Hunting or Catching?

They made a good couple of circles and then Buckshot and Traker came back. Sweetpea was still out about 200 yards and we heard her yip, and then all of a sudden she made a sound we are not very familiar with, it sort of sounded like she was caught by something and trying to get loose. Like a very distressed choppy bay.

James put two dogs on the ground to go to her in case she was fighting a hog or something. The dogs head her way quickly. We shinned the spotlight in her direction and we see her eyes in the light. She was booking it back towards us really fast. The dogs that we sent to her were working the area that she just came from. She is a seasoned hog dog. She doesn't run from hogs.

She got back to us, we checked her real good for injuries and didn't find anything. She was big eyed and panting hard. The other dogs eventually came back to us also. We were scratching our heads over this.

At the end of the night when we got home, and were putting dogs up, one of our male dogs that was running loose tried to mount Sweetpea. Its about time for her to start coming into heat.

I wonder it her strange encounter was maybe with a male coyote who caught her scent.
[/quote] we had the samething happen last night we were on a runner and there were alot of yotes around as well. My buddies dog trigger just sat down at 800 yards and wouldn't move. Thought he was caught but go there and hes just standing on a hill in some brush and won't move. Had to pick him up and carry him out a ways before he would walk then he ran to the wheelers. Thinking one of those yotes may have scares him or something cuz they were close!