[JerseyHighlander]

And to answer your original question, I’m not too far off from Owego,... in Sussex, Passaic, and Morris county in NJ, and Orange and Rockland county in NY I’ve seen coyotes and coydogs for as long as I can remember.

15 years ago we still had a native red fox population, and they were seen often by locals. I haven’t seen a red fox in 6 years and I’ve hiked over 1000 miles in the area. Coyotes wiped out the fox population...

[Doc91678]

I'm only 20 miles from Owego, and I've read that coyotes have been captured in Central Park.
According to the DEC there is no such animal as a coydog. BTW, Sunday morning a group of us using dogs flushed out 6 coyote. I personally dispatched 2 coyote with the 243. Longest shot of the day was 200 yards in Berkshire.