Do the Great Pyrenees dogs chase and kill coyotes if they see them?
The answer given by “sfgate” is an absolute line of crap, and this is the reason people who simply like to hear themselves chatter shouldn’t be your source of information. I’ve used Great Pyrenees dogs to guard my commercial Boer Goat farm, poultry (egg) farm, and horse training/shoeing facility for decades. Healthy Great Pyrenees dogs, both males and females are not only capable of chasing down and killing healthy coyotes, but I’ve had to train a few not to chase and take down whitetail deer. If your GP’s are “slow” and “lumbering”, they’re probably either sick, injured, elderly, malnourished, or morbidly obese! Healthy, properly nourished, mature GP’s at OUR facilities are even able to keep up with our Rhodesian Ridgebacks and Border Collies. SO…In answer to your question: If your GP’s are healthy and well trained, they certainly CAN chase and kill coyotes. Mine, by the way, are more lately to take up the chase based on smell before sight. I recommend “experts123” delete the answer given by sfgate on this question. Also, I’ll complete the qualifications section of the Signup form later. sfgate’s misleading answer made me so angry, I had to just jump in quickly!
They could never catch a coyote. They’re slow, lumbering dogs. Every once in a while, though, the other sheepmen and I will kill a coyote that has been killing sheep in the area, and I’ll hang the coyote up somewhere where the dogs can’t reach it, and I’ll let the dogs bark and growl and get mad at it all day long for a couple of days. This reinstalls in the dogs’s minds who they really hate. Your dogs aren’t house dogs at all. They’re work dogs. I love the dogs, but I don’t consider them pets. They’re a tool. They’re helping me. If I take John Boy and Clementine in the house and brush them and curry them and lovey-dovey them and treat them like pets, well, that’s not what they were bred for. They were bred to protect livestock, so I’m giving them their life if I let them do that — that’s the way I look at it. They have to believe that the sheep are their best friends. I had one dog that got ruined because people downtown started feeding him. If you do that, the dog gets spoiled and p
