Strange Coyote

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Is this coyote pure or a mix of dog. That’s not me in the picture. They killed three that day in Catawba County.

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Got anymore pics of him? He seems to be a little thicker through the body than most of the coyotes I've seen.
 
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My dad killed one like that in Anson county about 6 or 7 years ago.
 
I don’t have anymore pictures. He was running with two natural color cotes. Apparently there has been another black one on the land since this was shot. The white on the chest makes me think he is half dog if that’s possible.
 
BlackGun said:
I don’t have anymore pictures. He was running with two natural color cotes. Apparently there has been another black one on the land since this was shot. The white on the chest makes me think he is half dog if that’s possible.
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If it was running with yotes it needed to be put on the ground.

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We have one here behind the house just like that. Never get a good shot at him, but he’s usually got a couple females with him and I end up getting them. He’s like Casper. In a blink he’s gone
 
Per my wife the Vet, that’s not a coyote (and probably not a coy-dog either). She thinks that it is definitely a dog and appears to have some Malinois in it.
 
Scsmith42 said:
Per my wife the Vet, that’s not a coyote (and probably not a coy-dog either). She thinks that it is definitely a dog and appears to have some Malinois in it.
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I can definitely see the Mal in the face. A friend has 2 Mals so I see some similarities.
 
MacEntyre said:
What no one tells you is that wolf, coyote and dog can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, therefore they are all the same species.
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Yep, and just about all coyotes have dog/wolf genes.

One reason the Eastern coyotes are bigger than their Western counterparts is that on their migration here they interbred with wolves. Leaving the ones we have here as more wolf than their Western kin.
 
As to the wolf, dog, coyote breeding their interactions are one of the strangest things I've see in the woods. We came across a red wolf holdover in the Smokies several years back. He was actually running with 2 small feral dogs. Generally wolves see feral dogs as another food source, so maybe he was keeping them around for snacks. But just across the road was a coyote. That coyote was going nuts. Barking, yapping, pacing around and would not come near that wolf. They can interbreed, and sometimes will. But they are also competitors on the food chain and are more likely to kill or eat each other unless the population numbers are screwed up. And the NPS trapping out most of the red wolves in the Smokies might be why that one was letting the dogs hang around.

As to the pic, I would want to see the tail. The two things I use to ID a coyote in the woods are the tail, and how it's acting. House dogs are just running around like idiots in the woods. Coyotes are always hunting. But if that dog was running with coyotes, put it down.
 
chiefjason said:
...Generally wolves see feral dogs as another food source, so maybe he was keeping them around for snacks. ... They can interbreed, and sometimes will. But they are also competitors on the food chain and are more likely to kill or eat each other ...
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I mean, I think a lot of us have ended up with one of those at least once in our younger days...
 
chiefjason said:
As to the wolf, dog, coyote breeding their interactions are one of the strangest things I've see in the woods. We came across a red wolf holdover in the Smokies several years back. He was actually running with 2 small feral dogs. Generally wolves see feral dogs as another food source, so maybe he was keeping them around for snacks. But just across the road was a coyote. That coyote was going nuts. Barking, yapping, pacing around and would not come near that wolf. They can interbreed, and sometimes will. But they are also competitors on the food chain and are more likely to kill or eat each other unless the population numbers are screwed up. And the NPS trapping out most of the red wolves in the Smokies might be why that one was letting the dogs hang around.
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We had friends that had a 50/50 Wolf/Shepard. She was beautiful..( And not legal in NC, BTW) I was walking her by leash one evening in a neighborhood in GA. A boxer and it's owner came around the corner. I anticipated trouble and took a wrap around the leash. She barely paid it any attention until we were almost on it, across the road. Then she let out a short little grunt and kept walking, not missing a beat. The boxer, on the other hand went to full attention and trotted over to the far side of it's owner as we passed. ;)
 
just like squirrels, they come in different colors. Melanistic just like deer, esp if he was running with 2 other normal colored reddish-tan-blonde coyotes in a pack. Doubtful 2 coyotes will tolerate a mixed-dog breed among them unless it was a female in heat lol.

But yeah their all Canines, and they can all interbreed if they're running solo but pack dynamics keep alot of interbreeding between groups at a minimum.
Well, until you (the USF&W service and Red Wolf Coalition) 'create' a mutt in a lab and then turn him loose on eastern NC......then you get the coywolf (of red wolf fame) aka Admixed canids.

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Looks like a coyote to me. They aren't all the same color. It depends on the location it's found. I've seen the same thing in reptiles, birds, and fish. All the same species of animal, just a little or quite a bit different. You can see it in humans too.
 
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