Thrasymachus blog post

Coyote In Heat

Chonq smelled her as we got out of the Bronco. He immediately began ignoring me and tracking her, then he disappeared into the forest at full speed. He can run about 40 mph through dense forest; apparently she could not, and he was on her in about 200ish yards. I'm even slower than she was, so I heard the commotion for about 5 minutes as I made my way over there through the dense growth, all of it in amazing Fall colors that I was somehow able to mostly ignore. He was bloodied a little and he didn't care. He had her by the back of the neck, her face pressed into the leaves, and I'm pretty sure he had already consummated the deed and was just waiting for the hung dog phase to end, and he was still holding her down to avoid further injury. Yup, my dog fucked a wild animal. I am not happy about it at all. I wonder if there'll be half cattledog half coyote puppies in a few months, and if they'll survive, or maybe they'll be vastly superior and take over the local 'yote population. It got me thinking about getting him neutered, but I wouldn't be able to look him in the eye afterwards so that's out. We have been working on a few points of obedience since then, if only for his own safety - I mean, what if it were an in heat wolf instead of a coyote? Either he'd be dead or I would've shot a pack of wolves, and either way that's significantly worse than what happened...