Gunner and Maggie were 200 yards off the trail running the hare and Sophie was near me. The dogs were burning the hare up and suddenly stopped barking. A second later I heard my female let out an alarm bark (like when somebody is coming up the driveway.) About 10 seconds of silence followed and all hell broke loose! I started on a dead sprint towards the dogs screaming and yelling anything that would come out of my mouth! All I could hear was my dogs yelping in pain and coyote yips.
I got in about 100 yards and my dogs met me with all the hair on their bodies standing straight up. Their hind ends were covered in saliva and they had teeth marks in their hair. I ran them back to the 4 wheeler and checked them over as I loaded them in the box. Maggie had been bitten on the hind end but had no visible wounds. As I loaded Gunner my hand was covered in blood. He had two holes about the size of a dime on his back leg.I rode back to the cabin then loaded Gunner in the truck and brought him to the vet. When the coyote bit him it pulled the skin away of the muscle on his back leg and nearly got his anus. The vet installed a tube under the skin connected to both holes to let puss seep out as the wound heals. He has to have that in for 4-5 days then I can pull it out and let the holes heal on their own. The surgery was $350.
I consider myself very fortunate to be that close to the dogs when fight began. While running hare it isn't uncommon to be 1/2 mile from the dogs for much of the chase. Luckily the fight only lasted 10-15 seconds total.
I am also fortunate that my pup felt the need to be near me at that time. I don't think she would have stood a chance in hell against a yote.
This is the first incident I have had, and I hope it is the last. Next winter I will have to try a little harder to thin some of them out.
Here are a couple pics from at the vets office and the wound with the tube in it.
Here is a pic of Maggie who was attacked but was uninjured.
... a great time bc you can get some rabbits up but a bad time bc coyotes are very territorial this time of year bc of denning... coyotes will travel the rest of the year except for the spring when they are having little ones... this makes them easy to call and very vocal as well... if a dog or dogs get close to a denning area they will for sure get confronted and most likely run off or attacked...most likely you have gotten too close to a den site...... 
