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By Tiffany Chan, WBZ via CNN Newsource
Published: Dec. 29, 2023 at 3:04 PM CST

BOSTON (WBZ) – Two Dalmatians had their instincts kick in when they and their dog walker were surrounded by coyotes Wednesday in Boston.

Dog walker Josstin Lantadilla was out for a nighttime walk with two Dalmatians, Deanna and Tasha, near a Brighton apartment complex.

“Deanna got very upset, and she looked up, jumped backward, and I said, ‘What’s wrong with her?’” Lantadilla said.

Deanna’s barking alerted Lantadilla to look backward. Turns out, a pack of four coyotes was quietly lurking behind them.

“So when I look at the back, I just saw them, I never realized there were four coyotes behind me,” he said.

The coyotes were bold and lunged at the leashed Dalmatians.

Lantadilla said Deanna bit one of the coyotes in the neck, which convinced the pack to run away.

Jane Friedlander, the dogs’ owner, said she is not surprised that her dogs acted so bravely. She said this isn’t the first time her dogs have been targeted by coyotes.

Lantadilla and the dogs were unharmed, and their owner is crediting their breed.

“They’re meant to drive away coyotes, wolves, foxes, rabbits, anything that would bother a stable or horses,” Friedlander said.

There’s no doubt in the dog walker’s mind that the two dogs were looking out for him that night.

“Of course, they were meant for that,” he said.

I always thought the were bred to ride in fire trucks, lol.

Heart warming story. Dogs are the best.

This fellow (Elvis) was a great dog! If anyone was a threat to my wife of daughters, he would have protected them to his death.
BTW, Dals got aligned with the fire dept. when horses pulled fire engines. Horses wouldn't go to a fire and the Dals ran at their heels making them go.

Dalmatians and a 9mm sidearm would cure that problem. Don’t leave home without it!

Ron

They weren't bred as protection dogs, and they've strayed far from their working roots. Most I've been around were inbred retards.

But the bedtime story in the OP is heartwarming.

Yeah, neat as hell dog when they're right. But hard to find one that doesn't have problems.

^^^. My buddy had one. Stupidest dog I’ve ever been around.

The principal of the middle school I went to had a Dalmatian, and took him to work everyday. He mainly stayed in his office. Dog was vicious and unstable, frequently snarling at students that came into his office. Not that this is characteristic of the breed, but that's my only experience with them.

What happened to the herd of wetbacks the coyotes were escorting?

My son’s grandparents had a Dalmatian. The dog was snappy, not overly bright, and was on meds for grass allergies. I didn’t know that was a thing but apparently it is.

It wasn’t a great dog by any means IMO but they liked him. Fighting off a pack of coyotes is cool. Its not what I would have expected from the example of one that I was around though. It had zero prey drive or working dog instincts.

Those dogs just did what any dog worth a sh*t would have.

My parents' toy poodle was ready to go all Kung Fu on a bison bull that was blocking the road at Yellowstone- - - -good thing he couldn't get through the windshield on their motorhome!

It's a heartwarming tale. If you buy the story the ESL dude with the earring and ear muffs and paddington bear chick are selling.

My dad had a Dalmatian when he was a kid. He named the pup "Dot" and he told me it was the craziest dog he had ever seen in his life. That was back in the early 40s.

Yep.

A pyranees was in order or a kangal.

https://www.newsweek.com/great-pyrenees-who-fought-off-11-coyotes-award-1851042

According to Rodriguez the English as a second language professional dog walker…

He’s conveniently sporting a fresh looking “World Dog Show Brazil 2022” hat for the news interview😂

Supposedly he was walking two Dalmatians on 6’ leashes through an upscale subdivision when out of the blue a pack of killer coyotes charged out and attacked him at kicking distance until the leashed Dalmatians counterattacked the four coyotes. The dog walker then kicked a coyote as one of the Dalmatians thrashed another coyote by the neck without a scratch or a bite wound on the dog or any other evidence that it ever happened. Anything could happen but that doesn’t seem likely.

It’s more likely that he’s trying to cash in with a job offer or as the next dog whisperer through media attention.

Dollars to doughnuts the crazy dog owner lady mentioned that she believed a pack of coyotes were stalking her dogs and he decided to run with it.


It’s easy to see why they believe that Americans are gullible and that America is the land of opportunity. All that’s needed is a self promoting wetback with enough English to retell a basic Rin Tin Tin storyline.

I guess them Yankees ain’t got guns or a cow on the place. What’s this world coming too! Good thing they got dogs.

Yep - they are 'tards

Ditto, 100%.

Pretty tho. Wasn 't mean. Lumpish, really.

How about an Irish Wolf Hound ??

Greyhounds were bred for it- before round tracks, anyway.

Sounds good, sounds just like some kind of bs msm story. One coyote outta 4 takes a swipe? Don't sound like a pack attack. Where is the blurb that local wildlife leo's hunted the pack down the next day? Blah , blah still sounds like bs to me.must have been short of news they want us to hear..mb

I know several people whose dogs were lured/attacked by coyotes.

Story is bogus, I think.

This guy knows his dogs! I looked up the Kangal which I was not familiar with. A top pick in many ways for protection and longevity .

I have a scar on my left eyelid from the neighbor’s Dalamation “ Scooter” back in ‘72. We were watching TV and I bumped him while shifting position and it went off on me. 6 stitches in a delicate spot, but I didn’t have any eye damage, so all good.

They should have put him down then and there, as that seemed to be the turning point, as it went absolutely batshït crazy in the years following. A .22 would have been too good for that dog, antifreeze is what it needed.

Great story.

Dogs are great. Life is a lot better with them in it.

My two German wire hairs. They will tear a$$ if someone or something messes with their family.

It's little known that the actual Irish Wolfhound (descended from a breed that actually hunted wolves) went extinct during WWI. Sometime after the war it was realized that there remained not a single Irish Wolfhound, and work to recreate it began.

They gathered as many dogs as they could that appeared to be part Irish Wolfhound, and bred them with such breeds as Scottish Deerhounds, Great Danes, Borzois, and Tibetan Wolfhounds, till they had a line of dogs that looked like the Irish Wolfhound of old, and then standardized the breed under that name.

The original Irish Wolfhound wasn't created like that. It was the result of centuries of breeding together all the best dogs for fighting wolves, i.e., those that proved capable of that job were bred with others who proved capable of it, and eventually a standard line was established, but it was based strictly on performing a particular job, the same way most functional breeds of dog were originally developed.

Something similar was done with the English Mastiff, which also completely disappeared in its pure form during WWI.

Rabbits??

My German Shepard killed a wild dog that approached us while walking. Some dogs just know what’s up.

Our local dog rescue nutty woman acquired a Dalmatian and a Great Dane. They went on a chicken killing spree. I was off on a mission 150 miles from home one day when my 13 year old daughter solved that problem. They were in our front yard chasing chickens.

People tell me me that most of them are genetically messed up from inbreeding just like pit bulls.

Hastings how old is that girl now?
Know more than a few guys who would chase a gal like that till they dropped. Damn few women into today's world have that kinda backbone you are a lucky dad. Good job hastings well done.
Mb

Bad news, she turned 31 in April, is married and has a 7 year old daughter and 2 year old twins (boy and girl). I bought her a Savage 110 plain Jane .243 when she was 9. I had the stock cut down and the terrible trigger brought down to about a crisp 3 pounds, and topped it with a Nikon Monarch variable power. She has killed 22 whitetails mostly bucks with 22 shots and we never kept count of the hogs. She holds the record around here for the largest Russian hybrid hog (a female), but alas we had no scales available. It took a front end loader to retrieve it.

Pitbulls are not genetically messed up. They are less likely to inappropriately attack a human than most common breeds. The problem is that when they do, they go full tilt and do a lot of damage (so you hear about it in the news), but that's what they were bred for, i.e., to do a lot of damage to whatever they are attacking, and not to quit in that effort. Doesn't mean they are genetically messed up. Just means that's what they were bred for, i.e., when they attack something, they do lots of damage and don't quit.

If I had to pick a breed to have a better than average chance of being nuts, it would be the Dalmation or the Cocker Spaniel. I’ve seen really awful examples of both.

This.

My Dalmatians were the meanest dogs I ever kept. Bout caused me litigation a couple times. They just inbred boneheads mostly.

Chased cars, horseback riders, killed every cat, skunk, small deer they could catch. Hell on neighbors’ dogs that ventured over here.

What became of them?

Died of old age

One was rather unusually built, had a bulldog like frame. His pup that I kept from a litter was more hound-frame like.
Both mean as shît and would not listen well.

Caused me to have to get a CT meter so the electric dept would quit macing them. lol
They installed my meter out on the highway.
Had to get all parcels delivered to my dad’s home 3 miles away.
Those particular doggie funerals were short.

Watched a few Pits grow up, every aspect of them resemble a retarded human.

I knew a couple who had a pair of Irish Wolfhounds (faux they may be). I had never even seen one before I went inside their house. I could not believe the size of those dogs. It has been several decades, but as I recall they were about eight feet or more in length from nose to tip of the tail. Maybe more. They seemed to be very gentle and well behaved, but I was only around them for a few hours. I doubt that they live much longer than six or seven years.

Yeah, the Great Dane admixture was used for making the breed very large.

Apples and oranges IMHO.

Pit bulls were carefully bred for a task and as such were a type, rather than a breed, and ruthlessly culled for showing aggression towards humans. Where I’m at nowadays pit bulls are carelessly bred, in people’s backyards. Not much is required of them and bad ones ain’t culled either.

I can’t place sole blame on the AKC but Dalmatians are victims of the AKC mindset, inbreeding for looks over ability, resulting in most of them being worthless today.

No Dalmation dinner today.

Agreed.

Pit bulls to some extent are still breed for type albeit not necessarily as working dogs. There’s a huge range in genes and size and colors from 30 pounds to 80 pounds plus depending on if the breeder wants a more terrier type dog/fur aggressive traditional pit or a “bully XL” type that’s usually more for looks and heavier on the bulldog genes.

A lot of them as you said may come from careless breeding but they do not suffer from a lack of genetic diversity.

I can easily believe that Dalmatians given how few they’ve are and that they all look very similar in size and color and have no working dog traits that are still being breed for are lacking genetic diversity.