I attended a Game Commission meeting at Elmerton Ave one evening..The speaker was the Pa state trapper.. He explained how he would dispatch a coyote caught in a trap. He said "he'd take his hand and walk it up the back of a coyote in the trap and when he got to the neck he would just snap it.." "Now he said you don't do this dispatching method with the Alpha male or female.". He said "if you start to walk your hand ever so slowly up the backs of the Alpha Male or Female they just bite you"..
When I caught a 32 pound female in a trap she would not even look at me. She did nothing but just sat with her head looking down.. No barks, growls, whines nothing what so ever etc.. I knew that she surely was not the Alpha female..