2 attacks in the whole U.S/Canada where coyotes killed a human. Peoples dogs/pets kill 15-20 people/year in Alabama. Don't be scared!

The only thing in Alabama that concerns me to run up on is a pack of feral dogs.

Had one barking at me in an open field one time at dark

Most i have seen is 4 at once and every time i see one they are gone. Maybe i'm uglier than i thought. When i have heard them at night howling i always assumed there was a pack together and maybe they are but a couple years ago i was in a clear cut when one started up at dark. Immediately 3-4 responded to that one but every one was maybe 1-200 yds from the first. I could tell where they were. It was like they were just checking to see where the others were at. the first two were maybe 100yds up the hill from the first but those two were 50 yds from each other. Then a 3rd was maybe 75 yds from the middle two. From a few hundred yards away one would assume they were all howling and together but i noticed they were spread out a max of 300 yds from the farthest two.

Several years ago i was walking to a stand in the dark. Saw eye up ahead in the trail and they weren't moving. I assumed a opossum at first. Kept walking with my headlamp on and walked up on a huge bobcat just sitting there on a log crouched. I was within 6ft and i stopped trying to figure why he hadn't ran off. My first thought was he was rabid and might attack but he did not look scared. I took my pistol out and pointed it at him. I guess the headlamp blinded him so i turned the light on me so he could see what i was. He about killed himself blowing out of there.

I shot one hunting once, knew I made a bad shot so I trailed it when I got down then walked up on it and shot it again with another not to good shot low on the shoulder and it howled right in front of me. Like 20 yards away. It sounded like a women screaming and it freaked me out and I thought I had done shot somebody across the creek

You oughta hear the racket one makes when you’re walking up to it in a trap. Always makes me feel like he’s calling in the cavalry.

I had this bastard try to charge me at dusk on a fire brake lane. He caught a 357 goldensaber to breadbasket.

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That's a gray fox isn't it?

Yea he came up on me quickly and kinda spooked me. I’m going to have it stuffed so it worked out ok.

Some of you guys are scared of your shadow....

I've been attacked by feral dogs twice and followed another time. First time was near Moundville and I shot three and beat a fourth with my gun to get it off my 3 year old daughter. Second time was near the State Cattle ranch and I shot one at twenty feet as it charged me, the others ran.

I called one up turkey hunting one time. I was set up off a trail leading to a green field where I had a bird gobbling. Visibility was a somewhat limited in a few directions. He snuck in on me and was about 15 ft when I first saw him. He startled me for a second and before I could get my gun on him he took off. One other time, probably 20 yrs ago, I was hunting Choccolocco WMA and was walking and blind calling later in the morning. I sat down on a little bench and yelped on my box call. All of a sudden I heard something tearing up toward me from the bottom of the hollow. A coyote popped up right in front of me. We both said "Oh chit!". He turned around as quick as he appeared and was gone. Happened so quick I didn't even have a gun in my hand.

I had a pack of 4 charge me in Pickens County. The first 2 got a 150gr. 30-30 to the noggin. The third took one in the chest and the fourth got away.

I was walking in before daylight one time and was walking past a downed hollow log and a damn huge bobcat went running out the other side about 8 feet from me. Scared the crap out of me. Also was bowhunting one evening and had a huge coyote come by too far for a shot on the edge of a big ag field. Got dark and I came down and started walking out across the field and the damn thing started howling and yipping and following me getting closer and closer. Heard another one yip off to one side. Had about a 500 yd. walk and he kept getting closer and closer. Yipping and barking the whole time. Got to the truck slung the door open and turned on healights and that sucker was about 40 yds behind me still coming. He ended up stopping and then ran off. Wonder if he would have attacked if I had a longer walk? Had a buddy wound a bobcat and it ran into some planted pines. He got down and was following blood trail in the dark up to the pines and when he got to the pines the bobcat had climbed one of the trees and it dropped on his back and then jumped off and ran off. Scared the crap out of him. He had blood on his coat shoulder to prove it cause I called bs on it. Also he ran out of the woods without his gun so I figured it really happened.

Y'all don't know terrifying until you have a Black panther sneaking in on you at dark

My son who was about 14 at the time, got out of his stand one afternoon at dark and started walking back to his 4 wheeler. Heard something in the woods walking beside him. Shined his light and there were 3 coyotes about 10 yds away. He took off running for a couple hundred yards, slowed down and shined his light and they were still running right beside him. So he took off again and jumped on the 4 wheeler. They were still right there on him when he got to the 4 wheeler. Cranked up and took off. All he had was his bow, scared the crap out of him.

You don't know terrifying until you have a sniper pin you down behind a crumbling brick wall all night long..
Coyotes are just little dogs. Panthers are big house cats.

My cousin got this on our place in Clarke County a few weeks ago.
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I live in the wild. I get to watch wild animals in their natural world everyday.
Deer have zero fear of coyotes and I know that for a fact.

Never had one stalk or try to approach me. They have always run. Wild dogs are a different story. I've been stalked by bears and mountain lions.