In the last few months, we’ve seen quite a few wild animals attack (humans). That’s the world, hey! A cougar mauled a man in May. A stretch of back-to-back shark attacks in April in West Australia reminded us that the ocean’s not our domain. Bakers gon’ bake, as Taylor Swift might say.
With attacks fresh on the mind, we recently came across this old clip from 2010 of a coyote doing his darndest to make a meal out of this little Chi-Weenie dog named Trixxie. Coyotes are known to prey on small dogs, and since our Senior Editor Alex Haro hangs out with coyotes on a semi-regular basis while his neighbors’ dogs sunbathe on his handbuilt porch, this clip especially hit home with us.
According to the YouTube post, there were no previous coyote sightings or attacks in this area, and Trixxie the chi-weenie (a very fun name for a dog) was left outside at 7 AM for less than five minutes while her owner was using the bathroom.
As you can see, right when we all believed that poor Trixxie’s life would end while being ripped apart by the jowls of this coyote, the neighbor’s medium-sized Rottweiler, Happy, springs into action.
Happy proceeds to thoroughly bash the coyote on the security recording, which resolves a debate we had previously never had aloud: Rottweilers whup up on coyotes.
We imagine that Happy had long adored Trixxie. They had cultivated a loving, neighborly relationship that had not yet been consummated, physically nor verbally. But this. The sight of the chi-weenie being ripped in half by the coyote overcame Happy. Happy, gripped by a blood-boiling violence, seized the opportunity to save his (hopefully) now-wife. And that is the story of Happy and Trixxie and the coyote that tried to end them. Love prevails!
