The Deal With Dogs And Bigfoot...

[NathanFooter]

Stan that is why I stated { for the most part } up above, the barking and giving away the postion is what the sasquatch seem to dislike and is refected in the majority of the reports, if the dog is quiet and does not freak out when they approach I can see a sasquatch not really minding the dog and may even find the tame/calm behavior interesting. I guess I should have said it is more based on the dogs reaction to the sasquatch .

Just my thoughts.

[Guest VioletX]

Stan that is why I stated { for the most part } up above, the barking and giving away the postion is what the sasquatch seem to dislike and is refected in the majority of the reports, if the dog is quiet and does not freak out when they approach I can see a sasquatch not really minding the dog and may even find the tame/calm behavior interesting. I guess I should have said it is more based on the dogs reaction to the sasquatch .

Just my thoughts.

I think my dog has prevented some interesting things from happening to me although I really doubt a Sasquatch is afraid of a dog, it may not like the fact that they give away where they are...

[JDL]

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=5770

[Explorer]

My experience has been just the opposite. I have taken my Karelian Bear Dog to every location that I investigate. Her ears and nose are just phenomenal. Many times she has alerted me to possible activity.

Stan,

Thanks much for sharing your experiences.

This is the value of BFF community, a place where we can hear from a diverse number of people in the field.

This was helpful because I had difficulty accepting Alley's conclusion on dogs and BF as a given.

http://www.bfro.net/...ort.asp?id=5770

Thanks for the link, JDL.

I don't blame BF (or whatever it was) for running away from a pack of wild dogs.

[Guest]

It's interesting to note that humans have recruited dogs for look outs and hunting. BF, being stealthy, should be familair with ALL aninmals in their territory and that includes dogs. I don't think a dog is capable of tracking them.

[Guest DWA]

Dogs and sasquatch don't mix. Neither do dogs and polar bears. Yet fraternisation reports exist for both.

Animals don't always do what we think they will.

[Guest]

^This. According to the following report (if true), Sasquach don't always hate dogs, and even use them as companions. We know baboons keep dogs as pets so why not Sasquatch:

http://www.bfro.net/...rt.asp?id=24776

"Suddenly the rock stood up. It stood up slowly and gracefully. As soon as it stood up the dogs began to run towards it. Not as if to attack it, but as a dog would run toward someone he knew to greet him".

[Guest]

I don't think a dog is capable of tracking them.

A trained tracking dog is perfectly capable of tracking one. Cornering one? Maybe not. I've seen reports of dogs tracking them and getting killed when they catch up.

[Guest DWA]

I'm out in the woods of Ontario. Every day.

My dog is with me. Every day.

I don't believe in bigfoot.

Neither does my dog.

Now those northern rattlers, that's another story.

I live in mink and skunk country. NEVER seen either. Know they're real though.

Just like with sasquatch, i pay attention to the evidence.

Oh. No rattlers in ONT.

[LeafTalker]

^This. According to the following report (if true), Sasquach don't always hate dogs, and even use them as companions. We know baboons keep dogs as pets so why not Sasquatch:

http://www.bfro.net/...rt.asp?id=24776

"Suddenly the rock stood up. It stood up slowly and gracefully. As soon as it stood up the dogs began to run towards it. Not as if to attack it, but as a dog would run toward someone he knew to greet him".

Great report, Didi. Thanks for posting that link.

[Guest]

^This. According to the following report (if true), Sasquach don't always hate dogs, and even use them as companions. We know baboons keep dogs as pets so why not Sasquatch:

http://www.bfro.net/...rt.asp?id=24776

"Suddenly the rock stood up. It stood up slowly and gracefully. As soon as it stood up the dogs began to run towards it. Not as if to attack it, but as a dog would run toward someone he knew to greet him".

There is something very, very eerie about that report, it honestly gave me a chill reading how it 'appeared to move in slow motion' and how the dogs were so accepting of it

[Sunflower]

My St Bernard, Border Collie and little mutt wore a path through my front yard, under my steel pipe fence and to the woods across the road.....every day. They would all go together and use the woods for a bathroom. I only noticed a few times that they came back smelling like skunky, sewer, sweat and crap all at once. It was BAD! Everybody got a bath poste haste. I can't swear it was the hairy guys in the woods that put the funk on them but it was strange.

One other weird thing was that my son's six week old two puppies which were a birthday present from me got taken from the front porch. They could not have gotten out by themselves. The container was three feet high so it was either a hairless person or ???? I don't know.

I think they make pets of dogs at times, maybe even yotes as well, I've heard stories but those people won't talk about it much.

Edited March 9, 2013 by Sunflower

[LeafTalker]

My St Bernard, Border Collie and little mutt wore a path through my front yard, under my steel pipe fence and to the woods across the road.....every day. They would all go together and use the woods for a bathroom. I only noticed a few times that they came back smelling like skunky, sewer, sweat and crap all at once. It was BAD! Everybody got a bath poste haste. I can't swear it was the hairy guys in the woods that put the funk on them but it was strange.

One other weird thing was that my son's six week old two puppies which were a birthday present from me got taken from the front porch. They could not have gotten out by themselves. The container was three feet high so it was either a hairless person or ???? I don't know.

I think they make pets of dogs at times, maybe even yotes as well, I've heard stories but those people won't talk about it much.

I love your story about the adventures of your three "grownup" dogs. That is soooooo cool.

Did the puppies ever come back???????

[ShadowBorn]

Sunflower Your story about the Coyotes I Believe that the younger ones or teens that are grown up might run with the coyotes.Every time that I would go up north I would hear these coyotes seem to run in this one direction and I would hear them yelp but at the same time would hear the owls as well. Well this picture in my mind kept coming of seeing these creatures running with the coyotes as though the two belong.I know that this is speculation and that to prove this I would have to get photographic evidence of them working along side as a hunting party. Just like we are with dogs they could also be with coyotes . I once seen a coyote in Detroit downtown act just like a regular dog playing with other dogs .It was amzing how this female coyote came up to me and tried to interact with me as though she was domesticated. Never seen nothing like that before. Sorry that I can not cut my sentences into paragraph but there seems to be a problem with my keyboard that needs addressing.

[Guest]

Well, I suppose there's exceptions to every rule even in nature, like those polar bears up in Canada who play with sled dogs. Under normal circumstances those bears would be aggressive to those dogs, maybe even eat them and those dogs would be going ballistic at a polar bear in such close proximity, but for some reason both species seem to enjoy each others company.

On the whole, judging from accounts, BF don't like dogs, they will kill them, threaten them, run away from them and eat them, and dogs usually don't like bigfoots, they cower from them and bark at them and try to attack them. But, there do seem to be accounts of the two coexisting peacefully, but I'd say generally speaking the two species don't gel.

On the topic of coyotes, whilst I doubt the BF use them for hunting down deer, the yotes will undoubtedly share a klepto parasitic relationship, avoiding the BF but keeping tabs on them and scavenging on there kills, and BF probably scavenge yote kills as well.