I've always figured nobody could tell when I was carrying. After all, I carry a PM9, deep concealed, about 2:30, below the belt-line, immediately behind my front pocket.

But I was out at the SW Metro training facility, the other day, and shot a few rounds from my carry piece, then cleaned it.

The next day, I was sitting on the couch when my dog Bear (an 11" rough-coated Jack Russell Terrier - some of you folks have met him) jumped up on the couch and became very interested in figuring out what that fascinating smell was.

Clearly fooling him isn't as easy as fooling most people.

On the bright side, a dog doing some crotch-sniffing is unlikely to be perceived as an indication that you're carrying!

are you teling us the hole store

So if he is any thing like my boys, he marked it... "This is mine..."

mostly-

I need a good decoy when i hunt yotes. Let me know where this mutt is and i'll be happy to take him off your hands. Depending on how quick he is and how sharp i am, he may, or may not end up as the snack du jour for old wiley e.

As for marking, he's a JRT - which are a notoriously status-aware breed.

It's not that they're dominant, it's that they care about their status. They'll be alpha, if they can get away with it, or they'll be beta, and challenge for an upgrade every time you start getting lax. They will not be an omega; they'll never be a happy-go-lucky lummox who doesn't give a rip about status.

My Bear and I had a conversation about who was boss, back when he jumped up on my bed while i was changing sheets. Since it didn't smell like me, anymore, he figured maybe it could be his...

As for coyotes - terriers are the most focused and single-minded killers in the animal kingdom. We've bred them for nothing else for so long that they've developed a prey drive that is far beyond anything that occur due to natural selection.

Coyotes are bigger, and heavier. But they kill to eat, and will avoid injury if the odds aren't in their favor. Terriers kill for the joy of killing, and they don't give a damn about injury when there's prey in front of them.

JRTs are too small able to take down a coyote, but they're smart, fast, strong, agile, fearless, and have an amazing bite on them. Take them into the field against coyote, and odds are he'll take off after the coyote the way he'd take off after a rabbit. And he coyote, being the opportunistic coward he is, would take off running.

And that'd be the last you'd see of either of them, unless the JRT was able to bring the coyote to bay. In which case you'd probably find a dead JRT surrounded by scraps of bloody coyote fur.

Or perhaps, the other way round.