http://www.londoncommunitynews.com/news-story/3832625-aggressive-coyotes-spook-woman-walking-dogs-in-woods-near-kains-road/

 

Aggressive coyotes spook woman walking dogs in woods near Kains Road

 
London Community News

London police are warning residents about aggressive coyotes after an encounter with a hostile pair by a woman walking her two dogs.

On Sunday (June 9) at approximately 8:30 a.m., the woman was through the wooded area just north of Kains Road near Riverbend Road. She was followed by an aggressive coyote that began growing at her and her two dogs. The coyote then began barking at the lady, which resulted in a second coyote appearing in the wooded area. Both coyotes, who were only about two metres away, continued to growl and bark at the woman and her dogs.

The coyotes followed her for a good distance before she managed to get out of the wooded area and back onto the trail. She did not sustain any injuries and her German shepherd and Labrador were unharmed. 

People using the trails in this area are reminded to be cautious and mindful that this area is populated by coyotes.

 



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This is London Ontario btw.  and the second incident that  I've heard of with coyotes.  The first incident two coyotes killed a woman from Toronto while she was hiking alone.
This woman can be glad she had her dogs with her.  Yikes.

That's very strange for many reasons.
First coyotes do not bark, they make a lot of sounds none of which resemble barks of a dog.
I have never heard of coyotes killing a human, least of all just a pair, if the lady who was supposed to have been killed was walking alone how would anyone really know what happened.
Maybe this woman was already bleeding or injured or worst before the coyotes showed up.
A coyote would only become aggressive if cornered or perhaps protecting a den, possibly if injured or sick.
Maybe these are not pure bred coyotes, or not coyotes at all.

One of my male GSD's bred with a coyote once, another ran with them for a year before I found her in a dog pound picked up miles from home.
I've confronted them in the woods and I have hunted them, they come past my home every night.
When I raised foxes they would get caught up in my electric fence and literally scream, never heard one bark.


 

Good points.   Maybe they were crossed with dogs.  Or maybe the woman was calling whatever noise they were making a bark?  I'll see if I can find the other article of the woman killed.

I know that one reason coyotes have survived so well is their ability to co-exist with humans.
Also while they may stand and face you in a situation their very nature (instincts) are telling them to run, not attack.
It's just a strange story, not saying it didn't happen, or perhaps was misunderstood, but it is strange.

In that second story it says there were five or six in that area, this is odd as here they run in packs and are surrounded by other groups (extended relatives) and on some nights I can here three to four different packs in what must be a much smaller area.
Coyotes do take down large game but only in packs and not very often unless the prey is some how at a disadvantage (sick or injured).
If they are starving they might be a little more motivated to kill something.
Fifty pounds would be a large coyote here but they have been found much larger and possibly cross bred with domestic dogs.
They would not cross with wolves, the two or mortal enemies.
Red wolves would resemble coyotes.

There have been quite a few instances of them snatching small dogs in back yards, however, this last case, the lady had a GSD and a Lab, and they still got gutsy.

Yes they will kill small dogs, and livestock, poultry, new born pigs and calves, sometimes deer.
The confrontations with my dogs have always ended up with a chase and they run for their lives.

Funny story,
a friend was losing pigs to coyotes so he brought home a cougar, something these coyotes have never seen or experienced in any way.
He watched and just the scent of the cougar was enough to stop the coyotes in their tracks and they turned and ran without even crossing his fence line some distance away.


 

↵The Eastern coyotes are indeed larger because they have wolf DNA, presumably because they have bred with wolves.

Scientists think these animals are coyote-wolf hybrids that traveled south from New England along the Appalachian Mountains.

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But other East Coast hybrids seen alive or identified by their remains are noticeably larger, with more wolf-like skulls, jaws, and teeth, Bozarth noted. (Seepictures of new hybrid species appearing in the warming Arctic.)

Given this, coyote-wolf hybrids "should be able to do things like take down deer, which a little, scrappy Great Plains wily coyote would not be able to do on its own," Bozarth said.

Indeed, the research highights "just how successful and adapted these hybrids are to the eastern forests," said Roland Kays, curator of mammals at the New York State Museum in Albany.

For instance, Kays's research on the previously known eastern hybrids has shown that a third of their diet is deer—a much higher proportion than in western states.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/11/111107-hybrids-coyotes-wolf-virginia-dna-animals-science/
 

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 The scientific name for coyotes means "barking dog," Canis latrans. The bark is thought to be a threat display when a coyote is protecting a den or a kill.

http://rpguide.soulsrpg.com/species/coyotes/canis-latrans-latrans

I remember the article, but I wonder how the cross would have come about naturally, I suspect man had a roll.

p.s.
roll play guide?
I've heard what they are calling a bark and it's not what you'd think.