Our Mission: Northeast Tri County Health District works with other entities to assess, protect, preserve and promote the health of the tri-county area and established local policy relating to populations based services in Ferry, Pend Oreille and Stevens Counties.
They use these senses to detect intruders. They bray, bare their teeth, chase, and attempt to kick and bite dogs and coyotes. Some donkeys will also chase deer, bears, strange livestock, humans and other intruders in a similar fashion. Donkeys do not intentionally patrol the pasture looking for intruders.
Coyotes typically attack sheep at the throat, but young or inexperienced coyotes may attack any part of the body. Coyotes usually kill calves by eating into the anus or abdominal area. Dogs generally do not kill sheep or calves for food and are relatively indiscriminate in how and where they attack. Sometimes, however, it is difficult to differentiate between dog and coyote kills without also looking at other sign, such as size of tracks (Fig. 2) and spacing and size of canine tooth punctures.