Ky hills
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We have all descriptions of coyotes here most are average sized but not uncommon to see a real big one. Last fall there was a good sized one around and the neighbors saw it at a distance and thought at first it might have been their German shepherd that is a huge dog. The craziest experience I've had with a coyote was when I still had sheep. One evening I was calling the sheep up to the barn for night, and I noticed a small to medium sized coyote following them. It came right up behind them with me standing there calling them. One the sheep got in the barn lot I closed the gate and just barely did before it went through too. It was within a few feet of me and with me trying to run it off it wasn't. It would maybe circle back a few feet and come right back. My mother happened to hear the commotion and I literally begged her to get the 22 but she had an aversion to guns and was reluctant to touch it. I was literally throwing rocks at this coyote to keep him out of the lot he was that fixated on the sheep and lambs that rocks didn't hardly phase him. Finally by the time she brought me the gun he had gone. It was a ten or more minute standoff with that coyote. Never had anymore encounters like that. One day last fall or early winter we were checking cows on another farm with the utv and one was out in the middle of the field watching the cows. Of course didn't have a gun that day either and we literally ran the utv up to within a few feet of it before it ran and then it would look back like it didn't want to leave. The utv is pretty fast so we finally got it to realize it better run away. Saw it in the woods across the fence a couple times afterwards but thankfully it didn't bother any of young calves.