We had sheep out here clearing brush and um.
The first time, the first time the charities
were out in the cul-de-sac was about nine
o'clock 10:00 o'clock and they they did
what coyotes usually do when you come out.
They ran away and that's good.
You know we threw some things at him
and yelled at them and they they were
just typical coyotes running away,
looking over their shoulder and
kind of taunting you.
But still running away right.
And then about 2:33 o'clock somewhere in
there I was woken up by the dogs barking and.
Came out here and Casper and Daisy had their
sheep backed up in that corner over there,
and there's just five or six
of them there at the time.
And Daisy was staying close to
the sheep and Casper was out a
little further out front this way.
And when I got about somewhere around here,
there were coyotes inside the
pan and coyotes outside.
I wasn't.
Like I said, I'm wasn't really afraid that
they were going to attack me or anything.
But they weren't responding.
They were focused on Casper,
I think as much as anything.
And he charged into the middle of them and
killed some right in here and then came out.
They jumped out of the fence.
Some ran that way and some
ran this way over the fence.
And he just came out the fence
here and killed more and then.
They they had a fight all
up and down this Creek and.
It it wasn't a short thing.
It was half hour, you know,
it was a while that that this
was going on and he just.
I mean,
I went out to try to get him back
and try to make sure he was OK and.
Just eventually couldn't find him.
So the next day we thought we could find him.
We thought he must have been killed.
And so we were looking for him and if
he wasn't killed we wanted we figured
he was hurt and we needed to we we
knew he was hurt because we found
parts of his tail and blood and other things.
And so we we were worried about him
and we put out a post on Facebook and
let let neighbors know because we
didn't want we didn't want anybody
to run into an injured dog and.
And the neighbors came out and
helped us look,
and we found more coyotes dead and.
And still didn't find him.
And two days later he showed up here,
back here in the pen and the little
chicken hutch and popped his head out and.
He looked like a he looked like
death and he was he looked terrible.
He came back home and he he just
kind of looked at me like boss just
stopped looking at how bad I look,
just take care of me.
And so my daughter and I cleaned
him up and didn't go to church and.
Him up and went looking for
veterinarians and ultimately it
took a day before we got lifeline.
Once we called Lifeline,
lifeline called up to the to the vets,
it's the emergency vet that they
work with and and said this is a
lifeline case and from that point
on everything was taken care of.
They were great and so.
You know, he's had,
he's had a few surgeries, I guess.
Wound care surgery kind of
thing and I think one of them
they've they've closed up one
of his wounds now and he had
to have his tail amputated and.
At the same time, it's been about
a month and he's looking great
compared to where he was. And we, you
know, there's not much question
about him surviving now.
It's a question of what his
quality of life will be.
And so he'll be able to move around.
He's big and strong and healthy.
We're just, we don't know if he'll
ever be out with with the sheep again.