If the cows lift their head and look his way when he calls, he knows coyotes will be able to hear it from much farther away. Most hunting dogs chase or sniff out game. Coyote dogs act as decoys.

It’s not real. It’s a rubber coyote decoy — one of six deployed across the 18-hole executive course to scare away geese, whose large droppings muck up fairways, greens and golf spikes.