This is an awesome story... Boy Scout, Eagle Scout, Air Force Captain, .380 Ruger carrying Texan, Governor Rick Perry shot a coyote while jogging. Here is the article from FoxNews.com.
Perry says he needed just one shot from his laser-sighted pistol to take down a coyote that was menacing his dog during an early morning jog in an undeveloped area near Austin.
Perry told The Associated Press he sometimes carries his pistol, loaded with hollow-pointed bullets, when he jogs on trails because he's scared of snakes -- and that he'd seen coyotes in that area.
When the coyote came out of the brush toward his daughter's labrador retriever puppy on a February jog, he charged it and shot it with his .380 Ruger pistol.
I don't know if this story really happened this way, or happened at all, but it is a really great story. If he did actually come across a coyote during daylight and it didn't run away then that could have been a very bad situation. Because normally you won't even see these animals during daylight and if you do they will run away and avoid you at all cost. So it's very possible that this coyote had rabies or some other issue and Rick Perry and his dog were certainly in danger. So PETA people relax, this animal is a predator and if it had rabies it could have taken down a grown man with no problem.
