car I saw a rabid one in the middle of the street in a different town) and panicked. I dragged my dog back inside and closed the door. I had read that you're supposed to make noise and scare the coyote away so that it hopefully doesn't come back but when I ran back down the stairs it was gone.
My dog is a corgi, and he's even small for a corgi. In other words, easy prey for a coyote. I'd imagine a coyote would be scared of a human, but would possibly attack a human with a tasty corgi tagging along.
Is there anything I can do to keep them away? Should I carry a big stick at night and stay vigilant? Endow me with rural wisdom.