Georgia sheepdog faced off 11 coyotes and killed 8 of them.
John Wiierwille of Decatur, Georgia, has about 300 sheep. He keeps some of them on his farm. Two Pyrenean Mountain Dogs, Casper and Daisy, watch over the sheep in the backyard.
In early November, the first of them had a fight with a herd of coyotes. When it happened, Wiierwille ran outside because he heard two-year-old Casper barking. There were 11 coyotes running around. During a hard fight, the dog killed eight of them and disappeared.
After the fight, Casper ran off. Wierwiller spent two days looking for the hero dog, until he came stumbling back to the farm with his battle wounds in rough shape.
“It looked like a coyote grabbed his skin and peeled it right off,” Wierwiller told the outlet. “He was kinda looking at me like, ‘Boss, stop looking at how bad I look just take care of me.'”
Casper was taken to an emergency veterinary hospital, then transferred to a LifeLine Animal Project clinic for treatment. In a Facebook post, Wierwiller wrote that Casper was a bit disoriented but enjoyed his freedom during the car ride.
“Casper’s wounds are so severe that he is considered to be in critical condition,” he said. “He is a little tentative about everything right now, but he let loose on the ride and barked at just about everything outside the truck and even tried to wag his tail stump… He was clearly feeling a little fiesty (sic). Hopefully everything continues to go well. It was really good to see him acting like himself.”
Veterinarians expect Casper to make a full recovery.