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Hi, I'm sitting in the middle of a field with a large male golden lab, or that's what he appears to be. Now I know that I'm supposed to put this in the classifieds, but there is a problem, he's a big dog and although he came to me I can't get him in the truck, and if I leave him here the coyotes will be after him again

Do yoh have anything to entice him? Where are you located maybe you csn get some help

Decided that he likely wasn't going to eat me, managed to get him the cab of the truck, and my wife posted something on Facebook, he must of spent the whole night awake, just figured out what dog dead tired means, didn't drive any more than about an 1/8 of a mile and he's started snoring.

lucky day for the dog, met someone who cares. well done

Take them home and feed him and make sure that you post something on to BALA, they look for missing animals and try to reunite found ones with their owners. Thank you for being a rescuer

I could picture it all as you described Don Brown, nicely done!

I'm the grump that's always going after people for always being on their phones but today's things worked out ok.  
Funny how things work though, this turned out ok, but if I had of gotten bitten by the dog the comments would have been along the lines of how stupid can one person be, that being said I believe animals are a better judge of character than most of us humans, and most of them accept good intentions.  
He's back at home, and maybe the run I with coyotes was a learning lesson.

need more people like you.

Any chance he was a wandering farm dog from the area you were in ?  
Any farmyards close to where you were?  
 
Just a thought

He was a farm dog from west of our place, seemed to want to continue on east into the wind, or else the coyotes wouldn't let him go back west, most dogs do make an effort to get back home.

Way to go Don !!

Way to go Don !!

The OP mentioned coyotes were after the poor dog, did you see the coyotes chasing the dog? Is that why you stopped? I am so glad you did stop regardless to see if the dog was alright, some people would have just assumed he was just a farm dog out for a run in the farmers field! I think animals are a great judge of character and they do know shen someone is trying to help. Give yourself a big pat on the back for a job well done, Sir! I hope you have a great day!

Fantastic job Don!  
 
Edited by Mandy6, 2018-05-07 15:45:54

Good job. Thank you for trying to save an animals life.

The night before we heard the cow herd just making a real racket so went and checked just before 11, that was when we first heard the coyotes making a lot of noise by yapping, decided because it was out in the field we wouldn't check.  
The next morning we fed the cows and checked the calves and didn't find any problems, just before heading of, the cows all headed off to the north side of the pasture they were in, so I drove out to just check, that was when I saw the coyotes, but the dog was laying down so I thought it was a calf and went out to try and bring him back. As I drove up the dog headed off to the east because the coyotes were on the west side.  
I guess I might have jumped the gun by coming on here looking for help, but I didn't know the dog and didn't really want to get bit, it didn't take long for him to come to me, but I don't think he's been riding in vehicles because he wouldn't get in the box, or the cab of the truck. First time I tried to lift him he sat down, didn't really feel comfortable grabbing around the backside of a dog I didn't know. I don't have a Facebook account so thought either a call to my wife to post on Facebook or try ebrandon for help. Should apologize to Adam for sort of circumventing the rules, but I had lots planned for the day and just couldn't leave him there.  
Spent well over an hour catching him and getting him back to his owners, ended up being one of those feel good events, so in the end it wasn't wasted time.  
 
Sorry for such a long post, but hope it answers any questions people have.