KC NoDak Brim 🇺🇸

This spring my 80lb golden doodle got into a coyote den in the green space right in Bismarck here. We were walking in the green space near my house right at sun down…and as always, I let him run loose to chase pheasants and grouse. I lost track of him for awhile and then I heard a bunch of barking…and since we always see yotes out there trying to lure him in, I knew exactly what was happening… I could hear the barking turn more into fighting yip and yelp noises off in the distance while I was running around trying to find them. I’d have to stop running to be able listen and make sure I was headed in the right direction. Finally, when I got farther down the hill closer to all the noises, my dog Kirby popped out of the tall grass about 200 yards away with three of yotes chasing him and nipping at his heels. I’m guessing he heard me yelling and tried to run toward me, but because they were biting at him he stopped and turned to face all three. He pinned down one that bull rushed him and then he bit and tossed another over his shoulder that also bull rushed him, but right at that moment the biggest one bit his back leg and Kirby let out a big yelp. He spun around and bit that one which backed up and they squared up as the other two tried to regroup. The one Kirby bit and tossed stayed lying down, so I’m assuming it was injured. Kirby’s bit spot was right on the top middle of its spine and it also landed square on its neck/head. That was the only part of the fighting I actually saw as I was sprinting down the last stretch of the hill toward them, so maybe 45 seconds of it. I arrived right when he was squaring off with the biggest one. Right as I got there the yotes backed off a little, but surprisingly not much. Then two more showed up as I was leashing him. So now five of them were circled around us, backing off only a little bit when I yelled and kicked at them. Acting kind of like little mini ugly wolves. As we jogged out, they kept sneaking up behind us and from the sides trying to get at Kirby still. And Kirby was still in a “let me at em” mode which made the jog out difficult lol. After about 1/2 a mile of that, we finally got near the end of the green space and near the street and street lights. So the yotes finally dropped back about 50 yards, and slowed down. That’s when I took this video. But they still followed us into the neighborhood and through the park to my front step, just watching us. Some or all of them may or may not be alive anymore. Tamed city yotes don’t act the same as normal yotes so they’re better off dead for everyone’s sake.